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   Darren Blair said, 7 months ago

   So… he’s calling anyone who votes for Romney a “pig”, right?
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   That’s about all I can get from the picture.
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   dapperdan61 said, 7 months ago

   Voting for Romney/Ryan is the equivalent of voting for a 3rd term of Bush/Cheney. That’s what I get from this comic. No Thanks
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   Robert Landers said, 7 months ago

   Good Heavens man, it is a political editorial cartoon, stop taking it literally (anymore that you can take a conservative cartoon literally). What is being stated is that greed is a pig like virtue. Ever seen a group of pigs at a feeding trough?

   He is not literally calling those that vote for Romney pigs!

   One problem that I see however is the more extreme view cartoons on both sides will not be helping ANY winner in this election to pull the country together to face our many problems in the next term, and that means either President Obama or candidate Romney!!
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   Mephistopholes said, 7 months ago

   @Darren – I think more poignant is that he uses the tired and worn word Greed.

   To some – Greed refers to one of the 7 deadly sins (those sins that aren’t specifically banned in the bible but take our focus away from God).

   To Liberals like Paul Schlep (though he is one of man many people) Greed refers to a state being where the target of this insult makes and unspecified amount more then the person calling them greedy AND is unwilling to surrender it for the common good.

   Quite often the person using the word Greedy makes several assumptions: 1) The person who has the money never earned it, 2) If they did earn it, they must have done it through netharious means because the person hurling the epithet hasn’t been as successful and it couldn’t be because the target was Smarter or more industrious then them, 3) They have been cheated in the current economy and the greedy one should make them whole whether they have ever met or not.

   We need to turn this country around and to do that we need several things to happen: 1) We need to recognize and reward excellence, 2) We need to encourage risk taking, 3) We need people to take pride in self sufficience and be ashamed of dependency. What I have just said is anathema to the liberal agenda so you won’t ever hear Mr. Obama support these ideas.
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   Krazy Ig Katz said, 7 months ago

   “…clutching forks & knives to eat the bacon.”
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   Omnius said, 7 months ago

   Time for a Pig Roast Tuesday. I can’t wait to hear the pigs whine about 4 more years for Obama.
   Yes Darren Blair only pigs vote for R’money!
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   Larry said, 7 months ago

   This refers to Orwell’s political novels.
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   TheTrustedMechanic said, 7 months ago

   @Mephistopholes

   Clutching at straws again there meph?
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   ruff said, 7 months ago

   @Mephistopholes

   And we need to remember what got us into the predicament we are in right now. Greed. And not make the same mistakes again. Which rules out King Mitt Midas, who’s whole experience is based on Greed.
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    Nos Nevets said, 7 months ago

    As if greed stops when you adopt am economic & political system that depends on the inherent Goodness of Humanity. Russian and Chinese communist bureaucrats never act lazy or demand bribes. Zimbabwe, anyone? North Korea? France before or after the revolution?

    Capitalism does not deny greed but builds in checks and balances. I can only make money if I make other people happy. (Sorta like the Golden Rule.) I can only risk my own money, not the masses’ by gov’t fiat. I bear the brunt of my own bad decisions.

    Our constitution has checks and balances because our founders admitted people are greedy. France’s revolution just gave us the reign of Terror and Napoleon.

    Seems we could use a little more reality-based economics & politics.
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    Jase99 said, 7 months ago

    Capitalism does not deny greed but builds in checks and balances.
    
    There is no built in checks or balances in a purely capitalist economy. If a large company finds itself challenged by an upstart with a much better product, the large company merely has to buy the other company out or try to force it out of business. We’ve seen it time and time again. The government is therefore needed to add those checks and balances. Our problem today is that government all too often sides with business to the detriment of the consumer and tax payer.
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    ansonia said, 7 months ago

    So who’s really greedy?
    The person who goes out and starts a successful business and gets rich selling products to people who want to buy them,
    or
    The people who yell, “Gimme an Obamaphone”
    “Tax the hell out of the rich and gimme the goodies.”
    “I’m too lazy to work for it myself, just give me stuff!”
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    Radish said, 7 months ago

    Someone’s giving away free stuff? I’m voting for that guy!
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    Radish said, 7 months ago

    To bad the storm didn’t drown the pigs when it had the chance.
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    MortyForTyrant said, 7 months ago

    “Animal Farm” by George Orwell… Worth re-reading if Romney wins…
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