For Labor Day the President
Did
Not Use the Power of His Office
Our President has the power to bomb our way to an end of
terrorism and a beginning of building off shore
democracies wherever their absence is a proven real
threat to the survival of America and the human race.
Within our shores, the President has less power to
destroy our enemies and power to spend on our own
democratic system unless Congress joins him in the
project.
But the President has unlimited power to explain to the
American people how full employment in producing the
necessities of a democratic life for the nation and its
people can create more than enough wealth to justify
paying its cost.
The President on this labor day explained only that we
were not less than two trillion dollars short of any
reasonable performance IF we are to resume our role as
the world's great5est manufacturer. He did not lay out a
course of action, as President Roosevelt did when we
prevented totalitarian aggression from ending
civilization for all time.
We are not faced with totalitarian aggression at the
moment. But in January 1944 President Roosevelt warned
that we would be IF we failed to enact the rules for a
bill of labor and economic rights and the means to pay
for it with very hard work with our hands and with our
head and heart.
It is not too late for the President to endorse all that
World War II was fought for. It is not too late for the
President to see hard work, by hard intellectual and
other forms of labor, as what he must call for to bring
the changes to our systems that compelled us to elect him
to the highest office on Earth.
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