Well, jack, it's more than the security they had before they organized to get better wages and benefits so they didn't have to live from crumbs dropped from the hands of their employers as charity.

The majority of people work for someone else. The majority does not have the independence and comfort that you have described here as yours. The majority as employees built the US to be the envy of the world.

That their jobs are being lost---"because you work for someone else"---is not because they made poor choices in careers. It's an indictment of societies where common people have little or no influence over the capricious forces controlling their lives.

To be more definitive on security, we're obliged to recognize the thousands of men and women employed in our armed forces, sacrificing their lives, some for a better life, better education, some for something as intangible as an ideal.

They don't have the luxury of you and I to cavalierly take a day off. If we are to believe our president and prime minister, they sacrifice to make it possible. They may also land on the street with "untransferable skills."

Those who work for someone else made the United States of America. I am proud of them.