‘90s Depression
With the depression of the ‘90s in full swing, I’d like to add a few phrases to the language to mark the occasion. If you’ve lost your job after long-term employment (as my father and stepfather did last year), then you’ve been Bushwacked. If you or your partner have taken a low-wage job just to make ends meet, then you are working in the Bush league. And those ever-present, hand-held “will work for food” signs seen around town should be called Bush billboards.
Still, I suppose George Herbert Hoover Bush will be reelected in November. Gee, isn’t there a New York governor out there somewhere who can give us all a new deal?
JOHN SMART
Los Angeles
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