What Do People Do All Day? is a picture book by Richard Scarry from 1968. The Norman Rockwell of the under-fives, Scarry excelled at depicting typical scenes of American life in the typically American town of Busytown. There, as everywhere in the nation, a leopard gives a dental exam to a seal, a beaver digs for coal, a fox sells a house to a rabbit, and a pig is winched through a train window after pigging out in the buffet car.
“Everyone is a worker” in Busytown. But that was in 1968, when college football star Joe Biden was receiving his five draft deferments for asthma that had troubled him when he was a high school football star and magically cured itself around the time the Vietnam War ended. If Scarry were around today, he might perform a public service by writing What Does Joe Biden Do All Day?
