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In article <31DC866F.2885@hooked.net>, Nosnag Selrahc <cganson@hooked.net>
wrote:

> Brad Falk wrote:
> 
> > Has it occurred to you that some people might not want the day off?
> 
> I agree. Why have "National Holidays" at all? It's tyrannical.
> 
> > Many hourly employees do not get paid holidays, and that day off means
> > less income for food and bills.
> 
> I like to work EVERY DAY. Especially saturday and sunday.
> Everybody should be an hourly employee.
> And I don't like the child labor laws either.
> 
> > July 4th is only a holiday for
> > salaried employees and those in unions.
> 
> I hate unions and worker mollycoddlers like you, Leroy.
> 
> > Have youo ever lived in a country where retail hours are regulated
> > by the government? Let me tell you it is hell.
> 
> Government is the true Satan, yes.
> They pretend to help the people, but only employers can do that.
> 
> > If you work, you
> > have to spend your lunch hour shopping because all the stores are
> > often closed by the time you get off or get home.

etc. etc., 


Interesting...

have you ever noticed how aparent reality gets twisted over time by those
who have never considered how we got where we are?

I am sympathetic to anyone who, through the selection of their employer,
is found to be in a position where they cant enjoy their every whim and
desire.  Make no mistake, your employment is voluntary.  If you dont like
the conditions you're in then go get a job somewhere else � or better
still, start your own company and treat your employees the way you think
is proper.

And that IS the answer to this controversy...

In the past, there were no such thing as paid holidays, period.  Unions
notwithstanding, over time some employers began to offer benefits to their
potential employees as an enducement to hire them.  The practice began
amongst professional and salaried types first, because the demand for such
persons exceeded the supply.  Skilled workers in the various crafts
followed, bolstered by their union representation who found themselves in
superior bargaining posions from time to time.

Now, so far this is all pretty basic free enterprise, supply and demand,
let's shake hands because we're both happy kind of stuff.  BUT...  Sooner
or later someone who hasn't looked at the facts or thought out the
situation comes along and, seeing that others getting goodies, and without
considering that some form of value exchange has occured, DEMANDS the same
deal for themself!  

From the wings, there are, of course, always, the pandering, usually
liberal polititians (I say usually, but they're all guilty � even
conservatives) willing to introduce legislation to institutionalize that
which was put forth and agreed to in good faith by PRIVATE PARTIES who
were mutually benefitted and perfectly happy their deal.  Then the media,
in the name of the news, fans the embers into flames without substantive
discussion of objective facts, but instead with emotional quips and
sound-bites � strictly to gain the ratings needed to charge their
advertisers an extra buck.

There is no right to PAID holidays...  It sure is good to have them, and
even better that they are so normal as to be taken for granted.

There is no right to free health care; although that is now being
debated.  If it ever happens, short of becoming a centralized
authoritarian or totoltarian society, American business will be destroyed
as we know it and no person will ever be able to negotiate as an
individual for a better work deal again.

Many businesses fail to look beyond the end of their proverbial noses to
see where their policies for short-term gain harm their long-term outlook,
and they are to be condemned for that.  Many business fail to recognize
the value of the work of their employees, too, but you cant force them
without throwing something else out the door. Such businesses often pay
the price in the long run (which is how unions got started) when their
best employees get fed up and leave, or their greed overcomes their
ability to remain competitive, but the same can be said of many
employees.  It's easy enough to understand why so much that was
manufactured in the USA in the past is now made elsewhere. 

The "I want what you have" attitudes of so many people are well defined in
Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged," which is amazingly appropriate these days. 
Also, a look at de Toqueville's "Democracy in America" may help shed new
light on truths and realities about American thinking, government and
business that have been forgotten by too many people.