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The last time unemployment hit double digits, the Billy Joel song “Allentown” was a surprise early ’80s hit. As Joel later told the Allentown Morning Call, it was a “song about being out of work.”
The song’s message of lost jobs and lost hope resonated with American workers down on their luck. “And it's hard to keep a good man down. But I won't be getting up today,” went the final verse.
President Obama tried to recapture that sentiment as a way of tapping into the emotion of...
And We're Living Here in Allentown
This situation has now been ongoing for a year. Where's the sequel to Allentown, Billy Joel? Where have you gone Joel DiGasbaggio(or any rock or pop star for that matter)our nation casts its dispirited ears to you, woo, woo, woo...
Pfffft!