A nominated finalist for the Pulitzer 6 times since 1999, Chattanooga Times Free Press cartoonist Clay Bennett won the Prize in 2002. He has also earned just about every other editorial cartoon award there is, including the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, the John Fischetti Editorial Cartoon Competition, the Overseas Press Club's Thomas Nast Award, the National Headliner Award, the Society of Professional Journalists' Sigma Delta Chi Award, the National Journalism Award from the Scripps Howard Foundation, and the National Cartoonists Society Division Award for Best Editorial Cartoons. Bennett was also named Editorial Cartoonist of the Year by Editor & Publisher magazine in 2001.
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Rickapolis said, 3 months ago
Cadillacs zoom in America
Industry boom in America
Life can be bright in America
If you are rich in America.
NeoconMan said, 3 months ago
Ha ha. Obviously a victim of his poor decisions. Didn’t invest his inheritance wisely.
Harleyquinn
said, 3 months ago
Obama and the federal reserve are doing all they can to make the numbers look good. They are pumping as much printed money as they can into the system, causing an inflated dollar, and a bubble that will pop.
of course by then Obama will back away and hype some other non cause and blame someone else for what ever is going on. It is what he does best.
Uncle Joe said, 3 months ago
@NeoconMan
“Ha ha. Obviously a victim of his poor decisions. Didn’t invest his inheritance wisely.”
He probably chose his parents poorly…
indieme
said, 3 months ago
We’re all rich!!!! Forgetaboutit….
Tigger
said, 3 months ago
@Uncle Joe
You cant’ choose your parents.
Tigger
said, 3 months ago
Homelessness has soared since Obama became President, this is the hidden message Bennett is sending.
I Play One On TV said, 3 months ago
@Tigger
“Homelessness has soared since Obama became President, this is the hidden message Bennett is sending.”
You may be right. I interpret it another way: this is proof positive that trickle-down economics doesn’t work. Rewarding the investors and “job-creators” hasn’t done a ding-dang thing to creat jobs, unless you count China.
Anyone man enough to stand up and admit that Republican economic policies of borrow-and-spend/reward the rich and all the boats will float higher just turned out to be an expensive, failed experiment? Don’t all try at once, there’s plenty of time…..
dtroutma
said, 3 months ago
It’s about income inequality in America, one of the worst industrialized nations at present, and we can thank Republicans, deregulation, tax tables that now castrate the middle class to feed the rich " mountain oysters" and champaign.
The economy IS picking up, home building and sales are now picking up in much of the country, and yet we still need to do more to “even the odds” and reduce the differential in incomes and opportunities, even if it does mean folks like the Bushes and Romneys have to pull the platinum spoons from their mouths and feed the pot that IS the national coffers.
Michael wme said, 3 months ago
He has a job paying $240,000 a year, and had a take home of $8,000 a month. He’d accumulated a portfolio worth $1.3 million. But he was very lucky. The judge, once it was established that he was a cuckold, ignored the Clinton guidelines and let him off with only giving his wife $1.3 million cash and $8,000 a month (tax free to his ex, taxable to him, so 100% of his take-home pay).
His wife and her lawyer were furious: the Clinton guidelines say he MUST be ordered to pay AT LEAST $2.6 million and $10,000 a month, so he should have gone directly to jail for non-support for Life at hard labour, without the possibility of parole. The Clinton guidelines are intended to put those most heinous of men, cuckolds, not just IN the jail, but UNDER the jail.
lifebyc said, 3 months ago
@Harleyquinn
I expect your current predictions will work out about as well as the ones you made last October, Harley.
Donald Williams said, 3 months ago
If you’re really objectively looking for statistics on wealth inequality in the United States, look here:
Wealth Inequality
Rockngolfer said, 3 months ago
Who took my picture and sent it in.
Donald Williams said, 3 months ago
@Michael wme
$240,000 per year divided by 12 months = $20,000 per month. Take-home at $8,000 per month means $12,000 in taxes or a rate of 60%. Do I have that right?
Is there a point to your post?
Oh, I think I get it. You’re being facetious.
Fuzzy Thinker (I)
said, 3 months ago
Clay- please run a TOON showing the gambling with borrowed money on Wall Street.