Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for May 10, 1981

Transcript:

Voice: While stagflation continues to impact adversely on the consumer mindset. Zonker: Got all that? B.D: When did they stop using English? Voice: And the main problem in our inner cities, Mr. Chairman, continues to be the lack of jobs. B.D: That's such garbage! Zonker: Garbage? No kidding? B.D: The problem isn't a lack of jobs - the problem is we've made it too damn easy for people not to take jobs! Like the President says, all you gotta do is look in the classifieds! You want to see jobs? I'll show you jobs! See? There must be 30 pages of jobs there! But are these people applying for them? Of course not! They'd rather just stand on street corners and play radios! Zonker: Wow... there are a lot of listings here. B.D: What'd I tell you? Zonker: You're right, B.D! It's time all these chemical engineers got off their backsides! B.D: Well, we can't coddle 'em forever...