Pic Pick

December 1st, 2008, 11:46 PM EST

Posted in Liberaland by Alan

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  1. for that picture.. As in, who took it and when? It’s obviously a Great Depression picture.

    Posted by WFG
    December 2nd, 2008 at 12:02 am

  2. I wish I knew more about the picture.

    Posted by WFG
    December 2nd, 2008 at 12:44 am

  3. 1929 to 1935 doing the great depression. The man is most likly a WORLD WAR I VET. If he speaks 3 languaces,he most likly lives in a big city and his parents where not born here. He needs work as well too feed his 3 kids. Times are so bad his 3 trades are no use. Other wise i don,t have a clue.

    Posted by steve
    December 2nd, 2008 at 6:10 am

  4. Good perspective on our current economic situation. Nobody has had to come up with witty signs to wear around town to get some brisket on the table just yet. It’s a good thing as Martha Stewart would say.

    Posted by Eric
    December 2nd, 2008 at 9:49 am

  5. Good pic ..

    Posted by Bob the union man
    December 2nd, 2008 at 10:25 am

  6. Sorry Eric… Everything old is new again:

    http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/11/18/business/main4615623.shtml?source=RSSattr=Business_4615623

    Posted by tcny
    December 2nd, 2008 at 10:35 am

  7. Um, TCNY. You kind of proved my point for me. I don’t think wearing a ‘almost homeless’ sign is the same thing as wearing a ‘actually homeless’ sign.
    If this guy was one of the horde out there with ‘God save me I’m starving’ signs then you would have me over the barrel but, no offense, I think you enforced my point that it always could be much worse.
    Without engaging in class warfare I’ll just say that I’ve slept a night in my car and other fun things that don’t have to do anymore (thank God) and realizing your benefits are running out is not hard times. Hell my hard times weren’t hard by some standards cause I had wheels and just enough quarters for gas. Anyway, complaining about life on the internet is a luxury I’m glad to enjoy.

    Posted by Eric
    December 2nd, 2008 at 11:04 am

  8. “Brothaaaah, can ya spare a dimmmmmme!”

    Been singin’ it all morning. Poignant.

    Posted by Sarah
    December 2nd, 2008 at 11:23 am

  9. believe we have yet to feel the full impact of our present economic situation. Mainstreet, although losing some jobs so far, has not felt the full crush of the failure of so many facets of the banking system. The picture is fair warning for what could await even the most qualified…and, after all, qualifications will never offset innovation, ingenuity, and invention.
    We may need to learn the old skills of self sufficiency in order to survive.

    Posted by Robert Blair
    December 2nd, 2008 at 12:23 pm

  10. This is so sad.

    I’m an insurance underwriter. Got a call today from an insured in NJ who just purchased a 2007 Nissan Sentra on Monday. He works for BMW. He went in to work today and was told he was laid off. He hadn’t even picked up the car yet.

    I was on unemployment for almost a year. I hope I never have to go back to that situation.

    Posted by Cheryl Carroll
    December 2nd, 2008 at 9:46 pm

  11. I think the photo is English in origin.

    Posted by WFG
    December 3rd, 2008 at 5:30 am