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Class Warfare

Posted: 09/22/11 01:35 PM ET

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The Ben Bernanke
AMI (American Monetary Institute)
07:29 PM on 09/22/2011
Perfectly True...
09:33 PM on 09/22/2011
Eat the rich...I'll bet they're well marbled.
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scottishboy
Born in the USA!
06:57 PM on 09/22/2011
Propaganda, the most wealthiest folks in the US are Democrats. So there.
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ethrop
micro-bio-tic
07:18 PM on 09/22/2011
The most "wealthiest" yes, are Democrats. That would be because Democrats and liberals are generally hard-working smart people. So they are generally better off. Its also these wealthy Democrats who are asking the federal government to tax them more because they know they can afford it and wish to contribute to America's recovery. The cartoon here describes the abusive wealthy, those right-wing rich who got their money through privileged upbringings and inheritance.

See how easy that was? Now, You try it!
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scottishboy
Born in the USA!
09:32 PM on 09/22/2011
I love that, privileged, upbringings and inheritance. Otherwise, if you are a wealthy Republican, you must have inherited it or had a privileged up bringing? Is that your position, and your proof is, what?
07:59 PM on 09/22/2011
Link to your fact?
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HUFFPOST COMMUNITY MODERATOR
moonflowerjewelry
Buy American made, no excuses.
05:49 PM on 09/22/2011
Sad but true.
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scottishboy
Born in the USA!
06:59 PM on 09/22/2011
It's a lie, but who cares, huh?
08:00 PM on 09/22/2011
Surely not Fox News or anyone in the GOP or Tea party
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CarmenCameron
Prepping 4 US version of French Revolution
05:49 PM on 09/22/2011
THANK YOU for summing up my own disgust so simply!!!

I'll be emailing this to my entire list. (Even my most conservative friends.)
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scottishboy
Born in the USA!
06:58 PM on 09/22/2011
Make sure you send it to your Democratic friends, they should be aware of the propaganda, you know, that the vast majority of the wealthiest folks in America are Democrats. So they should be attacking them, don't you think?
07:32 PM on 09/22/2011
You'd think that might tell you that we know more about economics than the GOP does.
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Jonathan Richards
Political cartoonist, novelist, movie critic, acto
02:27 AM on 09/23/2011
Scotty, you're so obsessed with wealthy Democrats! Whoever they are, they should be carrying their share of the load, just like thee and me, don't you think? Democrat or Republican or corporation-person. The main difference is that philosophically, if not always in practice , Democrats are more predisposed to helping out.
05:25 PM on 09/22/2011
This is one of Mr. Richards' best cartoons. It perfectly sums up the Republican response to anything that benefits the majority in this country. And it's also incredibly funny! But sad of course. But I had to laugh. Shame on me.
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3bunnies
My opinion is Just That, Mine
04:14 PM on 09/22/2011
Had to giggle.
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scottishboy
Born in the USA!
07:00 PM on 09/22/2011
I did too because I know it is a lie. Is that why you giggled?
03:49 PM on 09/22/2011
Brilliant!

There's a new bumper sticker that reads "GOP 2012... Keeping millions out of work to put one man out of a job." Says it all. http://abaldwin360.tumblr.com/post/10164270639/keeping-millions-out-of-work-to-put-one-man-out
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scottishboy
Born in the USA!
07:01 PM on 09/22/2011
Part of the MOB are we? Or the duped MOB. That is the graduate status.
07:59 PM on 09/22/2011
Check the mirror for signs of being duped. Physician heal thyself.
03:32 PM on 09/22/2011
One of your best.
03:24 PM on 09/22/2011
Nice
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Andrew Wojtkowski
Physengrammer (Physicist/Engineer/Programmer)
03:19 PM on 09/22/2011
TECHNICALLY he's right. It's Class Sniping if only one side is firing. Which is worse.
03:04 PM on 09/22/2011
Perfect! The only ones suffering casualties in the class war that's been waged for the last 30 years are the poor and the working and middle class. The plutocrats have suffered no casualties............................yet.
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scottishboy
Born in the USA!
07:03 PM on 09/22/2011
You should talk to your Democratic friends. They are the most wealthiest folks in the country, bar none.
07:42 PM on 09/22/2011
It's actually a mix. http://www.forbes.com/forbes-400/
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ethrop
micro-bio-tic
02:47 PM on 09/22/2011
perfect!
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scottishboy
Born in the USA!
07:05 PM on 09/22/2011
Again, I thought is was perfect propaganda. As I'm sure you know, the very wealthy in this country are Democrats. If you only count the ones with lots of money!!!!
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cjus2473
Far Left as you can get
02:27 PM on 09/22/2011
Goodbye to All That: Reflections of a GOP Operative Who Left the Cult

Barbara Stanwyck: "We're both rotten!" Fred MacMurray: "Yeah - only you're a little more rotten." -"Double Indemnity" (1944)

Those lines of dialogue from a classic film noir sum up the state of the two political parties in contemporary America. Both parties are rotten - how could they not be, given the complete infestation of the political system by corporate money on a scale that now requires a presidential candidate to raise upwards of a billion dollars to be competitive in the general election? Both parties are captives to corporate loot. The main reason the Democrats' health care bill will be a budget buster once it fully phases in is the Democrats' rank capitulation to corporate interests - no single-payer system, in order to mollify the insurers; and no negotiation of drug prices, a craven surrender to Big Pharma.

http://www.truth-out.org/goodbye-all-reflections-gop-operative-who-left-cult/1314907779
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Husaria
Question all authority
02:23 PM on 09/22/2011
The lions should have been drawn as jackals and or vultures...........that is how the rich view the middle class and poor anyway. The cross hairs on us is 100 percent correct
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Elbrando
The dream shall never die - Ted Kennedy
02:40 PM on 09/22/2011
I would say we are seen as less than jackals or vultures, more like vermin or insects. There are some caring individuals with money but their voice seems to be drowned out by the others that care nothing for their fellow man.
03:59 PM on 09/22/2011
I was thinking mangy stray dogs would have been more appropriate.
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JBS
Part time misanthrope & full time curmudgeon
07:17 PM on 09/22/2011
I don't think the elephant would allow them in the howdah.
01:45 PM on 09/22/2011
The very writing of this cartoon proves this is all about class warfare. Ever since Obama spoke on Monday, it's all been about "us vs. them" or "rich vs. poor". Nothing better creates jobs and addresses our economic situation better that pitting us against ourselves, eh Mr. President????
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mountainweb
Conservative Commonsense
02:32 PM on 09/22/2011
Sad but true, but you have to realize Obama is a dedicated socialist who has NO CLUE how jobs are created other than government jobs (See Greece). He is playing the Robin Hood card, steal from the rich and say you are going to give it to the poor, then the government keeps it all.
03:31 PM on 09/22/2011
A dedicated socialist would have pushed single payer, nationalized the banks. Mr Obama is a DLC bluedog democratic president.
05:54 PM on 09/22/2011
No it's more about lies Republicans tell themselves and others.

Lie One: "Job creators" won't be able to create jobs if we tax them a couple points. Of course, they're not even creating jobs right now, and have been on strike since the day Obama was elected.

Lie Two: The Republicans campaigned and were elected on jobs creation and "we know how to put people to work". The Republicans have created...let's see...ZERO jobs since they were elected.
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donitacurioso
Right foot... Left foot... Repeat...
02:35 PM on 09/22/2011
So, I'm guessing you're one of the wealthy?