Best political cartoon ever, "Bernanke for President" (thanks to Chuck Asay)

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  1. Pollycy

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    THIS is exactly what's wrong with the entire rotten political and economic situation in this country!
    A picture can be worth 1,000 words, and this masterful political cartoon by Chuck Asay speaks many, many more.

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    By Chuck Asay, as it appeared in the Colorado Springs Gazette, 10 Sep 12. THANK YOU, CHUCK! NO ONE COULD HAVE DESCRIBED IT BETTER!

    Whether "Leader", "President", "Führer", or whatever -- Ben "Bailout" Bernanke is the man with the Plan... for a worthless American dollar and endless debt!
     
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    Gross oversimplification.
     
  3. dujac

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    Pollycy Well-Known Member

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    Hi, Jac! Good to see your software is still capable of responding... sort of. Got anything specific to comment on in the Asay political cartoon, or is this just another one of your nondescript regurgitations about nothing in particular? I've told you before, that Q&A intercept automatons can easily be modified to mimic human responses with just a few more lines of code....
     
  5. dujac

    dujac Well-Known Member

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    i would think that anybody with a brain can see that the cartoon is ridiculously inaccurate

    bernanke is no super-rich puppet master, he's a modest public servant and academic


    exactly what do you think i am?
     
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    That's right, he needs a VP to be named along side him.
     
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    A rabid statist who insists on defending the status quo?

    Just a guess.

    You have to undestand that those who question the status quo are all unenlightened and dim-witted. So perhaps you can shed some light on the subject.

    First of all, is the Fed a monopoly? If not, why not?
     
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    you've made a mistaken guess, i'm defending the truth and i'm not a statist
     
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    I am not familiar with latest tv cartoons, but if this guy is on television, he is likely not the puppet master
     
  10. montra

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    What is the truth?
     
  11. dujac

    dujac Well-Known Member

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    there are special interests that put out lots of misinformation about the fed

    for example this:

    in the movie 'freedom to fascism' russo says president wilson said, "i am a most unhappy man. i have unwittingly ruined my country."

    it isn't true, wilson did not say that, in fact he was proud of the federal reserve act legislation
     
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    I'm not here to defend some movie I've never seen.

    Again I will ask you, is the Fed a monopoly? If not, why not?
     
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    who cares, i'm addressing the misinformation propaganda regarding the fed, like what's in the op
     
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    Who cares? I guess no one does, but last I checked monopolies are illegal......except when it's "convenient" I suppose.

    The Fed is the ONLY vehicle that the state has for running up massive debt. WIthout them, it would not be possible to put the Republic in such fiscal jeapardy to the point of threatening its very survival.

    But then, who cares, right? Certainly not you.
     
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    you're completely mistaken again

    and i don't support the debt level, who does?

    also, the fact is that the fed lends to member banks, not congress
     
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    If you disagree with Bernanke on those points then why do you defend the policies of the Fed and dis this thread as being "propaganda"? Bernanke is not just some innocent public servant, dujac. Wake up! He's one of the biggest powerbrokers in the world. He works directly with the European Central Banks and the International Monetary Fund. And none of what these people do is good for anybody who works for a living in the USA.
     
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    what points


    again, i don't defend the fed, i defend telling the truth about the fed


    because it is misinformation propaganda


    what is he guilty of?

    then why isn't bernanke a multimillionaire like ron paul?

    what's wrong with working with other central banks?
     
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    What does Ben Bernanke's net worth have to do with this thread?
    What does Ron Paul (much less Ron Paul's net worth) have to do with this thread?

    My guess is that you're just trolling, as usual.
     
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    Bernanke isn't even close to the top of the Food chain. The President and Congress have the power to remove him immediately if they want to. In fact, they could easily dismantle the entire Federal Reserve tomorrow if they wanted to.
     
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    the op suggest that bernanke is the past, present and future defacto president

    if he's a power greater than the president, why doesn't he have the trappings of that position

    i.e., great wealth, ability to control high-level politicians, a vast organization working for his personal benefit & etc?
     
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    The only response you could give to your dodge was another dodge. I should've seen that one coming.
     
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    Ummm, where do you get that this cartoon addresses the next worth of the Fed Chair?

    You seem to have some serious reading comprehension problems.
     
  23. Pollycy

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    First, for those who don't know much about the most powerful man who deals with the economy of the United States, here's a relatively benign bio: http://news.yahoo.com/chicago-teachers-strike-talks-fail-030846765.html

    Since August 2007, Ben "Bailout" Bernanke been recklessly "printing" hundreds of billions of worthless new dollars and flooding the planet with them. When foreigners couldn't buy up our debt fast enough, Bernanke started creating even more money out of thin air and using that to buy U. S. Treasurys. It's all a fraud-balloon, Jac, it's all nothing but an extravagant, irresponsible Keynesian exercise in "kicking the can down the road". A dangerous road. A road that will lead to insolvency, bankruptcy, debt repudiation, and, possibly, war. Not some little pissant "police action" of the kinds we've had so many of since WWII -- I mean a WAR, which will hit us when we are at our weakest. Bernanke has given us funding for Obama's idiotic "stimulus", as well as "Quantitative Easing I", "Quantitative Easing II", "Twist I", "Twist II", and lots of under-the-table purchases of toxic debt in both the USA and in Europe. He'll be rolling out a "Quantitative Easing III" this month... unless the Fed decides to call it something else because "we the people" are already sick to death of Bernanke and anything that even sounds like "quantitative easing"! :puke:But a turd by any other name is still, well... take a deep breath!

    I cannot convince you of anything; past interactions have shown me that clearly. This is mostly for the benefit of those who don't understand that whether we have an Idiot Bush, or an Idiot Obama in the White House, it doesn't make any real difference -- as long as Central Bankers like Bernanke, Draghi, and Lagarde are running the economy of the world, the rest of us are SCREWED!

    Now, please tell us all how you know what Bernanke's personal financial fortunes are? You seem to be certain that he's just another worker-bee schlub who toils along, working for wages. Ha! What a laugh! Even YOU surely know better than that....
     
  24. dujac

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    either you're pretending not to understand the obvious

    or you don't grasp the point of why some men want to be power brokers

    but, you go ahead and explain to me what you think the meaning of the cartoon is




    if that were true we'd be seeing spikes in price inflation across the board, but we aren't

    and of course, the federal doesn't print any dollars, not one
     
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    Umm, it's pretty simple. The driving force behind our economic, fiscal, and monetary policy is the Fed, and not Obama or any other President or political party.

    I suggest you lay off your lame attacks on Ron Paul, and actually try to make some sense.
     

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