Tuesday Toon Roundup 2- Labor Day

[n2doc]

[valerief]

1. I'm so old I remember when people didn't have to work on Labor Day. nt

[Greybnk48]

3. Me too. Remember when stores were closed

on all major holidays so that people could be with their families. We always felt bad for Police, Firefighters and Nurses/Docs because they didn't get the days off.

[TheMadMonk]

11. And whilst the fat cats capitalised on it, it was ordinary, lazy, greedy little oiks...

• ...like you, me and the bird down the block who actually made it happen.
  • When WE demanded that those shops be open for our convenience all day Saturday.
  • Then limited Sunday trading.
  • All day Sunday.
  • Late trading on ALL weekdays.
  • 24 hour trading.
  • We demanded.
  • They delivered.
• Fuel for our holiday trips, no matter what time we elected to begin our journey.
• Instant food for the screaming kids in the back.
• Something to burn up that sugary energy.
• Every weekend has two days in it, but for some reason, a midweek public holiday is the perfect time to get started on that project you've been putting off for so long. Which means of course Home Depot has to be open.

I remember as a child wanting all of those thing above which affected me,and that childish feeling that it was a pretty stupid way to arrange a world, where when people had the free time to do stuff, they couldn't because there was nothing open to buy whatever it was you needed to do stuff with.

Well we got our childish wishes, and as every parable, fable, folk tale, etc. will tell us, the results were, as per Karmic SOP, disastrous.

What we demanded of the business community ie. more service, the business community demanded of us.

[planetc]

2. all toons

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023586001

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023586012

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023586025

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

4. Thanks for the good work doc !

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. I'm not getting the fifth one (by Deering). What's it referring to?

(aside from the obvious flag and Labor Day sign)

Is the background supposed to be a bridge or a baseball park?

[Mnemosyne]

6. That one puzzles me also. nt

[FredStembottom]

7. Something missing?

Maybe words were cropped off the bottom?
I dunno.

[Blue_Tires]

8. I think on another day his sign says "looking for work"

he's a day laborer -- At least that's my read of it

[Jim Lane]

9. I think it refers to the idea of poor people sleeping under bridges.

I saw the background as a bridge; on top of it is a stylized highway sign, showing just the arrows that tell drivers which lane to be in for each destination.

On that reading, the reference is to a famous quotation from Anatole France: "La majestueuse égalité des lois, qui interdit au riche comme au pauvre de coucher sous les ponts, de mendier dans les rues et de voler du pain." The most common translation: "In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread."

[Gothmog]

10. Thank you for the Cartoons