A holiday for Cesar Chavez?

Sure, I signed that petition. We need more holidays. Too bad they usually just end up being holidays for government employees and bankers, however.

Obama has talked a bit about political resentments rooted in scarcity. The advances for one group can be seen as sacrifices for another unless we figure out how to make it a "win win" for everyone.

Scarcity: There's only 365 days in the year. How many holidays can we afford and still "get the job done?"

There's a relatively new holiday for Martin Luther King. Some still resent this. Cesar Chavez Day would mean something to Hispanic Americans, also to labor movements.

How about a holiday for Chinese immigrants? Laotians? Gay people?

A politics of scarcity might worry about too many immigrants coming to America. Scarcity of land.

How about enough days in the calendar?

Still, I'm for more holidays. Americans tend to be overworked.

Here in the Bellingham area, people joke that "every other day is a Canadian Holiday."

Yes, there are a lot of Canadians who come down and shop in our stores. It's not always a holiday for them. Often they just dash down here after work, but Canadian holidays can mean great business for retail stores in Whatcom County.

We can use a few more holidays on this side of the border.

Here we are, hard at work in the somewhat "blue state" of Washington where our economy is still fairly strong.

More of America, who's now slipping into recession could turn "blue state" for "the prosperity from innovation," but it's also "advantage of a dropping dollar." Washington State benefits from an export economy which goes well with a weak dollar; for now at least.

To our south, Seattle's economy is still rolling due to export industries such as Boeing and Microsoft becoming more competitive on world markets as their products are priced in weak dollars.

Here in Bellingham, the dropping US dollar has made Canadian money worth more. We benefit from cross border retail.

Still, we're working, but it can feel like accomplishing little. Just more stores selling bricabrac and low wages. Building more "retail sprawl" in the county.

Hey, it's jobs.

Might as well have more vacations and holidays.

Too bad so many workers don't even get the holidays we recognize now, down here in USA. Veterans often work on Veteran's Day, unless they work for a bank or government. In the private sector, it can be "business as usual." "24 / 7."

Someone suggested Veteran's Day should really be a day off for veterans. A day off, whatever sector they work in. Not just a holiday for government employees.

So, a holiday for Cesar Chavez of farm worker fame?

Might as well, but let's try to make it "win win" for all.

My favorite quote from the Work Less Party of Canada is, "Workers of the world relax."