Moneychanger and His Wife
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| Quentin Massys, Moneychanger and His Wife, 1513 |
Everyday
families are praying their economic status will keep them afloat. Today Americans are experiencing high
unemployment rates and substantial drops in income. Statistics clearly imply the economy “is down
the drain.” As one of the technological
advanced and richest nations, The United States has homeless citizens on its
streets. Congress and the executive
branch should feel a shock of embarrassment.
Since Obama took office, the average income dropped from 55,198 to
50,058 dollars. The employment rate increased from 5 to 7.8 percent. And 14 million more people are on food stamps. The question is: how can we allow this?
As
becoming president in the 2009 recession, citizens did not believe unemployment
rates would be perfect or the increase of national dept. would end. But over four years, we trusted the economic
situations would be substantially better. Under Obama, gas prices
raised $1.24 more than he first took office, not to mention other commodities. Obama also spent 40 cents extra for every
dollar the US barrowed, leadings us 9 trillion more dollars in dept. Obama’s radicle spending takes money from US
jobs and other US benefits. And the American
people simply cannot afford this.
In The Moneychanger and His Wife, a couple experiences
the same situation. The only differences
between now and then are: the man on the moon, inventions galore, and overcoming
fatal diseases (just minor details). Why
can’t modern society solve poverty?
In conclusion, the man in the mirror symbolizes the
federal government. Either high
inflation to a decrease in income, the government controls the regulations,
interest, and the economy.
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