Political Cartoons

Matson. “Labor Day”. Political Cartoons. 9/3/08. Politicalcartoons.com

America’s industrial power and strength in Labor Force and Productivity is supported by deteriorating wages and health benefits. For example, this cartoon depicts a man that represents America, with a muscular torso and arms, on the written labor, productivity and USA. He is wearing tattered shorts, has bone thin legs, and is wearing old ripped up tennis shoes that expose hi toes, representing the wages and health benefits. Suggesting that America has no problem with Labor and productivity, but insufficient wages, and health benefits are even worse. America is an industrial power of the world and produces many great goods and products we use to get more materials and money. Supporting this productivity is an amazing work force, represented by his muscular arm. Everyone must work in order to survive; therefore America is never in short supply of people to do the jobs necessary. Unfortunately that’s where the prosperity ends. The labor force is supported by insufficient wages, shown by old beaten up shorts. Further down the cartoon you see legs with no muscle, basically only bones. The man is wearing ripped shoes, with his toes sticking out. This represents the health benefits. IN America health benefits are little to none. This is a dangerous set up for America: because it suggests how ever so slowly the labor force will begin to deteriorate in a slow-yet sudden- way, affecting the productivity. In order to be and stay truly strong we must build from the bottom up, starting with good health benefits, moving up to wages, and everything else will fall nicely into place.















Cam. “Evening news”. Political Cartoons. 9/9/08. politicalcartoons.com

The media is completely biased in favor of Barack Obama, they have attacked John McCain and Sarah Palin, but not one thing that Obama has done has been wrong. The media and the Democratic Party are trying to force a vote for Obama onto the people of the United States. For example this cartoon depicts a middle aged, middle class man sitting on his couch watching what is supposed to be the news, he calls out to his wife “Hurry! You’re missing the evening news!”. It then goes on to show that the screen is a series of hypnotic swirls. It then shows that it’s saying “Your eyelids are getting heavy…you will vote for Barack Obama…” as if trying to hypnotize the viewer. Suggesting that through Obama’s actions as well as his parties is he basically hypnotizing the population into voting for him by changing his stories depending on the party he is talking to and “fluffing up” his stories and resume. If he would stick to his alleged values he could have a solid platform. This cartoon also suggests that the media has said nothing about this obviouissue. Furthermore if Obama would stop preaching lies then maybe his votes would increase. He doubts the solidity of an honest candidate.















Cole, John. “Humpty Dumpty” Political Cartoons. 9/17/08. politicalcartoons.com

Mortgage securities are too much for Wall Street to handle and will become its downfall. The cartoon shows an Egg, wearing pants that say Mortgage securities around the top, sitting on top of a wall labeled Wall Street. This depicts that huge mortgage securities are sitting over Wall Street putting more and more stress on it. It then shows a huge “CRUNCH” and the egg sitting in a pile of bricks surrounded by a dust cloud. This suggests that the ‘weight’ of the mortgage securities is going to crush Wall Street and send everything to complete chaos. Unless the people in power can get the crumbling economy under control we may be facing a complete economic collapse.















“Wall Street Fire”. 9/30/08. politicalcartoons.com

Although the economic crisis was allowed to happen by government, they are using money from taxpayers as the remedy. This cartoon depicts a fire hydrant with the words “Taxpayers” written on it hooked up to a hose. This is saying that taxpayers can be thought of as a never ending source of money, or holding place for easily accessible money, just like fire hydrants are to water. You then see a donkey and an elephant holding the house attempting to douse the fire on a building labeled “Wall Street”. This suggests that the government is frantically trying to fix the current economic situation by pouring tax dollars into it, hoping it will stabilize it. In reality it may stabilize it but that doesn’t mean anything will change. Unless the big companies change their way we’ll just plummet right back into the same situation, continuing on in a vicious cycle of rise and fall.
















Boyce, Jan. “Economy” 10/6/08. politicalcartoons.com

The America Treasury is continuing to pour thousands of tax dollars into the failing economy. This cartoon depicts a fire truck with taxpayer dollars written on the side and U.S. Treasury written on the front. You then see fire fighters attempting to douse a fire, the US economy, by pouring millions of dollars into the “fire”. Suggesting that with the bailout that all we will be doing/. Pouring money will only fuel the fire to become worse. If we really want to better our economy we first have to “put out the fire”