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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWould someone explain this toon, please?
There are a few of us who don't get it or vaguely get it. http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023586012#post5
madamesilverspurs
(15,801 posts)TlalocW
(15,381 posts)He's a union guy out of work, begging by the highway due to the dismantling of unions over the years, and he's ironically wishing people a happy labor day, which we wouldn't have without unions.
TlalocW
calimary
(81,238 posts)here in So Cal anyway. It was crystal clear to me. They're out there every day. And many of them are veterans. Just makes me wanna cry. I had a moment at a stop light to talk to one of them. He was an Iraq veteran. Said he never dreamed in a million years that he'd be out there on a street corner with a handmade sign, begging like this. He said "it's either this or rob a bank." Just made me ill. I gave him whatever cash I had, and knew it would still hardly be enough.
But we've gotta go spend money on bombs for Syria...
FSogol
(45,481 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,001 posts)Control-Z
(15,682 posts)Looked like empty deck chairs behind/beside him. In my own defense, I am viewing from my phone.
LearningCurve
(488 posts)Is that I think the man represents someone who is unemployed, standing on the side of the road, where you often see those in need holding up signs.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,001 posts)LearningCurve
(488 posts)eom
Butterbean
(1,014 posts)Tikki
(14,557 posts)because of the economy or the gasoline prices or fear of unsafe infrastructure (hence overpass/bridge) but
the barrels of ?whatever? at the bottom of the overpass...ick, I don't even want to think about that.
Tikki
ps..the 101 freeway in SO CAL was jammed with vacationeers going North and South...so.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)I think that's the gist of it.
BlueToTheBone
(3,747 posts)and the unions here are almost non existent.