Labor Day weekend has been chock full of festivals, from chicken flying contests to wing eating contests, and Monday the parades begin. One of the largest is the West Indian Day Parade in Brooklyn. This year, the parade marks it’s 42nd anniversary of celebrating the Caribbean and West Indies.

Thousands of marchers and musicians and most importantly, Caribbean chefs will be there to welcome you.

As for the schedule, the parade begins at 11 a.m. at Utica Avenue  and will march to Grand Army Plaza along the Eastern Parkway.

The headline in my local newspaper today reads: "Jobless must set sights lower."

I wouldn't be surprised if your local newspaper or radio station has a similar story today. This is the kind of sensational angle the media loves to focus on during all types of holidays. For example, a Christmas day massacre or a Halloween candy poisoning will get endless attention by editors, especially in this Internet age where all most media care about is how many times you guys click on a story.

But on this Labor Day, a time when we're supposed to be celebrating the advances workers have achieved in the workplace, let's not just roll over and accept what has become the standard employer line -- you have to take less money for more work -- and let's concentrate on what needs to be done to bring back a job market with better quality jobs for the working stiff.

Today, President Obama is expected to announce a series of steps to stimulate the economy. Yes, the pundits will be tearing him apart today, saying it's just a government bailout and the free market needs to do its thing. But if we look back in history, these types of measures the administration is touting are what brought workers back from the brink during another bad economic down turn, the Great Depression.