Springsteen "Youngstown" Montage

Why is the picture of the fat guy with a cigar shown wearing a Republican button? When will people realize that it's BOTH parties that have been whoring out our economy and selling our future up the river?

Amazing song..
And h'es right
"The Storys always the same"
Same sh*t different era really.
Could any1 find the song "Old Timer" from the same album Ghost Of Tom Joad?
Thanks.

it,s the new timer and what a great song

His song is not just about Youngstown, where I grew up, but all of big industry in this country. Ownership sold out the little man for their own greed. There is a book about Youngstown called These 100 years. It's said to see the rise and fall of a community...anywhere. That town unfortunately is dead today. Hardly a sole out on the streets...families had to leave one another to search for a better life. People still there are struggling. Romanticizing? I dunno

You are an idiot...Do you live in the US? People like me fight for your freedom and all you did is shit on it. So many have died for Democracy...to say it never exsist is treason. It is less today cause of Obama......Socialism is something you shoud be worried about.

YOU are an idiot. You make a blanket statement that people like you fought for my freedom without even knowing where I live or if I even served in the US Military myself. I certainly appreciate & support the efforts & sacrifices of our troops regardless of the governments reason they are fighting. Unfortunately your understanding of government (what is democracy, capitalism,socialism,fascism) is juvenile & naive at best & you buy into exactly what the gov't wants you to. Think about it.

This video kicks ass!!!

Springsteen is the Western world's foremost troubadour of Romanticism. That is to say, he elevates often negative contexts in grand, and gripping poetry, in great rhymes and melody, only ultimately to keep us confused and take us nowhere.

I think you're 100% that he romanticizes the mundane to the outright oppressive scenarios that have been muse to blues, folk, (some)hip hop, and punk musicians for two centuries. But I think his music has a more haunting than lulling effect...Bob Dylan he is not. Neither does he inspire revolution, but as on of those opposed to the machine that the states are I appreciate his music.

We trade heavy industry that fed and educated our youth for casinos...the fat cats drained the Valley as a swarm of locusts and then moved on to newer plains