Happy Union Thug Day! - Updated

My gift to you: An excuse to start drinking right now.

Roy Edroso has a round up of fReichtard musings on The American Working Man and how he should be ground up into hamburger now that his corporate masters no longer want him. Or something. Here’s an excerpt from something called Tim Cavanaugh:

Finally Cavanaugh got to the real reason Gummint shouldn’t extend unemployment benefits: “We’re out of money. So yes, as heartless as it sounds, we should be cutting unemployment even to those fantastically goodhearted people throughout this stout land who are pure as the unsunned snow yet really can’t find a job. It’s not tough love; it’s sad love.”

Happy Labor Day!

p.s. ~~This post seems to be in need of a YouTube. Any suggestions for a song to honor the working stiff?~~ Thanks for the suggestions.

p.p.s. ~~Anyone who suggests Seger’s “Like a Rock” will be first up against the wall come the revolution~~ Maybe if we changed the name to “Day of thanks to the people who do the shit that makes life cushy for the rest of us,” the fRighties would StFu.

Posted by Hunger Tallest Palin on 09/06/10 at 06:57 AM • Permalink

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Maybe the Dead Kennedy’s cover of the Johnny Paycheck classic, “Take This Job and Shove It”? Admittedly, it wasn’t their best work, though…

Comment by Betty Cracker on 09/06/10 at 07:38 AM

I nominate Paul Butterfield’s “Work Song”—either the classic LP version or the totally fucked-up two-part live tape (here and here).

Comment by StrangeAppar8us on 09/06/10 at 08:27 AM

And you know what? Fuck Beck and Palin and the rest of these Accidental Millionaire Shitheads who are trying to criminalize the unemployed, discredit every post-Dickensian act of collective social responsibility as an “entitlement” and cast every sane regulatory restraint on Darwinian Capitalism as “thuggery.”

The only Thugs I know call themselves Christians, Patriots and Fiscal Conservatives. And Beck’s call to embrace Faith, Hope and Charity is nothing more than the Comforting Piety of people who’ve found that you can bribe your own Conscience for a fraction of the cost of operating a functional Social Safety Net.