National Indian-Italian-Viking Do Nothing Day

	The Columbus Day issue isn't merely a dispute among the competing
	claimants to the discovery of the Americas the Italians versus the
	Vikings versus those Asians who crossed the land bridge and became what
	Columbus stupidly called Indians.

	Most of all, the Columbus Day dispute is between the bureaucrats and the
	general populace those who take the day off as a paid holiday and those
	who go to work so they can pay the wages of government employees who
	don't work that day.

	It should not be known as Columbus Day, for the man who allegedly
	discovered America.  It should be known as Government Employee Day, for
	the slickers who discovered the free ride.

	The people as a whole should be fair and generous employers, just as
	they would like their own employers to be.  But that doesn't mean that
	public employees should receive benefits over and above those granted to
	the general populace.

	Columbus Day, for instance.  Practically the only people in America with
	that day off Monday were some (though not all) public employees.  But
	race has nothing to do with it, though many ethnic leaders pretend
	otherwise.

	The truth of the matter was visible the other day when some Fort Hall
	Indian Reservation leaders in southern Idaho noting that America was
	inhabited long before Columbus "discovered" it also mentioned they would
	not observe Columbus Day.  Instead, they observed Indian Day, the last
	Friday in September.
	
	Those Indian bureaucrats observed it by taking that day off while
	Indians employed in the private sector went to work as usual.

	What a crazy place Columbus or somebody else discovered.