Bullcrap toon. And it's not gonna work

[n2doc]

Sorry scumbag, but Americans will not be shamed by fake economic comparisons with other countries. We know what we had when we were growing up, and we know who took it away.

[FiveGoodMen]

1. Seconded! (& rec'd)

:fistbump:

[Fire Walk With Me]

2. That's the road marker of where we're heading if we don't stop the monsters.

Because they certainly aren't stopping themselves, are they?

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. If people think we have no poverty, no starving children here in this country, they are very wrong.

[HughBeaumont]

28. Ask my case-worker wife how high-on-the-hog America's poor have it.

The Right Wing SUCKS.

[trumad]

4. Why did this douchebag have to go all the way to Africa?

He could have just went here.

[n2doc]

20. Hey- That one guy has headphones! And nice running shoes!

How very pampered and lucky ducky he must be! I'll bet he doesn't even pay income taxes!

:sarcasm:

[redqueen]

5. Ah, the old 'other people have it worse, so shut up' excuse for an argument.

As a feminist I am oh so very familiar with that distinctly idiotic tactic.

[Aerows]

6. It looks like the latest meme to discredit OWS

There was another guy around here harping about how the "real" 99% were people in other countries, and that Americans were all the 1%. Naturally, he turned out to be a right winger saying that everyone should get a job.

Looks like his website is listed. Nothing wrong with visiting him and telling him how we feel about him pandering to the people who are desperately trying everything they can think of to shut OWS down.

[TBF]

7. What middle class?

Stupid M$M needs this chart -

Bottom poor and top rich - there's no middle

[Fire Walk With Me]

8. Aren't the IMF and World Banks responsible for much of the trouble in Africa

among other nations? "Confessions of an Economic Hitman"... It's the same people now turning their teeth upon Spain, Portugal, Greece, and other countries.

Again, it's the bankers. Always the bankers. All this cartoon does is remind us who is the problem, and what they leave behind them.

[amyrose2712]

11. +1

[readmoreoften]

12. Yes. It is. They can try to paint this as a "middle class movement" all they like...

but it's propagandistic bullshit.

[arcane1]

Exactly. And the last place left for them to exploit is right here at home n/t

[redqueen]

17. Don't forget Ireland. Geithner helped with that, too. (nt)

[DirkGently]

9. Right. The American middle class can question the rich AFTER they move us all into mud huts. Nice.

[gratuitous]

19. That's it

Until we're living in a mud hut in a barren wasteland, we don't have a legitimate complaint. Sure, we can see that we're headed there, but until it actually happens, keep your lip buttoned and love your corporate overlords. Love them, I say, or their feelings will be hurt!

[readmoreoften]

10. This is such total bullshit.

[Fuzz]

13. Sure, the workers you exploit by paying them 1 dollar a day, now you care about their situation. BS

[pinboy3niner]

14. The poster who was spamming this board with that message has moved on...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=user_profiles&u_id=277269

Remember, no grave dancing. :)

[ehrnst]

15. OWS is there for them as well. The 1% has exploited 3rd world resources

for centuries.

[sufrommich]

16. Ask anybody who mimics this bullshit if they're happy with

the USA racing to the bottom.

[MADem]

18. I don't get the point--some people actually have it worse? No shit, Sherlock!

No matter where you go, you'll always find someone who is worse off if you just look round a bit. It's not a fucking contest!

What the idiot doesn't consider is that much of the contributions to aid programs for Africa and other beleaguered nations that come from the US come from that very "middle class" this guy is snarking at.

I get the impression that "gary varvel" is not terribly bright. Since his shit is featured at "Townhall dot com" that's pretty much a given.

[Scuba]

21. There's a family of four living in a Buick down the block...

... and a family of three that owns nine homes, 34 automobiles, a jet, a helicoptor, a US Senator and two Governors. So stuff your asshat cartoon

[slackmaster]

22. I think it's unfair to Gary Varvel to label him a "scumbag" based on one cartoon

http://blogs.indystar.com/varvelblog/

[n2doc]

24. Oh, no, it is based on a long familiarity with his work

I have to see it nearly every time I do a toon roundup. And 90% of the time it is RW crap. The other 10% he is usually trying to attack one of the 'non-favored' Republican candidates.

[redqueen]

29. Perhaps. It is very fair, though, to identify him as an idiot. (nt)

[Matariki]

23. Some folks won't be happy until most of America looks like that cartoon

and is working for pennies a day.

[sabrina 1]

25. Why do they think that it's okay for people ANYWHERE

to live in poverty when there are enough resources on this planet to prevent it?

The Goals of this movement are not just about the middle-class here, they are about inequality caused by the corruption of the financial institutions which has caused much of the poverty around the world over the centuries of Imperialism driven by money and power.

Each time we buy cheap foreign made products, we are part of the problem but with laws forcing Corporations to abide by labor and minimum wage standards even if they are operating outside this country, those inequalities can begin to diminish.

Guess they didn't know this is a Global Movement to finally start addressing these problems which for far too long, have not been addressed.

Stupid cartoon, and a perfect example of the results of a corporate media pushing the acceptance of these inequities, not just here, but Globally. And too stupid to realize how manipulated they are.

In fact, this cartoon COULD be used to make some points about the Global Inequities caused by Wall Street corruption, and to demonstrate how acceptable they became to the ignorant victims of the Corporate Media who are unable or unwilling to do their own thinking.

[HughBeaumont]

26. False equivalency - Cream of Wheat for Republicans.

It's funny how America's poor never get compared to, say, Germany or Sweden's poor. No, instead, America's poor gets put up against Djibouti's or Zimbabwe's poor by the RW (and, sadly, by some on this board). Maybe Varvel the Barbell needs to read this:

[nadinbrzezinski]

27. Well problem is I ain't gonna stop this

Good on calling it bull.

[beardown]

30. Goose - Gander

If the implication is that the system is fine because the US poor have it good compared to many third world folks living in mud huts, then we should apply the same standard to the US rich. We should tax the rich for every dollar they have over being able to buy a stone hut, a bike, a radio, and a herd of goats. Hey, you'd still be considered rich in Somalia.

These rightee arguments are making the movie Forrest Gump look more and more like the story of the second coming of Einstein.

[Zorra]

31. That image is a good representation of the reality that free trade economic globalization

has brought about for many people on the planet.

OWS is trying to keep the globalists from making that the norm here in the US.

[ellenfl]

32. what middle class? eom

[Fire Walk With Me]

33. Kick.