S**t Creek

[Ichingcarpenter]

[MindMover]

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[riqster]

5. Truth. Nt

[SunSeeker]

17. Yes indeed. This toon was brought to you by a right winger. Google Ben Garrison.

That is why he blames the problems of the middle class on all the wrong things. This cartoon is shit.

[haikugal]

2. Keynesianism?? Debt Crisis??

I'd put trickledown and obstructionism, or something stronger. How about Reaganism and oligarchy. Otherwise yeah...shit creek and it isn't accidental.

[Warren Stupidity]

4. Yeah, WTF?

[Ichingcarpenter]

6. I didn't agree with some of the toon but

I enjoyed the spirit of it.
The Keysenian thing got me too.

I think the flood of shit creek should not be debt
but something with the banksters.

I do like the them taking our paddles.

[FredStembottom]

3. Why is Keynesianism in there?

That was abandoned long ago in favor of Voodoo Ec.

[Cryptoad]

7. Maybe one of those

Obama Hater's Cartoon!

[ErikJ]

9. And the Debt Crisis.

The Debt crisis is a RW fake crisis to justify slashing spending so they can keep the tax cuts for the 1%. And the inclusion of the IRS is another questionable one.

[truebluegreen]

12. + 100

[FredStembottom]

25. Strangely scrambled cartoon.

n/t

[Bernardo de La Paz]

15. Good question. Keynesian economics is Stimulus Spending. Not a cause but a solution of the crisis.

If the stimulus package hadn't passed in 2008/9, the USA would be like Greece and Spain now, suffering mightily under Austerity economics.

[avaistheone1]

8. BIG K&R!!

[Brigid]

10. The one-percent driving away with the paddles,

So that the rest of us have no means to cope with the catastrophe. Nice touch.

[Berlum]

11. Republicons are responsible for the flooding of Shit Creek.

[SunSeeker]

16. Yes, but you will never get that truth from this right wing cartoonist.

He blames it on the standard right wing bogeymen: the IRS, the Fed and Keynesianism. And he is dead wrong.

[SunSeeker]

13. This is misinformation. Keynesianism is not adding to the shit.

It is the abandonment of Keynesianism that has taken away the paddles. And what "Debt Crisis"? You mean the budget deficit that had been cut in half under Obama? Republicans love to cite to a nonexistent crisis to justify cuts to the middle class safety net. And what's with the emphasis on the Fed as a source of shit? The Federal Reserve is the only entity actively pursuing a stimulus effort right now. Finally, the IRS does not add shit. It is the only government agency that attempts to collect paddles from the 1%. Listing the IRS is a dead giveaway. This toon reflects Republican/Randian philosophy. Fuck Ron Paul. Fuck Rand Paul.

If you Google the guy who drew this, Ben Garrison, he is infamous as an antisemitic cartoonist. His site, noted on this toon, links to Infowars. Unbelievable that you would post this on DU.

[nadinbrzezinski]

14. Keynes does not belong in that toon

And that is just for starters. There is a lot of wrong in that cartoon. A lot of it

[RandiFan1290]

18. He's more of the Libertarian type

[Rex]

20. Ah, the partially right - partially wrong now makes sense.

Libertarians are some of the most confused individuals I've ever met.

[Rex]

19. The toon is only partially correct, the blowing bag of wind

should say Koch on it or Wall Street. Alas, even the cartoon creator cannot tell the entire truth.

[Hydra]

21. I wanted to rec this

But it's only about half right. Since others have said this is a RW cartoonist, I suppose it's amazing that he got right what he did.

The 1% will get away with it though- too many people think they'll be in the 1%...too bad they fail at math.

[MisterP]

22. no! not the Keynsianism! only the Austrians who Vienna almost tried for treason for their sabotage

of the state just before WWI started, and whose first question upon being recruited by anti-FDR corpo think tanks was "when do I get my Medicare?" can save us now!

of course, if the Dems abandon populism, then they only have themselves to blame when it's the RW that picks it up

[Liberal_in_LA]

23. kick

[Enthusiast]

24. Keynesianism?

Is Ben Garrison ideologically Teabagger?

Much of the current trouble and suffering comes from not applying adequate Keynesian stimulus.

[KamaAina]

26. The Fed?

This guy might be a Paulbot.