15% of the U.S. is on food stamps. Unemployment has stalled at 9%. Congressional leaders keep insisting that we need to borrow trillions of dollars in order to spend our way to prosperity. If we maintain the current trajectory, we will eventually belong to a welfare state where 90% of Americans are on food stamps, 90% of Americans are employed by the government, and our quality of living will make us envy the nice lady in Varvel’s comic above.
She’s more likely to have a cell phone than be reading a newspaper in what looks like to be in an isolated, forlorn spot somewhere. If Varvel wished to show up the screaming differences between relative poverty of the more developed nations vs. what is abject poverty in the developing nations, he’s missed with this particular example.
hanmari over 12 years ago
15% of the U.S. is on food stamps. Unemployment has stalled at 9%. Congressional leaders keep insisting that we need to borrow trillions of dollars in order to spend our way to prosperity. If we maintain the current trajectory, we will eventually belong to a welfare state where 90% of Americans are on food stamps, 90% of Americans are employed by the government, and our quality of living will make us envy the nice lady in Varvel’s comic above.
OmqR-IV.0 over 12 years ago
She’s more likely to have a cell phone than be reading a newspaper in what looks like to be in an isolated, forlorn spot somewhere. If Varvel wished to show up the screaming differences between relative poverty of the more developed nations vs. what is abject poverty in the developing nations, he’s missed with this particular example.
pirate227 over 12 years ago
It’s hard to be in the middle class because it’s disappearing.