Labor Pains

The U.S. is poised for another long holiday weekend – Labor Day – where the last gasps of summer are heard from children readying to return to school, others are off to college, and parents may simply be gasping from the lack of jobs.

In honoring “Labor” during a time of zero employment growth, I suggest we change the focus of “Labor” away from jobs and celebrate the unending baby parade I wrote about the other day, with “Labor” as an obvious clue to where most of the future and current action on that word is/and will be felt.

Could the times be more confusing and anxiety-producing for those without a job? Well, yes, we could be in a worse situation with a Great Depression II. In truth, many of us are already having our own Great Depression with Mr. Obama apparently caving to the GOP at every turn, continuing to send the message via his press secretary as well as through his own lips that he hopes the Congress will return from their summer vacation filled with the lofty spirit of compromise.

Pardon me, sir, but on what planet are you living? Already you have been the first president in history to be denied an opportunity to speak to a joint session of Congress on the day and time you requested because The Speaker of the House and his forked-tongue colleagues are still kicking dust in your face.

The continual, escalating lack of respect the GOP/Tea Party have shown toward you and your office is beyond a disgrace, and yet, in some kind of alternate universe you choose to take what some may call “the high road” and refuse to kick back. Many supporters consider your actions not a high road at all but a low road to misery for all. You want to get Congress on the move toward jobs? Hah! Most are only on the move toward ruining our country through ensuring there will be no new jobs so that you will fall on your face.

Such wimpish behavior is unbecoming of the President of the United States, and such obstructionistic pit-bull machinations of the GOP is unbecoming of a group of supposed legislators whose only desire is to deny Obama a second term. Now, does anyone really believe the GOP will do a thing to create jobs? Hell no. Let’s run the car further into the ditch so that next year whoever wins the GOP nomination to run for Prez will have a wonderful chart or ten to point to with regard to unemployment numbers and more political football to distract from healing the deep wounds of a country in economic crisis.

The goal for them is simple: Win back the White House. Period. This knowledge is not new. Writers/bloggers, opinion-makers, radio and TV news hosts have been discussing the agenda of the GOP for quite some time. Now that we are on the brink of yet another election year, the stark reality of how solid the wall Obama faces has come into view with a startling slap in the face.

And while many of us wring our hands in horror at what we’ve witnessed in Washington DC this year in particular, very few Democrats are stepping up to remedy the situation because, like me, they are not in agreement with how President Obama continues to hand the keys to the country’s car to his enemies. So, most remain silent and rely on the pundits to grouse about Obama while they step back and shrug.

Now, today, following the brew-ha-ha of yesterday’s focus on Obama being denied Wednesday evening for his jobs speech in Congress, we hear and read about yet another GOP-pressured Obama “cave-in” concerning EPA regulations. (See What the.... )

What happened, Mr. President? Where did the man of inspiration and hope and change go? I’d like to find him again. So would your base. If you don’t start digging your heels in against your foes, you will lose the election next year when Democrats don’t turn out at the polls, and the country will end up with another Republican in the White House…but this time, the stakes are even higher for a social and financial backward slide as the radical, extreme agendas of the new GOP will make George W. look like a reasonable and sane leader.

And that is something frightening to consider.