[gridlock]

Let us critique this design.

The stars are arranged a rectangular grid, rather than in staggered rows, like the 50-star flag. This makes the field look less like the flag than it should.

"RECOVERY.GOV" is the name of a website, not the name of a government office. Websites are ephemeral things, with no substance, making this logo look insubstantial.

The gears do not mesh, and never can. The keyway on the larger gear is a cross, which is never used because it is structurally weak and difficult to machine. To anybody with even a small familiarity with machinery, looking at those gears causes almost physical pain.

The plant is small and insubstantial, not robust and productive. I have a lot of wild mint in my garden, and this looks like the little weeds I have to pull every week.

The three sectors, blue for government, red for industrial and green for agricultural, are not in the proper proportion. The government sector is half of the total pie. As much as the Obamites might like that idea, we are not there just yet.

The blue government sector is over top of the productive sectors, which suggests a level of government control which is seen by many as a negative thing.

[CrazyIvan]

The gears do not mesh, and never can. The keyway on the larger gear is a cross, which is never used because it is structurally weak and difficult to machine. To anybody with even a small familiarity with machinery, looking at those gears causes almost physical pain.

Very observant! As a machinist, this is the visual equal of fingernails on a blackboard. Also the teeth have parallel surfaces, something else that literally doesn't mesh.

[Right Wing Assault]

The gears do not mesh, and never can. The keyway on the larger gear is a cross, which is never used because it is structurally weak and difficult to machine.

That's the first thing I noticed.

[maica]

Excellent critique!!! The government suppressing ineffective industry and weak agriculture is the predominant message.

Not very “hope”ful.

[Walmartian]

The gears do not mesh, and never can.

I was just noticing that when I read your post. I'm going to draw those gears in 3d and show they don't work. Who needs gear theory.

[21twelve]

Nice comments regarding the symbolism.

Here’s a bump to an old thread about a booklet written in 1938 called “The Revolution Was” about FDR and the New Deal. It makes me SICK to see this all happening AGAIN!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/929392/posts

Excerpt:

The scientific study of revolution included of course analysis of opportunity. First and always the master of revolutionary technic is an opportunist. He must know opportunity when he sees it in the becoming; he must know how to stalk it, how to let it ripen, how to adapt his means to the realities.......

The Great Depression as it developed here was such an opportunity as might have been made to order.....

...But never before had there been one so hard and never before had there been the danger that a revolutionary elite would be waiting to take advantage of it.

This revolutionary elite was nothing you could define as a party. It had no name, no habitat, no rigid line.... What it represented was a quantity of bitter intellectual radicalism infiltrated from the top downward as a doctorhood of professors, writers, critics, analysts, advisers, administators, directors of research, and so on a prepared revolutionary intelligence in spectacles. There was no plan to begin with. But there was a shibboleth that united them all: “Capitalism is finished.”

The prestige of the elite was natural for many reasons; but it rested also upon one practical consideration. When the opportunity came a Gracchus would be needed. The elite could produce one. And that was something the Communist Party could not hope to do.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Subtle. Very effective analysis.

(On a conscious level - Did they MEAN those implications? Or did they happen because (unconsciously) the Obamabots THINK that way and thus (naturally) could think of NOTHING that could work efficiently in a manufactoriubg plant?

[Atlas Sneezed]

Excellent analysis! I agree especially about the gears, which have different pitch, and thus can not mesh.

I also note that when rotates like below, the government half (which is on top, and dominates) works with the enviro-green "lower jaw" to be prepared to devour private industry, Pac-man style. I'll let someone else animate it.

[stayathomemom]

The plant is small and insubstantial, not robust and productive.

Leaves of three, let it be.

I think the temptation to take a can of black spray paint to these logos and superimpose another is going to be to hard for some to resist.

[Lorica]

Well done!