[Gaffer]

I watched the “Grapes of Wrath” last night...a poignant treatise on abject poverty and hope peppered with a Hollywood attitude against capitalism portraying farm owners and their overseer workers as thugs and union busters.

However, in our culture of today, the people who like to portray themselves as the Tom Joad of today aren't really interested in work of any form. They aren't even interested in relocating. They are only interested in locating the government check that they all feel (demand) they are entitled to.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

They are only interested in locating the government check that they all feel (demand) they are entitled to.

THAT is the problem. An honest, hard-working populace could handle the debt crisis. But that doesn't describe a large percentage of the population.

[Holly_P]

Weren't the Joads met at the California border with signs saying, "Okies, keep out"? Yet, now they welcome criminal Mexicans with open arms.