thanks, a GOOD read .. "May 19", the next 'not mates' date, eh .. just ooi, did you know ex Americanization Day is now Loyalty Day, Law Day, and in Hawaii Lei Day .. lol ..
International Workers' Day [ two bits ]
In the United States, efforts to officially switch Labor Day back to the international date of May 1 have not been successful. In 1921, following the Russian Revolution of 1917, May 1 was promoted as "Americanization Day" by the Veterans of Foreign Wars and other groups in opposition to communism. It became an annual event, sometimes featuring large rallies. In 1949, Americanization Day was renamed to Loyalty Day. In 1958, the U.S. Congress declared Loyalty Day, the U.S. recognition of May 1, a national holiday; that same year, U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower proclaimed May 1 Law Day as well.
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On May 1, 2012, tens of thousands marched in the streets of New York and around the US to commemorate May Day as the worker's holiday and to protest the dismal state of the economy, the growing divide between the rich and the poor and the status quo of economic inequality. Members of Occupy Wall Street and labor unions held protests together in a number of cities in the United States and Canada on May 1, 2012 to commemorate May Day
Labor Day is an American federal holiday observed on the first Monday in September, that celebrates the economic and social contributions of workers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_Day
typically it's bloody inconsistent in Australia ..
Celebrating the Australian labour movement and specifically the achievement of a working day limited to eight hours, the Labour Day public holiday is fixed by the various state and territory governments, and so varies considerably. It is the first Monday in October in the Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales and South Australia. In both Victoria and Tasmania, it is the second Monday in March (though the latter calls it Eight Hours Day). In Western Australia, Labour Day is the first Monday in March. In both Queensland and the Northern Territory, it is the first Monday in May. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labour_Day#Australia
Sorry to waste your time .. just wondered if there was anything more significant about May 19 ..
A mensch, at least as I was taught the term, is someone who takes responsibility for his actions, including his mistakes. Alas, menschlichkeit is a rare virtue in modern America, certainly in the political sphere, where nobody ever admits being wrong about anything.
Bartlett’s essay only drives home, of course, how very few economists — whether in the policy/think tank world or in academia — have been willing to do the same.
You have to wonder in particular about the prominent economists who threw their support behind Mitt Romney in the late unlamented campaign. They have to have known that he was talking nonsense, that his numbers didn’t remotely add up; and some of them made what sure look like patently disingenuous arguments about taxes, the business cycle, and more. Was it a case of political allegiance trumping professional standards? Or was it personal ambition above all?
And no, it’s not symmetric: Obama and his people do play some number games, but not to anything like the same degree — it’s more about packaging than about trying to tell a fundamentally false story.
Anyway, I have in the past been a bit hard on Bartlett, wondering why it took him so long to see the obvious. But never mind that: he has shown character, in a nation where that is hard to find.
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