“Put those fat ugly pompous a$$es in prison for life after hauling them into court for their financial crimes.”
Nah, let them keep their companies, but make them live on the salary they pay their lowest-paid employees. Leona Helmsley, for instance, should have been sentenced to work as a maid in her own hotel for about 20 years.
The composition of the cartoon is interesting. All the suits merge into one, no details among the individuals. The standard bow ties, surely not clip-ons. The standard plutocrat cigars. No young people, except horse-tooth twits in the background. I seem to recognize some of the faces. I always admire the way caricaturists bring out depth from through use of varying line thicknesses.
Weirdly, it calls to mind “A Feasibility Study,” from THE OUTER LIMITS. The Rich are Luminoid Elders, gathered into institutional clusters but always thinking (Think Tanks!):
“They seek a planet on which life is healthy, vibrant, strong, and mobile. They need such people to do their work, to labor and slave for them, to manufacture their splendored dreams. The Luminoids need slaves, and they have chosen the planet off which their slaves will be abducted . Not too many at first, a neighborhood-full, perhaps. A neighborhood like mine or yours…”
Western colonialism is no longer the blatant subjection of poor nations, it seems to me it’s turned back on its own citizens and through years of increasingly sophisticated advertising propaganda, has turned us into consumers above-all, first of products and then of politics: benign slaves distracted by lotteries and reality shows.
Just playing with ideas, here … aware my opinions are not necessarily the correct ones, as one of my old history teachers scolded me.
Henry Ford had far more faults than virtues (he was almost a lunatic in his anti-Semitism, for instance), but he did know that PEOPLE NEED TO HAVE ENOUGH MONEY TO BUY PRODUCTS!. In his case, specifically his products, of course, but that’s why he paid his workers enough so they could become his customers eventually. As Bill said, now the cycle is grinding to a halt. I wish people would be patriots first instead of consumers first. (Oh, and emptc12, you left out all those dry martinis, which even out-number the cigars!)
There was an article in yesterday’s NYT showing how the states, despite state constitutional amendments banning affirmative action were doing everything in their power to get around it. Good for them, we disagree with that law. Shouldn’t obey a bad law.
In Chicago the mayor has said despite the Supreme Courts Heller decision they will not allow their citizens to keep and bare arms. Good for them, we disagree with that law. Shouldn’t obey a bad law.
Those evil successful businessmen. They are actually trying to get around paying ultra-high taxes. Don’t they know everyone must obey the law.
Imagine that it took 30 years for such a comic strip to come to fruition. Reagan started it, and this is the true meaning of trickle-down economics, and how it created this mess that we have today.
Who did you THINK benefited from a nearly incomprehensible 7000+ page tax code? And who gives it to them and maintains the system? Congress. The tax code is the source of great power. They won’t give it up. All this talk about “simplification” of the tax code is just yadda yadda yadda.
Only republicants would think that raising taxes on those who have the most does not increase revenues. We have bills that need paying so cough it up and quit your whining.
Lets start to understand that 50% of the 1%ers are either in sports or entertainmentlet’s see a cartoon with all of those Liberal entertainment figure justifying their huge annual incomes and welath
filmsgraded about 12 years ago
I had almost forgotten about Leona Helmsley “the queen of mean”
fritzoid Premium Member about 12 years ago
“Put those fat ugly pompous a$$es in prison for life after hauling them into court for their financial crimes.”
Nah, let them keep their companies, but make them live on the salary they pay their lowest-paid employees. Leona Helmsley, for instance, should have been sentenced to work as a maid in her own hotel for about 20 years.
emptc12 about 12 years ago
The composition of the cartoon is interesting. All the suits merge into one, no details among the individuals. The standard bow ties, surely not clip-ons. The standard plutocrat cigars. No young people, except horse-tooth twits in the background. I seem to recognize some of the faces. I always admire the way caricaturists bring out depth from through use of varying line thicknesses.
Weirdly, it calls to mind “A Feasibility Study,” from THE OUTER LIMITS. The Rich are Luminoid Elders, gathered into institutional clusters but always thinking (Think Tanks!):
“They seek a planet on which life is healthy, vibrant, strong, and mobile. They need such people to do their work, to labor and slave for them, to manufacture their splendored dreams. The Luminoids need slaves, and they have chosen the planet off which their slaves will be abducted . Not too many at first, a neighborhood-full, perhaps. A neighborhood like mine or yours…”
Western colonialism is no longer the blatant subjection of poor nations, it seems to me it’s turned back on its own citizens and through years of increasingly sophisticated advertising propaganda, has turned us into consumers above-all, first of products and then of politics: benign slaves distracted by lotteries and reality shows.
Just playing with ideas, here … aware my opinions are not necessarily the correct ones, as one of my old history teachers scolded me.
Jason Allen about 12 years ago
Reminds me of that line from Dolores Claiborne “Well, don’t look to me, Dolores. All my money is tied up in cash.”
Godfreydaniel about 12 years ago
@emptc12 and PlainBill
Henry Ford had far more faults than virtues (he was almost a lunatic in his anti-Semitism, for instance), but he did know that PEOPLE NEED TO HAVE ENOUGH MONEY TO BUY PRODUCTS!. In his case, specifically his products, of course, but that’s why he paid his workers enough so they could become his customers eventually. As Bill said, now the cycle is grinding to a halt. I wish people would be patriots first instead of consumers first. (Oh, and emptc12, you left out all those dry martinis, which even out-number the cigars!)
Libertarian1 about 12 years ago
There was an article in yesterday’s NYT showing how the states, despite state constitutional amendments banning affirmative action were doing everything in their power to get around it. Good for them, we disagree with that law. Shouldn’t obey a bad law.
In Chicago the mayor has said despite the Supreme Courts Heller decision they will not allow their citizens to keep and bare arms. Good for them, we disagree with that law. Shouldn’t obey a bad law.
Those evil successful businessmen. They are actually trying to get around paying ultra-high taxes. Don’t they know everyone must obey the law.
redbaron1966 about 12 years ago
Imagine that it took 30 years for such a comic strip to come to fruition. Reagan started it, and this is the true meaning of trickle-down economics, and how it created this mess that we have today.
pwroblewski about 12 years ago
Who did you THINK benefited from a nearly incomprehensible 7000+ page tax code? And who gives it to them and maintains the system? Congress. The tax code is the source of great power. They won’t give it up. All this talk about “simplification” of the tax code is just yadda yadda yadda.
joe vignone about 12 years ago
Only republicants would think that raising taxes on those who have the most does not increase revenues. We have bills that need paying so cough it up and quit your whining.
fairoakien about 12 years ago
Lets start to understand that 50% of the 1%ers are either in sports or entertainmentlet’s see a cartoon with all of those Liberal entertainment figure justifying their huge annual incomes and welath