Read the excerpt from "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" What central idea of the song is reflected in these lines?

Hard times can affect anyone, even people who have worked hard and served their country.

Hard times can affect anyone, even people who have worked hard and served their country.

Explanation:

This song is about the struggles during the Great Depression. In the song the speaker talks about how he was promised a good life after all his hard work. The efforts of the blue collar laborers and soldiers were to build a wonderful and great nation. However, instead of doing well, he is standing in the bread line asking for a dime. He doesn't understand how all this hard work and effort could end up in the collapse of a great nation rather than its growth and prosperity.