Would someone explain this toon, please?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

There are a few of us who don't get it or vaguely get it. http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023586012#post5

[madamesilverspurs]

1. Count me among the puzzled.

[TlalocW]

2. My guess is...

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]

9. That's where we see a LOT of people begging - at onramps and offramps to the freeways

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]

3. You don't have the ubiquitous panhandlers standing at each interesection with "out of work" signs?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. It's not an intersection, at least not that I can discern. nt

[Control-Z]

12. I thought he was on a ship! Lol.

Looked like empty deck chairs behind/beside him. In my own defense, I am viewing from my phone.

[LearningCurve]

4. My reading of this

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]

7. I don't see a side of a road. I see something that might be a bridge or a baseball park. nt

[LearningCurve]

10. I see it as an overpass

eom

[Butterbean]

6. It appears to be a panhandler near an overpass, holding a sign. n/t

[Tikki]

8. Best I can come up with is: Nobody can afford to go on a vacation trip over Labor Day...

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]

11. He's out of work.

I think that's the gist of it.

[BlueToTheBone]

13. This from the very right wing Arkansas Democrat Gazette

and the unions here are almost non existent.