Famed editorial cartoonist Herbert Lawrence Block’s classic criticism of the economic strategies of the Reagan administration, published on Feb. 2, 1984.
The fact that such a stark cartoon remains poignant over 30 years later isn’t surprising in the least. But the immediate relevance of the scenario it depicts to current affairs is.
“…one problem that we’ve had, even in the best of times… is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless who are homeless, you might say, by choice.”
