There is no more settled principle than the virtue of the laborer. And no greater self-congratulation than we have ended child labor. So when we celebrate Labor Day we congratulate ourselves on the wonderful things we have done to protect working people from exploitation and oppression, and we also congratulate ourselves that our children no longer have to go out to work. I'm all in favor of work, myself. But I want to remind you of the novelty of work as a Good Thing. Eric Hoffer in The Ordeal of Change: In practically all civilizations that we know of... work was viewed as a curse, a mark of bondage, or, at best, a necessary evil. But not to worry, our reactionary liberal friends are working hard to re-indict work. Did not Nancy Pelosi recently extol ObamaCare as a way for photographers and artists to quit their day jobs? In our society, it is only the responsible middle class that believes in work. The creative class and the underclass have already reverted back to...(Read Full Article)