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America has no culture, they said. We are accused of being pompous, overweight and divided. We've begun to embrace and even institutionalize mediocrity. There's truth in those critiques. At the root we have forgotten who we are.
This Labor Day recall the Appalachian coal towns. The company owned the mine, the houses, the store and the doctor. It paid in scrip, good at one store. Theirs.
A man could work there his whole life and never be free to leave. Not chains. Debt.
Socialism is that, country sized.
Ask your kids this at dinner today:
If somebody else owns your house, your store and your paycheck, are you really free?
Even if they're nice about it?
That sums up Labor Day.
Tell the kids, this is more than a BBQ. It's not about the end of summer. Labor Day is about honoring individual hard work and keeping the fruits of your own labor. We celebrate free markets and the abundance they produce.
I was in DC last week and went to the Smithsonian National American History Museum to take pictures with my book. I was so disappointed. The building is boring. You can barely read the name carved in the stone (that’s the blank looking wall in the background). There’s some faded,
sad, blue and yellow branded signs on the mall side that say Behring Center. While I applaud that man’s $80M donation, our country never should have sold the naming rights to our history museum, this diluting the brand.
We should cherish our history, and display it







