**I was absent this day and am making up the work.
I believe that Guthrie's message is somewhat of an individualist one. It may sound like a positive, patriotic song, but if you look into the lyrics, you realize that it's an individualist ideal. He's saying 'you and me', but he wants to leave the land that he lives in. He wonders why 'his people' are all standing in line for welfare and why they're all hungry. He doesn't want to believe that his country of freedom and great opportunities is actually giving its people these bad things. In the song, he's pretty anti-government as he protests the way his country is going.
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