Holidays

You know, it used to be that a federal holiday meant everyone in the national except essential personnel had the day off.

Like Thanksgiving and Christmas.  National holidays.  No one really works.

It used to be that February was the best month in the year because it had a work holiday (Valentine's Day- when everyone was more focused on diabetic levels of candy than making any progress on work and school), and two federal holidays, which were always back to back Mondays.

I think it was Columbus Day that was really the turning point for refusing to accept national holidays.  Some people strongly felt that Columbus Day was a travesty and that is was morally wrong to celebrate a day that resulted in mass extinction of races of people.

To those patriots, I'd like to bring up Memorial Day and the Fourth of July- two national holidays that highlight and promote man-on-man cruelty.

But, back to my point:  refusing to honor a national holiday.

It seems that, once again, the power does not lie with the people.  Nor with the government.  It lies with the owners of oligomonopolies that can decide to refuse federal will.

After all, we all know:  money is power.

It certainly isn't the people.