Political Cartoon: Michael Ramirez on Occupy Wall Street and The Problem With American Culture
Michael Ramirez draws editorial cartoons for the Investor's Business Daily.
This one captures the hypocrisy behind Occupy Wall Street: click on the image to enlarge
1. Nobody at "Occupy Wall Street" is hero-worshipping TV celebrities like Kim Kardashian or Hugh Laurie.
2. Nobody is "Occupy Wall Street" is vilifying the medical profession.
3. Individual physician practices have small numbers of employees, they do not provide jobs for "lots of people."
4. Wall Street investors do not employ "lots of people." On the contrary, they invest in struggling businesses, sell off or merge the assets, transfer jobs overseas and FIRE A WHOLE BUNCH OF PEOPLE and pocket what is left. This is exactly how Mitt Romney made his fortune.
1. Except for Radiohead, Kanye, and any other rich celebrity who happens to show up. Then they bend over and say "please may I have some more?"
2. No, they just vilify the "rich" which includes doctors, non-Democratic members of the 1%, and anybody with the temerity (or worse, the basic background in economics) to disagree with them. Apparently, "wealthy" is the 21st Century's "Der Juden."
3. Not always.
4. Also, not always. It's just that SOME folks (you know who you are) generalize a relatively small number of bad actors who happen to make a loud noise as being representative of the entire community. (But then they bitch and moan when anybody does it to them.)
2 comments:
This cartoon is mind-bogglingly stupid.
1. Nobody at "Occupy Wall Street" is hero-worshipping TV celebrities like Kim Kardashian or Hugh Laurie.
2. Nobody is "Occupy Wall Street" is vilifying the medical profession.
3. Individual physician practices have small numbers of employees, they do not provide jobs for "lots of people."
4. Wall Street investors do not employ "lots of people." On the contrary, they invest in struggling businesses, sell off or merge the assets, transfer jobs overseas and FIRE A WHOLE BUNCH OF PEOPLE and pocket what is left. This is exactly how Mitt Romney made his fortune.
1. Except for Radiohead, Kanye, and any other rich celebrity who happens to show up. Then they bend over and say "please may I have some more?"
2. No, they just vilify the "rich" which includes doctors, non-Democratic members of the 1%, and anybody with the temerity (or worse, the basic background in economics) to disagree with them. Apparently, "wealthy" is the 21st Century's "Der Juden."
3. Not always.
4. Also, not always. It's just that SOME folks (you know who you are) generalize a relatively small number of bad actors who happen to make a loud noise as being representative of the entire community. (But then they bitch and moan when anybody does it to them.)
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