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hopemountain

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39. labor day was always special in my family
Tue Sep 3, 2013, 06:32 PM
Sep 2013

because we are a longtime union working family descended from laborers and farmworkers. i am grateful for my many early union jobs because as a single parent, i earned a bit more than most folks in my neighborhood and was able to provide a good little home for my daughter and i. we had health care, too. it was a fucked up job, but i was willing to be a cog in the wheel to keep a decent roof over our heads, drive a 2nd hand used, but safe vehicle, pay for day care, preschool, tutoring, etc. it's when i left the unions and took a non profit job that our lives became more of a day to day, paycheck to paycheck struggle. but, somehow, despite it all, we made it.

Pretty soon there will be an Obama basher on this thread.... iandhr Sep 2013 #1
You beat me to it ! LOL jaysunb Sep 2013 #2
Its been 10 minutes iandhr Sep 2013 #4
And, Happy Labor Day to you, landhr! Cha Sep 2013 #8
Thank you iandhr Sep 2013 #11
Yep, worked all my life in Labor and now I'm Cha Sep 2013 #13
Without the Labor Movement, my union and the New Deal, I'd be dead now,. Just sayin' freshwest Sep 2013 #16
Happy Labor Day, freshwest! Cha Sep 2013 #17
Happy Labor Day, Jay! Cha Sep 2013 #6
Oh, because.. Cha Sep 2013 #5
Yup iandhr Sep 2013 #7
Nice to have good news about President Obama this week. nt ZombieHorde Sep 2013 #3
Happy Labor Day, ZombieHorde Cha Sep 2013 #9
Thanks! ZombieHorde Sep 2013 #12
Raising the Minimum Wage! sheshe2 Sep 2013 #10
Happy Labor Day, she! A Teddy Kennedy Message from our past.. Cha Sep 2013 #14
He was a great man. sheshe2 Sep 2013 #15
They hate it because they believe many of us were born to be slaves and work for nothing for them. freshwest Sep 2013 #21
Mahalo for that, freshwest! Interesting Cha Sep 2013 #22
Sorry, I didn't spell that right. Plato and Aristotle. Here it is the defense of inequality: freshwest Sep 2013 #23
Right! And, if I hadn't been in such Cha Sep 2013 #31
Not only that, inequality is not an American virtue. Economic justice, full speed ahead. freshwest Sep 2013 #33
LOLZ, at the ADD Cats! Cha Sep 2013 #34
Thom Hartmann's view on ADD: freshwest Sep 2013 #35
Ain't this the truth.. Cha Sep 2013 #36
Thanks, I went to the Lounge. freshwest Sep 2013 #37
"...they want the liberty to own other people as slaves to serve their own interests... SunSeeker Sep 2013 #27
Thanks, SunSeeker! Nice to know who will stand with us instead of RTW Rand, et al. freshwest Sep 2013 #28
Blood, Sweat, Tears and LOVE: freshwest Sep 2013 #18
Don't expect the government or Obama to hand out doc03 Sep 2013 #19
Nevertheless, the Obama Admin and Dems are fighting for Cha Sep 2013 #20
HAPPY LABOR DAY EVERYONE! Raise the minimum wage and TAX THE RICH!!! mountain grammy Sep 2013 #24
Happy Labor Day to you, too! freshwest Sep 2013 #26
HAPPY LABOR DAY TO YOU, MOUNTAIN GRAMMY! I like Cha Sep 2013 #29
thanks, Cha! mountain grammy Sep 2013 #32
Jesse Jackson on Labor: freshwest Sep 2013 #25
Thank you for the vid on Jesse Jackson on Cha Sep 2013 #30
American Labor Day!!!!!!! DevonRex Sep 2013 #38
labor day was always special in my family hopemountain Sep 2013 #39
Wonderful story of your experience, hopemountain! Cha Sep 2013 #40
i raise a cup of tea to you, cha. hopemountain Sep 2013 #41
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