Ten thousand words

This reminds me of one of James Taggert's points of View in 'Atlas Shrugged' by Ayn Rand. We have a moral obligation to go bankrupt to help poor old China (Mexico).

I can relate to this so much. I went shopping today. It was like all other shopping days, but it does get worse. Now so much make-up is made in china..and now food. I cannot get mandarin oranges in a can that does not come from China. Fish...lots of fish from China. It will get to the point where you cannot get food from the USA. Forget shoes and sneakers. I have two pairs of footwear. A pair of dress shoes...and a pair of sneakers. These sneakers are so old but I have no choice. I will not buy from China. The stores will not have sneakers or shoes from anywhere but China. I cannot buy them mail order...I must try them on.

I love the idea that Obama can spend in one bill over 700 billion dollars that has to be either borrowed from a different country or created out of thin air yet Obama is now champion fiscal responsibility. We heard over and over again that our economy must have this spending bill, yet we never heard anyone ask who would it help more, us or them?

Good one, Red! Though, I gotta' say that those barrels are probably worth quite a bit more than the price of cheap Chinese clothes that could be purchased at the dollar store. Had this exchange occurred a few months back, when scrap metal prices were so high, I'd have been worried for those people. Woosh, a thief coulda' come up like Speedy Gonzales and snatched those barrels right off of their backs. Geez, then those poor folks would be shivering in the cold in their birthday suits. And then Uncle Sam would have had to dispatch law enforcement to cite those poor folks for public indecency. See, there's just no winning for losing!

I agree that it's a great cartoon! I wonder if the barrels have an even more sinister undertone of metaphorical reasoning still yet unmentioned? Are the citizens of the US soon to become panicking schools of fish, swimming in said barrels? I'd say there'd be no shortage of nations willing to take that first shot. And look at some of the local powers that be, preparing to hand out the bullets too! It's such a simple statement in that cartoon, but it definitely speaks volumes.

I say that poor family in the picture better take the thirteen dollars in that envelope, run to Goodwill and buy some clothes, pronto! And they better feed that poor cat before the rest of his fur falls off.