As Metaphor For Health Care, Jobs, Financial Reform, Etc...

[WillyT]

"Please, sir, Can I have some more?"

Oliver Twist:

An early example of the social novel, the book calls the public's attention to various contemporary evils, including the Poor Law that stated that poor people should work in workhouses/poorhouses, child labour and the recruitment of children as criminals. Dickens mocks the hypocrisies of the time by surrounding the novel's serious themes with sarcasm and dark humour.

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Twist

Are all those years of social progress at risk???

Are we reduced to BEGGING the powers that be to do the right thing???

:shrug:

[WillyT]

1. Seriously... Seems Like We Are Begging For Scraps...

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