As evidenced by my political cartoon contest, I’m a big fan of that form of satire.
And if I’m looking at cartoons specifically about statist economic policy, my favorites include Chuck Asay’s dead pig cartoon, as well as his cartoon about the big bad wolf.
And this Michael Ramirez headwinds cartoon is one of the most-viewed posts in the history of my blog, though I personally prefer his European lemming cartoon.
Now let’s add some more cartoons to the collection, beginning with a Michael Ramirez gem about Detroit.
As with most clever humor, there’s a strong element of truth in this image. Thanks to Obamanomics, Detroit and Washington have some unfortunate similarities.
Next we have a good contribution from Lisa Benson.
For obvious reasons, I like cartoons that portray Washington as a bloated slob. For other good examples, see here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here.
This Gary Varvel cartoon may be the best of today’s group.
It reminds me, for some reason, of this Chuck Asay tractor cartoon.
And given Obama’s miserable record on jobs, let’s close with this Glenn McCoy cartoon.
I guess this is sort of like giving all the 5-year olds on a soccer team a participation trophy. And I think press-as-cheerleader is a good touch. Which reminds me of my favorite Glenn McCoy cartoon about the unobtainable fox.
If I haven’t exhausted your interest in economic cartoons, I also recommend this Henry Payne classic about Obama and Greece, a first-rate cartoon on Keynesian stimulus by Scott Stantis, and this Eric Allie iceberg cartoon.
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with each passing day the American people are quietly realizing how incompetent and destructive the Obama administration has been… humorists… comedians… and cartoonists smell blood… but are restrained by respect for the office of president… and establishment media culture and social convention………… pity…………
Portrayals of the US as a basket case may ultimately be counterproductive. Many voters already believe that since the US is such a basket case, and continues to prosper, whatever mystical forces are responsible for American wealth will continue into the future. That, to me, is the greatest American misconception.
Americans have enjoyed, and are still enjoying (on short lived momentum now), the result of having been the first or second most economically free country in the world for many decades. However the Bush-Obama years, catalyzed by the inevitable rise if collectivism following the OBL terrorist attacks, have depressed America to 18th place in the index of economic freedom — and the outlook is negative — portending almost sure further declines. This situation has now become irreversible. Sure as the sun rises in the east, as the misery of subpar growth compounds on the American electorate, desperate voters will suicidally head for the polls with mandates for intensified collective dirigistic control of the economy and redistribution.
So things are really different now. America’s trajectory has changed. OBL essentially pushed Americans past the point of no return. If the situation might have been corrected in the 2001-2008 years, the election of a collectivist president on steroids in 2008, confirms entrance into a vicious cycle.
So, in practical terms, grab what you can at this point, because you will soon have to kiss goodbye the top American prosperity you have taken for granted for so long.
…or you can Hope that Change ( a change realized in Europe already some time ago) will bear fruit. It’s your choice.
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