All a Matter of Perspective
The panicked expressions on everyone's faces make it clear this is meant to be a criticism of liberal policies being enacted by the president, but the funny thing is my first thought is she's come up with an excellent metaphor for what I believe in as a liberal. I don't see people dragging each other down, I see people helping each other out. Life is too often too hard for most of us to make it entirely on our own, and the best solution I know is to rely on each other. Maybe this time I need to help you and maybe next time you need to help me. Better to take turns keeping each other afloat than take turns individually sinking. So instead of feeling a criticism from this, I see a surprising confirmation. It's just too bad the critical can't see it as well.
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posted by Degolar @ 10:23 AM
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Nice post Chris. I agree with your sentiment. In other countries, people are more comfortable with a (more expensive) social network because they believe that they might need help someday. In this country, people are reluctant to a progressive tax system that asks the better off to support the less well-off because they believe that they might be billionaires someday (even though the former is more likely than the latter).
I didn't know that the taxpayers financially supported unions. This cartoon might be more effective if I knew that the author was equally shocked and bothered by the taxpayer supporting banks, corporations, agribusiness, etc....
Troy (David)
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