Stimulus projects to feature new emblem

The Washington Business Journal ^ | March 3, 2009 | Kent Hoover

[CedarDave]

President Barack Obama unveiled a new emblem Tuesday that will be used on projects funded by the economic stimulus package.

The emblem covers most of the basics of the $787 billion package — gears representing infrastructure, a red cross representing health care, a plant representing green technology — as well as flag-like stars and Recovery.gov, the Web site that will track the progress of stimulus projects.

A White House press release said the emblem “is a symbol of President Obama’s commitment to the American people to invest their tax dollars wisely to put Americans back to work.”

[silverleaf]

OMG

[Hacklehead]

[silverleaf]

the fixation on symbology is beyond disturbing

[Zathras]

The Hammer and Sicle logo must be copywrited.

[RikaStrom]

hopeychangey

[GonzoGOP]

Lest see, A nation with only 8 states remaining to symbolize the divided union. There is a broken machine (note gears don't touch) to symbolize our nations shattered industrial base. A plant with 2 out of three leaves cut off, to symbolize the drop in crop yields due to the ban on “Evil” industrial agriculture. All surrounded by a big empty O. Yep works as a symbol for me.

[silverleaf]

it’s missing a pig

[Paladin2]

It’s a Great Leap Forward, it is.

[tx_eggman]

“Words, just words. Symbols, just symbols.” Just more standard propaganda from the Marxist president

All cloud, no rain ...

[NavyCanDo]

The NRA eagle is the first thing I thought of, as well.

[Paladin2]

"and a pot plant"

And just HOW do you know that's a pot plant? LOL

[doodad]

I imagine that is the gears grinding us to dust and then we are pushing up daisies.

[ZX12R]

In the end, these symbols will live in infamy.

[HonorInPa]

Gee - this from the first like in Wikipedia about the Nazi movement... “The twentieth century German Nazi Party was notable for its extensive use of graphic symbolism”

[rednesss]

Not a single sickle and hammer??

[smith288]

Notice the gears arent touching indicating it doesnt work. Perfect for this symbol.

[AmericanVictory]

What about the French tickler representing the stimulus.
Well all be able to identify with it after we’ve been you-know-what.

[CedarDave]

Seven and a half stars, two gear wheels with a red cross in one of them and a pot plant.

LOL!

[untenured]

The NRA eagle is the first thing I thought of, as well.

Me too. In the 1930s an extensive campaign followed to intimidate, and even to arrest and try, those who failed to follow NRA "guidelines." Interested people may want to Google the Schechter brothers or Jack Magid for details of FDR's tender affections for those who weren't getting with the program with sufficient alacrity.

[Sir Gawain]

We're going to be Dizzy with Success!