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Subscribe to RSSAre you sick of all the debt ceiling talk yet? Tired of hearing about the looming default crisis, and what it’s going to do to our economy, jobs and interest rates? So are the nation’s cartoonists!
For weeks, they’ve been hard at work cranking out cartoons nonstop about the debt crisis we face, so I thought I’d pull ten cartoons that I think really sum up where we are, as depressing as that might be.
1. Caricaturist Taylor Jones thinks it’s about time to start learning a new Pledge of Allegiance…
2. Nate Beeler of the Washington Examiner thinks the media has framed the “lack of compromise” poorly…
3. David Fitzsimmons of the Arizona Star feels he’s found the source of Republican’s unwillingness to compromise…
4. Jimmy Margulies of the Bergen Record thinks Obama is living up to his famous campaign slogan (sort-of)…
5. Pat Bagley of the Salt Lake Tribune seems to have found the villain in this whole debacle…
6. Ottawa Citizen cartoonist Cam Cardow thinks we should just listen to Lincoln…
7. Buffalo News cartoonist Adam Zyglis sees a problem in the Republican fire-fighting methods…
8. Bob Englehart of the Hartford Courant was inspired by Pixar to describe his debt ceiling thoughts…
9. Eric Aille sums up his thoughts about the largest problem our country faces… Audrey 2!
10. This Taylor Jones cartoon of Eric Cantor seems to sum up the debate nicely…
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Aside from the Eric Cantor / Don't Tread on the Rich ones, I found them to be very accurate and amusing.
Although I'm pretty disgusted with all these pundits making the Tea Party look like they're protectors or advocates of the rich. I'm a Tea Party supporter, and I don't protect the rich. Nor do any of the other Tea Party supporters I know. We're too busy worrying about the size and scope of government and its millions of bureaucratic tendrils to even pay attention to the rich.
But in some ways I feel sorry for the rich who made their lives through industry and self-starting. You've got all these Democrat jackals trying to punish them for their success. But all that does is incentivize them to take their wealth and their industrial prowess to another country where they won't be persecuted for being good at what they do.
Is that what we REALLY want to do? Alienate all the Warren Buffetts and Bill Gates' of the world just because they were successful and made a bunch of money? That just makes everyone look like a bunch of ingrates.
Rather than tax the pants off the rich, how about we get rid of some of these government behemoths like HUD that waste money, ruin communities, and produce nothing but run-down slums full of crack houses and deadbeats. Not to mention all the cost overruns, incomplete or failed projects, and money that just plain evaporates with no record of where it went.
You are not the world. And the fact you call DemocratIC (yes, the "ic" is in the party name - USE IT!) supporters "Jackals" pretty much means you're another childish, unserious person.