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Dear Editor,
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Choose security question:
- Reynaud’s theorem.
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Theory of relativity.
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Euclid’s postulates.
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User ID, Ray Morris, Morgan Hill
Next year, let the 1 percenters take the day off and see what happens
Dear Editor,
Every May 1, people worldwide take to the streets to mark International Worker’s Day – or “May Day” as we call it. “May Day” dates to 1886 and it’s meaning has changed over time. In today’s times, May Day has been co-opted mostly by Communists who espouse the socialization of the work force, the elimination of social classes, and in many cases to levy their own brands of social justice. In the USA, it’s a day where Communists and Anarchists take to the streets to bring attention to their cause by espousing the elimination of capitalism. They want to eliminate the success of business owners and employment creators and replace them with a central economy controlled by the Government where they believe social justice is more evenly distributed.
In advance of this year’s May Day, the Communists, Anarchists, Occupiers and other miscreants announced plans to disrupt society. They intended to show the “1 percenters” what society would be like if the “99 percenter” took the day off. Instead of being productive citizens, the Occupy movement in conjunction with the heads of the Democratic party and labor unions encouraged union workers, nurses and anybody in the “99 percenters” to take a “one-day strike” to show the rest of society (the “1 percenters”) what a day would be like without them. They didn’t care if lives would be jeopardized by their actions. If it sounds a little contrived like the rent-a-mob demonstrations we see in the lands of tin-pot dictators and Banana Republics, that’s because it is.
When this year’s Occupiers took to the streets, they gave us a clear picture of who they are and what they represent. They marched and carried signs demanding the abolition of capitalism. As they marched, they defecated on lawns, broke windows and vandalized cars. They destroyed and “occupied” property in buildings they do not own, rent or lease. They even tried to “occupy” a police department. They blocked traffic to prevent others from doing what they weren’t: working, being productive and producing goods and services for society. They gave us a clear picture that they do not respect anybody or anything other than themselves. That’s understandable because they’ve also made it clear that they believe in taking everything they get from somebody else – and this makes it impossible for them to value and respect anything that they did not earn through their own hard work.
Next year’s May Day should be a day when the 1 percenters show the Occupiers what a day would be like without them. Seventy-plus percent of all federal, state and local tax revenues come from these 1 percenters, and these taxes pay for all of the public works and government programs that the Occupiers (and the rest of us) depend on.
A day without the 1 percenters would mean a disruption of 70 percent of our economy and everything they pay for; it would be a day without 70 percent of all public goods and services. The poor and “occupiers” would be hurt when 70 percent of all welfare and medicare checks were thrown out. Parents would be forced to take the day off to tend to their kids because 70 percent of all public schools were closed. People’s lives would be lost when 70 percent of all public hospitals, emergency wards and trauma centers were closed. Our public safety would be jeopardized when 70 percent of all police, fire and ambulance services were stopped. Seventy percent of all airports would be without TSA screeners, drug sniffing dogs and weapons inspectors, and 70 percent of our military and our immigration check points (including airports) would be abandoned. Seventy percent of the power grid would be shut down, and 70 percent of all running water would stop flowing. If all of the 1 percenters took the day off, all of their businesses would shut down and their employees would spend a day without pay. But there is at least one upside in all of this: Seventy percent of all college grant research money would be cut off, and we’d have one less day where these college professors (paid with the money of the 1 percenters) would have to indoctrinate the younger generations with their failed socialist ideals.
The Occupy movement and its members give nothing to society except problems, whereas the 1 percenters pay 70 percent of the bills that keep this nation functioning smoothly. When the Occupiers take a day off, nothing is missing from society because they don’t produce anything beneficial to society. But when the 1 percenters take a day off, all of society would actually shut down because they produce 70 percent of everything our society consumes.
Robert R. Collins, Morgan Hill
