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Labor Day--Respect for those Who Serve

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Labor Day

Monday September 2, 2018

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The Admiration They are Due

The people who do our labor

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Are the ones who make things go

While its the rich we now favor

The truth of life really isn't so

Without the ones who serve us

We can expect little of the day

They're the ones in who we trust

And often do so with very little pay

If all the wealthy stayed home tomorrow

Nothing much in the world would happen

The loss of their presence cause no sorrow

Not one real need of life would be flattened

If every one who was paid on an hourly wage

At just twenty-five dollars an hour or even less

Stayed at home to express their suppressed rage

We would all find our lives deeply in such distress

When we are left on hold for half an hour

We're at work for the company we called

We accept this as if we lost all our power

When we need to feel more like appalled

We labor subtly for these big companies

So they have less low-paid employment

Cash churners do just what they please

Enjoy lots of governmental entitlement

Those who labor do us great honor

What they get is scarce recognition

Deserve more than a scanty dollar

At least give them our admiration

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