Unemployment is too high and growth is anemic, but President Obama says the “private sector is doing fine.”
This is a gift to political cartoonists, and they’ve taken advantage of Obama’s daft remark.
As best as I can recall, this is my first Glenn Foden cartoon, but it’s a good one.
I wrote the other day about the debate on whether Obama’s a socialist. I concluded that it’s best to describe him as a statist, corporatist, or cronyist, but Chip Bok adds another term that might be most appropriate.
If you like Chip Bok’s work, I recommend this class-warfare cartoon and this gem about union thuggery in Wisconsin.
And Eric Allie makes the very good point that Obama not only screws up the diagnosis, but also offers the wrong prescription.
Eric Allie is relatively new to me, but he’s on the right track as you can see from this cartoons about Obama’s counting skills.
P.S. If Obama actually wants to fix the economy, I suggest he watch this video tutorial so he can learn that the private sector is suffering because too many resources are being diverted to unproductive uses by the public sector.
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Obama is taking us down the drain.
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[…] he shows with this cartoon and this cartoon how even well-intentioned government goes awry. And the teetering-on-the-edge-of-the-cliff cartoon accurately shows Obama’s mindset on fiscal policy. If forced to choose, though, I’ll go […]
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[…] You can see two additional Glenn Foden cartoons by clicking here and here. […]
[…] can see some previous Allie cartoons here , here, here, here, and […]
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The idea that the POTUS is driving(controlling) the economy is the very idea that we should be avoiding. Making that assumption in the cartoons criticizing him is putting the conversation on a playing field I don’t feel comfortable being on.
The argument here is the POTUS should not have the power to be in control of the economy, either by fixing it (highly unlikely) or by breaking it (on the nose). He’s not a philospher king.
You’re right, the economy is OK since now everyone can afford to save a little money so they can treat themselves to pancakes. In the meantime people like my husband can’t find a job for the last 3 years and the prospects of businesses starting to hire again look pretty freaking grim if we don’t wake up and get the Fed govt out of micromanaging those things that should be left to locals. Our annual income has dropped by more than 1/2 since 2010. Hope those pancakes were nice and fluffy.
If the economy is so bad, how come, my son and I went out breakfast,
to the “Original Pancake:,restaurant in Rockville, Maryland and at first
couldn’t find a parking place in the Restaurant parking lot,and then had to
wait a long time to get seated
Sunday June 17, 2012
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