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Published: 2009-05-02 09:26:14 +0000 UTC; Views: 39998; Favourites: 1848; Downloads: 709
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Apparently I draw zombies well with quite a lot of ease. Who knew?This cartoon got quite a bit of traffic on my website thanks to Reddit and Stumbleupon... unfortunately, that didn't keep up longer than a couple of days.
I think I may make a habit of posting editorial cartoons here a few days/maybe a week after they show up on my cartoon blog, so if you wanna see stuff when it's fresh, go here .
This particular cartoon can be found in its native environment right here .
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Goodness yes.
this really brightened my day.
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ooooooh man this is effing awesome!!! HAHA!
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Awesome. Very deserving of the DD. Kudos!
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While I disagree with the message this cartoon portrays (IE. Americans are not zombies, and Obama is not the only sane person left) . . .
The art itself is very well done.
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No, the comic is about how there are a load of supporters of reaganomics in office that think it will help the economy, but in no way really know anything about reaganomics, as if it was just some mindless chant they can sing to make things different, kinda like the whole "change" call. This is what obama should be metaphorically doing, instead of acting like a pansy.
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Actually, the horde of zombies represent the economic policies of the Reagan-era and all the economical policies that sprung forth from it since then, which are largely to blame for the economic crisis. The guy yelling in the back represents the normal people/Obama's critics, who aren't portrayed as not being sane, but rather oblivious to the Reagan-zombies.
And, while I'm sure this doesn't apply to you specifically, I feel it needs to be said (because other people have brought it up): if you look at some of Deep Hurting's other work you'll see that he's no blind follower of Obama. He criticizes whichever side he feels deserves it, which is in my opinion a good thing.
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It can be argued, correctly in my opinion, that the economic situation the US is in goes back farther than the Regan era. I'll give you the government's absurd deficit spending outside of wartime conditions started under Regan though. The current cycle of booms and busts can largely be traced to the artificial credit policy of the central banks (the Federal Reserve in the US).
Without the Federal Reserve there is only a gold/silver standard to rely on (which is what the US Constitution says is the only legal currency), there may be paper bank notes that represent it but those must always be backed by gold or silver, and a gold/silver standard is susceptible to small fluctuations in value. The Federal Reserve adds short term stability to the dollar. The downside is that inflation sets in. The dollar fluctuated about +/- 3% before the Fed, but inflation caused by Fed policy has caused the dollar to lose 96% of its purchasing power in a steady decline.
The central bankers, an unregulated and unelected body of banks, can control all the monetary policy of a nation. That alone should be worrisome. The central bank is supposed to try to maintain the growth of the economy and control the currency supply. After the stock market crash of 1929 they totally botched their handling of the situation, they didn't adjust currency supply or manage the liquidity of failed banks at all well (Milton Friedman has an excellent chapter on this in his book Free to Choose), which turned the crash into the Great Depression. During the depression they were given new power, and new direction from FDR, to stimulate economic growth. Ever since then the Fed has created artificial booms in response to slowdowns in the economy, which eventually turn into busts when everyone realizes the boom was a binge on artificial credit and there are not enough real resources to back up this new "wealth."
The current economic crisis was made worse by the closing of the gold window (the ability to exchange dollars for gold or gold to dollars) in 1971. Until then we at least pretended that the Fed maintained gold supplies to back up each dollar out there. Now it is fiat currency, it is what the government says it is so long as the people believe it. Since we have been on fiat currency the government is free to print money and adjust credit rates at will. This is very tempting to politicians looking for votes, promising social programs (paying for them with dollars just made out of nothing), or more importantly in this last crash, bad loans to people who couldn't pay them back.
Obama has little to no control over Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the Fed. I don't blame Obama for this crisis. He could help the economy a little by reducing both military spending and entitlement programs, reducing the expenditures and also the taxes needed to fund them, but not that much. Taxes are only part of the problem of why the economy is doing so poorly, and cutting taxes will only help a little bit. It has become so expensive to do business in the US, even apart from taxes, that investors will look abroad where costs are lower. To fix this mess you need to start with sound money, which means a stable dollar backed by real material assets. Once that is done and people aren't afraid for the value of their money, trying to convert their money into other assets, a recovery process can begin. There is going to have to be a major shift in the focus of the US economy, away from services (which currently dominate because most of the old manufacturing jobs went to China/India/Brazil/etc) to specialists like entrepreneurship and research, where the US can contribute to a globalized economy.
This is all coming from a person who studies economics as a hobby. I'm not a professor of economics or anything like that. I can give you links to those who are professionally based in economics give more weight to my assertions if you would like.
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I see. I see. I can't say I'm an expert on Reagan though, so I'll bow out of this one.
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i wonder if these kids understand why this is so clever
(...even though i tend to disagree that any party or present official serves as more or less of an inhibitor and parasite to national economic vitality -- would Obama dissolve the Fed? everything else is just a temporary fix. how many more 600bn shells are left in the boomstick before the barbarians rush the gates? the necronomicon is capitalism, bro [but you're a democrat/"socialist", so you already knew that, right? haha. keep it real!])
