Labor Day on Cape Cod: UMASS and Profiteering
20 years ago, the wise-guys of UMASS came up with an ingenious plan to rid the Cape of those pesky college kids during the most glorious weekend of the season, so they could savor it for themselves.
My neighbor on the not-Great-Island-side-of-Lewis-Bay, is a muckamuck in the office of the President of UMASS. He is down this weeknd, enjoying the holiday, while the students of UMASS are doing the same ... only elsewhere.
Ironic isn't it. UMASS starts its fall semester the week before Labor day, requiring all those kids to leave their summer jobs on the Cape early, leaving all those seasonal businesses stranded for help the last best weekend of the summer.
But not to worry, the patrons from UMASS are still here, like my neighbor from UMASS administration. I wonder if he appreciates the irony. He conscripted the students back to campus just as he was coming back down for the weekend. Probably not, because he still complains about the service around here, (lack thereof) during this weekend. Well, dah.
For years (former State Senator) Henri Raushenbach fought to get UMASS to officially start after Labor Day, so we could keep our seasonal help one more crucial week. Little did we all appreciate who's vacations he was stepping on.
And one more observation from my beach chair this Labor Day weekend.
As I was looking out over Great Island, I heard one of those obnoxious ads by the Alliance (to save the view for the priviledged few) on the radio, repeating the lies about the birds, the fish and the air, but mostly hocking their new tactic; CapeWind stands to make a profit from the project. Holy Wampum Batman!
So now it's about profits. Isn't it strange that this has come down to the capitlists from Osterville, and may I say uber-capitalists, objecting to the capitalist from Bass River making too much money. Didn't Egan make too much money selling computers? Didn't Koch make too much money selling, well, coke? For that matter, isn't Mihos making too much money selling gas and milk? And how about Kurker making too much money selling boats?
I think what the capitalists from Osterville object to most, is that the capitalist from Bass River is making too much money in their backyard. I bet that's what grates them the most. It would be better if they were the ones doing the profiting.
posted by CapePolitics @ 6:57 PM
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It would be great for tourism and America if all schools, from kindergarten to college, started in the week after Labor Day. Think about it--if your kids have cousins or other out-of-state friends, wouldn't it be great if they had a two-month window to visit each other when no one is in school? Why don't all the schools start at the same time? People could plan their work schedules, employers could plan their employee scheduling, and it wouldn't be the current quagmire of different states and counties and school districts and even different schools within the same district having different start times, which can vary widely from year to year even in the same school? Why not just keep it simple?
My son goes to Umass Boston and classes start Tuesday after Labor Day. Maybe those kids who bagged their summer jobs are doing what kids have always done - quit early to party a few days before school starts.
A couple of my summer employees are attending ZooMass in Amherst. The 20,000 students that reside there started last week. The 2,000 at UMass Boston are day students, who do not have a campus to reside in, may very well start tomorrow. Did your son work this weekend?
No one objects to people making money in a Capitalist Society. However, when greed becomes the issue, everyone objects. Its greed. Cape Wind might explore the numerous land based cites that could accommodate a wind farm (down the center of Route 6 for example). It may not accommodate 130 so the profit would be less. Why must these people defile the Sound with ugly poles and windmills? There is enough ugliness in the world. The power will be sold to the grid, it won't be used here on the Cape.
Obviously you have a view at stake... poor baby...
Wind is a natural resource. We NEED natural resources, especially now.
I live very close to the area we're speaking of - but I WANT THIS! Get over your snobbiness and realize that we don't all have "Daddy's Money" to make it go away.
As for schools - MA is SO behind the times it's now pathetic. Everywhere else in this country, it's one week off in March. Us: Feb. & Apr. vacations. Don't believe me? LOOK INTO IT! I've lived elsewhere. Everywhere else: they start before Labor Day.(ME NH TX to name just a couple off my head) Again, it's a few simple mouse clicks away.
But you would rather condemn, and have life lived the way YOU WANT!!
Give it up! Life is not lived onYOUR terms. Wind is not for YOU to control.
Lower Energy. Less reliance on foreign energy. Now THAT will be a beautiful thing!
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