I think that half the press articles about Social Security use this same bleak stock photo. Why can't they do better? Is that how we want people thinking about Social Security? Here's a few links to give you an idea: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, USA Today, Seattle Post-Intelligencer. What would a better illustration look like?
It's kind of symbolic. Congress stripping the agency administrative budget over the years kind of like winter stripping the leaves off the trees.
ReplyDeleteWell you cant have balloons and unicorns when you are complaining about the wait times can you?
ReplyDeleteSSA is depressing. A few happy things, babies first SSA Card, a name change for a marriage, but mostly it is a depressing place of ends.
The end of your working career, due to retirement or disability, a place to file death benefits and survivors, a place to change your name back after a failed marriage.
It really isn't the Chucky Cheese of Government Offices.
Well, if you take a picture during the sunny days of summer, you're not going to have much of the building in the background with the leaves blocking all of the trees.
ReplyDeleteBut then again, if you replaced the English spelling of Social Security with Cyrillic writing, it could very well be a picture of any Eastern Bloc building back in the days of the USSR.