Since 1983, Bob Gorrell has been an editorial cartoonist in Richmond, Va. first with the Richmond News Leader and then, starting in 1992, with the Richmond Times-Dispatch. On January 1, 1998, he resigned from the Times-Dispatch to concentrate on syndicated editorial cartoons and comic panel features for Creators Syndicate.
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Respectful Troll said, 6 months ago
The elves do the work. They cut the wood, mine the metals, assemble the paints and paint what they make. They stitch the clothing for the dolls and load the sleigh. Santa is just a very fancy Fed Ex/UPS/Mail delivery “truck” driver.
Yet in our world,the “elves” are overseen too often by people making six to eight figure salaries, not counting bonuses, with more profits sent to stockholders in the form of dividends. The pensions and benefits for the elves become tools to manipulate those profits, most recently at a loss, and then the elves are blamed for dragging down the company and profits, while executives give themselves more bonuses. More of the money is used to gamble on what the value vs. the yen, vs the pound sterling, vs the euro, vs the price of gold, vs oil futures etc etc etc., and so while no product is created, money is lost or created by simply betting on the value of money. The government gets blamed because in its efforts to be all things to all people it fails to be what is needed where need, and too often greed, actually exists.
Yes, Virginia. The Christmas Magic is EVERYWHERE.
Elves create toys made with love in the name of joy in a magic land where a large man owns flying reindeer. And on wall street, profits are created by betting on paper with paper while large men don’t give a flying…reindeer… for their elves who actually build the cars and homes, stitch the clothes and blankets, grow and harvest the food, and keep it all operating smoothly even though bosses and politicians hug the money, and criticize workers for being greedy,
Mr. Gorrell, I believe your cartoon, succinct as it is, does convey the childish innocence that comes from not being fully educated on your subject. But then, education seems to be just another government handout whose teachers, with their demand for pensions, pay, and more resources for students, are just another drain on profits. Eisenhower warned we would need an educated and informed electorate in order to stand against the military/industrial(read corporate) machine. His first draft included Congress. Ever since that speech, our schools have come under attack and we have steadily slipped from one of the top five educated nations, to somewhere in the high 20s or 30’s.
“Have a very merry Christmas/ and a Happy New Year, I hope it’s a good one, without any fear.”
Respectfully,
& Hopefully,
Rx71Wm29 said, 6 months ago
Elves, shmelves! Pass the Egg Nog!!
cjr53 said, 6 months ago
This would make sense if the child in the green jacket had said: “Yep… just like corporations!”
Ms. Ima said, 6 months ago
More like communism, comrade. Welcome to ‘hope and change’.
ansonia
said, 6 months ago
@cjr53
So corporations “give away” the products of their labor?
How magnanimous!
ossiningaling said, 6 months ago
@ansonia
They make it up in volume.
Jase99 said, 6 months ago
More like communism, comrade. Welcome to ‘hope and change’.
1) The Soviet Union was a more vigorous union buster than US “conservatives.”
2)You must be having some kind of flash back. The Republican fear of communism was replaced by the fear of terrorism, which was replaced by socialism, which was replaced by the fear of impending financial doom if the rich had to pay the same tax rate they were paying 20 years ago, which itself was recently replaced. You’re supposed to be spreading the fear of a distopian gunless future where every single citizen is being raped, robbed, and murdered every second of every day because they don’t have a gun to protect themselves. You know, like the home alarm service commercials.
Radish
said, 6 months ago
Those Haliburton no bid contracts were a dreadful government give away.
dtroutma
said, 6 months ago
If the public was aware enough, or smart enough, to see what Boehner’s people, like “Doc” Hastings as head of the House Natural Resources Committee was doing in the effort to give away to corporations and “friends” the trillions of dollars worth of taxpayer owned natural resources, let alone our public lands, national parks, and most precious “valuables”, they might rise up and run the “elves” on the right, out of town (D.C.) on a rail, in tar and feathers.
ahab
said, 6 months ago
@HOWGOZIT
Bah, humbug.
ahab
said, 6 months ago
@HOWGOZIT
Have a goodnog in your egg nog HOWGOZIT, and I hope you have a healthy and peaceful Christmas!
ansonia
said, 6 months ago
@Radish
“Those Haliburton no bid contracts were a dreadful government give away”
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What’s your point?
bztk said, 6 months ago
Another load of lazy Christmas cartoons centered around “Free Stuff”, Its like getting coal in your stocking…The right wing cartoonists are as brain dead as their readers
Jase99 said, 6 months ago
What’s your point?
That so called conservatives don’t complain when so called government giveaways benefit military contractors, large corporations, and wealthy individuals. Those giveaways seem to be good while anything that benefits the less fortunate is inherently evil and will destroy the nation.
Dr Lou said, 6 months ago
Another adolescent cartoonist heard from……….