Go find a job, boy!  Earn some money!

Funny little cartoon.  Hat tip, C.  I remember when I was younger, the attitude about finding a job - and we're talking about minimum wage, teenager, college-student type of jobs - was if you put in the effort, you could find something.  If you could not get a job the perception was you weren't trying hard enough.  Today, however, it seems like the lack of having a job or a good job, often gets blamed on failures of the government or some natural unfairness in the system.  You see this routinely in the rhetoric around the Presidential debate - Romney is running the platform that he will bring more jobs to the country.  And the first question of the last debate was a college kid asking how he was going to find a job when he graduated (a question Romney spoke on for 2 minutes without saying a single thing).

I wonder if something has changed culturally, if the system somehow is genuinely failing, or the recession is a natural cycle and just part of capitalism.