MAYDAY MAYDAY MAYDAY (What a difference a year makes?) 
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 Other than teachers and unionized public service union employees who surrogated their vocal cord-stretching to professioal Big Labor in Wisconsin this past winter, the overall workers' situation in the USA (or lack thereof) has remained status quo since May Day 2010. In other words (what else is new?) organized "workers" who still have jobs wish to toil less for bigger paychecks while those who have been forced into unemployment or under-employment wish they had it as good as disgruntled "workers" and their unionista mouthpieces.
With the upcoming commencement address season and the campaign-ops that such dates will provide, it will be very interesting to see how your Dear Leader spins "there ain't none" into a moralistic lecture on the glorious future in store for PC young folks with little else but career-ops on their minds. |
At the rate we're going here in the USA, the last people who need to be out proving their solidarity with the rest of the world's socialists are our own so-called progressives.
Amusingly, during last year's May Day celebration, along with protests over mistreatment by any number of capitalistic entities from Big Global Business to civil rights-abusing governments and financial institutions, we were also treated to the shrill sound of lefties maligning the very regime that they themselves helped to install.
Despite sprinting through his agenda to the extent allowed by fellow Democrat socialists Obama is getting called out by the even-farther-left for dragging his feet on any number of promised "reforms and overhauls" from militarism to gay rights to global warming and all things green. Of course, they're not upset enough -- at least not yet -- to simply call him a liar like most everyone else does.
As traditionally angry as lefties tend to be on May Day (a/k/a International Workers' Day) much of the anger thus far has been over the policies of their too-slow-to-redistribute Dear Leader. Unlike the cry from the rest of us there is little demand for the creation of jobs or for the transparency that was promised during the first segment of his never-ending campaign.
Arizona legislation-inspired immigration protest and meaningless whining over labor union "rights" helped to kick last year's May Day circus performances up a notch. But you can hear commies around the world yawning over the protests here in the USA and whispering to each other that: "Those wannabe socialist 'progressives' in Amerika never had it so good."
Meanwhile, at the University of Michigan's commencement in Ann Arbor, Barack Obama made a classic out-of-both-sides-of-his mouth speech to career start-challenged graduates. He pontificated about his vision of how important government is to all of us and how we should all love government and work to help government to help all of us; hardly a socialist theme to progressives.
In one breath he urged both sides in the political debate to tone it down:
"Throwing around phrases like socialists and Soviet-style takeover, fascists and right-wing nut may grab headlines but it also closes the door to the possibility of compromise. At its worst, it can send signals to the most extreme elements of our society that perhaps violence is...justifiable."
In the next:
"[Politics] has never been for the thin-skinned or the faint of heart...if you enter the arena, you should expect to get roughed up."
Then back to:
“If you’re someone who only reads the editorial page of the New York Times, try glancing at the page of the Wall Street Journal once in awhile. If you’re a fan of Glenn Beck or Rush Limbaugh, try reading a few columns on the Huffington Post website. It may make your blood boil. Your mind may not be changed. But the practice of listening to opposing views is essential for effective citizenship."
In other words, it was the usual 31 minutes of "do as I say, not as I do" delivered via teleprompter with about as much talk about jobs as was heard from the rest of the world's socialists on their International Workers' Day
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