Comments for Labor Day 2010 at http://www.thecatholicthing.org , comment 1 to 3 out of 3 comments http://www.thecatholicthing.org Thu, 20 Jun 2013 02:48:03 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2010/labor-day-2010.html#comment-4824 Robert Royal explains philosophically to a great extent why American business and labor have lost their way. One concrete example, however: Some years ago before GM collapsed into bankruptcy it was in contract negotiations with the UAW. Catholic members of the union discovered that their representatives had negotiated a "benefit" that would have provided for abortions. The Catholic employees protested and both the UAW and GM backed down. I wonder if they would do so today emboldened as they are by this president. Neither unions nor companies respect any longer the privacy and the beliefs of working people. That has been my very personal experience as well. Labor Day means little to me now. - Graham Combs Tue, 07 Sep 2010 17:06:04 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2010/labor-day-2010.html#comment-4818 Another excellent article. This nation (and the whole world) needs, I think two things: (a) to be "soaked" in prayer for an awakening of ite people the reality of what is required to make free societies, i.e. nations, work, and (b) exposure to the ideas of four thinkers who, I believe, understood that reality better than any others of the past one and a half centuries—the Friedmans (Milton and Rose), F. A. Hayek, and Ludwig von Mises. Without grasping the fundamentals which they explicated, there is very little hope that the electorate can mount a sufficiently cohesive electoral resistance to the insanity toward which our nation is steadily advancing. Pax et bonum, Keith Töpfer - Martial Artist Mon, 06 Sep 2010 11:33:48 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2010/labor-day-2010.html#comment-4817 Wonderful essay, Mr. Royal. Pieper is one of my favorite philosophers. I know that when I pick up anything by him, I will be nourished. - Emina Melonic Mon, 06 Sep 2010 06:36:50 +0100