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What are your thoughts on this political cartoon?
Posted on 6/6/14 at 12:20 am
Posted on 6/6/14 at 12:20 am
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Posted on 6/6/14 at 12:24 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
Incoming downvotes
Posted on 6/6/14 at 12:31 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
I wish we were more economically free.
Posted on 6/6/14 at 12:35 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
Lots of false attribution going on. The kinds of issues seen in the comic seem to stem from government meddling in housing markets, creating a very un-free market which artificially inflates housing prices, suppresses interest rates, and causes credit shortages for potential buyers.
Posted on 6/6/14 at 12:51 am to olddawg26
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, I'm not endorsing the cartoon Posted on 6/6/14 at 12:53 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
I'm going to go way out on a limb and guess that the editors at the Puget Sound Business Journal lean toward a pro-big government, pro-government regulation outlook.
Posted on 6/6/14 at 1:05 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
"Free Market Capitalism"?
The basic premise is flawed, "too big to fail" is not a hallmark of a free market.
By the way, in our modern mobile economy there is always a goodly amount of unoccupied homes. There are always folks who make abysmal fiscal decisions and who are not ever going to be able to be fiscally responsible. The cartoon is slightly ironic but in reality it's a non sequitur.
The political cartoonist who drew this probably lives in a refrigerator box under an overpass; possibly a frustrated PolySci major at one time. Envy breeds this "Eat the Rich" mentality. God bless 'em!
The basic premise is flawed, "too big to fail" is not a hallmark of a free market.
By the way, in our modern mobile economy there is always a goodly amount of unoccupied homes. There are always folks who make abysmal fiscal decisions and who are not ever going to be able to be fiscally responsible. The cartoon is slightly ironic but in reality it's a non sequitur.
The political cartoonist who drew this probably lives in a refrigerator box under an overpass; possibly a frustrated PolySci major at one time. Envy breeds this "Eat the Rich" mentality. God bless 'em!
Posted on 6/6/14 at 1:12 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
Liberals can't even figure out what free market capitalism is. It's a very simple concept and they have no grasp of it. It's nuts.
Posted on 6/6/14 at 4:10 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
Homelessness is a complex issue and in most of the cases is brought on by personal failure in the real world. The qualifier being MOST, not all.
Posted on 6/6/14 at 4:34 am to themunch
I agree with themunch. A homeless person has typically made a lot more than one bad choice in life. With that said even the best economy in the world will still have homeless people.
Cartoon is trash also.
Cartoon is trash also.
Posted on 6/6/14 at 4:46 am to JustinBieberFan
The cartoon is depicting homeless as those who cannot afford housing purely on economic grounds and not including real life issues that are causation for the state of homelessness. If people are 'given' funding for housing but are not set to be functionally prepared for life, they are going to fail again and so will the economic institutions providing this funding.
Posted on 6/6/14 at 4:55 am to themunch
Well said themunch 
Posted on 6/6/14 at 6:00 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
Puget Sound Business Journal - Well, since the minimum wage in Seattle is now $15/hour, they can get a job at McDonalds and then get a govt loan and buy a brand new 2400 sq/ft home.
Posted on 6/6/14 at 6:05 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
That is not free market capitalism. Freee market capitalism would build homes folks could afford. That looks like government planning, and the bubble burst.
Posted on 6/6/14 at 6:22 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
It's anti free-market propaganda.
Posted on 6/6/14 at 6:51 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
I'm sure this board blames it on mortgages the government forced banks to give to black people.
Posted on 6/6/14 at 6:53 am to Tigah in the ATL
Do you carry a deck of race cards with you at all times?
Posted on 6/6/14 at 6:58 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
That communist can draw too 
Posted on 6/6/14 at 6:59 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
Un-free market capitalism (aka, socialism) = homeless people on both sides.
That's equality me and my fellow comrades can support....
That's equality me and my fellow comrades can support....
Posted on 6/6/14 at 7:01 am to goatmilker
Hell, if there were that many homeless people living across the street from me....I'd move out of my house, too.
Why doesn't the city do something about those vagrants monopolizing the park and hurting property values like that?
Why doesn't the city do something about those vagrants monopolizing the park and hurting property values like that?
This post was edited on 6/6/14 at 7:04 am
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