Groan-Ups
"America is a country of young men," wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1870. Five years later Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote, "How beautiful is youth! How bright it gleams/ With it's illusions, aspiration, dreams!" I wonder what these gentlemen would have to say today as our attempts to dig our way out of a hole just causes it to get deeper and deeper. In 1940 Franklin Delano Roosevelt declared, "We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future." It seems like we're failing on both counts. What else can we think when we short-change education while we pay for an illegal war, and then borrow against our future from the Chinese so our government can dole out a few bucks to people to encourage them to rush out and buy a new TV set?Meanwhile one has to laugh at a headline in today's news: "Bank Robberies Rise, Economy Is Suspect." Well, duh.
posted by John M Crowther @ 7:12 AM
2 Comments:
Well, duh, indeed, here I thought that banks were robbed just for the 'hell of it', nothing going on, hanging out at the corner, might as well, type of thing. What a shock. Another illusion bites the dust
Well drawn cartoon, John C. with lots of humor and expression about it. Love the son's body language.
Funny cartoon John... failure to launch has been around for awhile then? LOL
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