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The Hungry Hungry Hipsters

This is an interesting development, perhaps it’s mostly hype, but the newest group to go on social assistance are twenty-somethings using their food stamps to buy organic vegetables. 

Via: Salon

Let's All Party as America Reverts to its Prehistoric State [Recessionomics]

Not a bad idea since Detroit is already full of urban subsistence farms (or as full as a deserted city can be.)

Unemployment Around The World. Visually


Via: Visual Economics

Unemployment Around The World. Visually

Via: Visual Economics

Apparently, lobbyists are paying homeless people to stand in line for them. I realize this should piss me off, but on the other hand, the homeless people are at least benefiting and the corporate lobbyist gets to see the person he just screwed over. So, some homeless guy is reaping the rewards of corporate interest. Oh what a twisted world.

Via Gawker