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Love it. So dynamically drawn.
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Man, this should be in Time magazine as political satire. Great work!
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Ahahahahahahahahaha. THIS IS AWESOME. (:
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Regan is even more scary when he's undead! I may not agree with the message, but this cartoon is very funny, and amazingly well drawn to boot!
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Eppppiiiiiiiiiccccc.... *wiggles*
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lawl So true!!! The americans really should be more patient >___>
Congraz on the DD, this really deserves it :3
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Fantastic. Get those damn zombies
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LMAO this is how it is exactly :]
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Thats a really flawed point of view. both our economic and health care situations would be much better off if Obama had actually challenged the establishment. He didn't. he copped out and appointed the banks' cronies to run the economy, people like Geitner and Summers who are the same people responsible for deregulating our nation in the first place. I understand Obama doesn't have it easy when he's trying to fight off the Grand old Party of NO, but if he would grow a pair and actually use the bully pulpit to pass his legislation, then we'd be in a much better position than we are now.
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Gotten enough comments about this that I should probably respond to at least one of 'em:
This cartoon dates to mid-March 2009, when Obama's Presidency was less than 3 months old. Granted, I already had some misgivings developing at that point (that Lord of the Rings comic that casts Obama as Isildur was drawn in February, about a month after he took office), but none of them really had anything to do with economic stuff because he really hadn't had time to take care of that, even without 20+ years of bad policy that just refuses to die shambling around devouring the economy.
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Yeah sorry, the cartoon makes a lot more sense back in '09.
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I think I respect him more for not using a "bully pulpit" than for what he's gotten done.
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That's exactly the problem, because he's too cowardly to be a real leader and stand up he hasn't gotten anything done except further entrench the establishment and lobbyist interests.
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"hasn't gotten anything done" research, please, before you say things. but it doesn't appear what I said meant anything more than an invitation for you to repeat yourself =/ to each their own, agree to disagree, whatnot.
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oh I'm mistaken? what has he accomplished domestically? He continues warrentless wiretapping, states secrets, and extraordinary renditions. His economic "reform" was weak, and allows bankers to continue their risky derivatives trading with our money which could very well cause another economic collapse if you ask just about any economist. And his health care bill allows companies to jack up their prices as much as 30% before the government can cut them off, it doesn't allow people to buy insurance over state lines which drives prices up even more, and the bill forces everyone to buy from those greedy corporations who in order to avoid covering people with pre-existing conditions are just not covering certain age groups.
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I am going to reiterate myself; you just seem fond of repeating yourself.
Because of my lack of energy to argue with eternally pessimistic naysayers, I'm just going to ask you to google "what the fuck has obama done so far" and let you be on your constantly unhappy way.
If you dislike it so much... there's always Sweden, or Canada, or you could help California leave the union, since they're so much better than the rest of the country anyway.
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I haven't been repeating myself, just pointing out facts. Being honest and realistic is not the same as being pessimistic. But I wish you luck with your Obama pom-poms.
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the guise of honest and realistic is the most common lie of the malcontent. i don't have to have pompoms to not run around talking smack about things.
My kid gloves are sitting in my drawer, not being used to scrutinize the smallest speck of dust on my bookshelf. Maybe if you took yours off for once you could actually yknow, feel something, with your own sense of touch.
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I'm not talking about specks of dust, I'm pointing to major flaws. The fact our economy still has all the problems that made it collapse in the first place is an enormous problem and still needs to be addressed. I'm not asking for Obama to change the world over night, I just expected him to actually challenge the establishment, like he promised in his campaign, instead of kowtowing to them. He pulled the economy "out of the ditch" as he likes to say, but what really needed to happen was some honest regulation so we don't have another collapse.
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regulation that's constantly being opposed.... -points at the comic we're commenting on-
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which goes back to my original point >_< if he would use the bully pulpit and stand up as a leader he could pass it. The republicans passed all kinds of legislation under Bush when the democrats were in the majority, so why on earth couldn't Obama get a bill through with a 60 seat majority?
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all I said was I respect him more for not being a bully than for what he's done or not done. >< aren't we talking in circles here?
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lol so it would seem. I'm just saying, after 8 years of republicans ramming through shitty legislation it would be really nice if Obama would push through the legislation that helps us.
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yes, and it'd be even nicer if he didn't have to push so hard. it's amazing how counterproductive people can be when they get an us and them mindset...
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if they could manage to pass some campaign finance reform and put an end to all they lobbyists it would go a long way to stopping all the hyperbole and extremism.
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I thought I heard whispers of that measure, but it must have been my wildest dreams =/
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no, if I remember correctly it was brought up recently but went nowhere
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Suppose that's worse than a wildest dream...
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isn't there a website called www.whatthefuckhasobamadonesofar.com ? tells you some things he has accomplished
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