Newspaper reports on the Labor Day parade Downtown noted that something was missing from the march: spectators.  In fact, people walking in the parade outnumbered people watching.  What gives?

 

Was it the economy? One union official flippantly noted the bad economy and remarked that people who would normally be there were probably out looking for jobs.  Was it the weather?  We can rule that one out as Monday stood in stark contrast to the 2009 affair when it was noted "the cool, drizzly weather appeared to thin the parade crowd considerably".

 

Or could it be a sign of taxpayer disenchantment with unions and their never ending quest to make government bigger, more inefficient and costlier?

 

Except for union members and their immediate families and the hardest of the hard left, labor's all out support of Obamacare, stimulus spending to save government jobs, card check, and higher taxes on the national level and the presence of their influence in state and local policy including the lack of Right to Work or prevailing wage reform, continuing threats of teacher and transit strikes, and opposition to outsourcing and privatization is finally getting through the public's consciousness as being a major cause of the ongoing funk in the economy.