Let There Be a Right to Earn a Living

September 8, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is labor in honor of Labor Day, which was celebrated on September 3^rd.

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A Labor Day poem about the benefits of guaranteed work over welfare:

Let there be a right to earn a living!

All who wish to work should have the chance.

Bad times come and go with circumstance:

Ought we then be hiring or just giving?

Rest assured, there's always much to do:

Demand's determined more by funds than need.

All we give away is wealth we bleed,

Yet work for wages would that wealth renew.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Labor

9/3: Labor Is a Blessing and a Curse

9/4: Labor Is Identity

9/5: Labor Is the Burden of Our Being

9/6: Let Every Worker Earn a Living Wage

9/7: Let the Market Set the Price of Labor

9/8: Let There Be a Right to Earn a Living