Happy Government Workers Holiday!

Or more appropriately, Happy Government Workers and Intimidated Businesses Day!

I admire Martin Luther King as an exceptional American who helped our country come around the corner to repair the damage caused by slavery. But this holiday is a joke.

I think Dr. King would have been pleased with the ways that the doors of opportunity have opened to people of all stripes who, until he forced the country to face the problem in the sixties, found those doors closed more often than not.

But I suspect Dr. King would have been disgusted with what many of  the most obvious heirs to his struggle have done with the prize he bequeathed them, including some who marched with him. The civil rights struggle has degenerated into a farce where underachievement is championed and overachievement is denigrated. For a man of achievement and a man of the people like Dr. King, it would bring tears to his eyes to see the headlong rush into welfare state dependancy to which such a large proportion of the black community has been led by the likes of Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and Barack Obama.

I will celebrate Dr. King's legacy today by keeping my hindquarters and those of my employees at work. In a fully integrated workplace, by the way--one of choice, not of government mandate.