Posted on 04/18/2009 11:15:16 PM PDT by Squidpup
Seventy five years ago is going to seem like yesterday here in just a second.
Take a look at this cartoon published in the Chicago Tribune on April 21, 1934 titled, “PLANNED ECONOMY OR PLANNED DESTRUCTION?”
It’s true for most that their sense of history usually extends into the past only about as far as the day they decided to start paying attention to what was going on around them.
An old saying goes something like this: “History, it is said, repeats itself. Few but are reminded almost every day of something that has gone before.”
Every “crisis” seems brand new, any manner of “suffering” in today’s world could never have been imagined nor experienced by mankind in the past…so people think as they muddle through their day.
“So, the obvious rejoinder to this cartoon is that everything worked out in the end for Roosevelt, so why not for Obama?”
I jsut can’t believe that with the amount of spending being done and the taxes that will be required, that we can sustain these levels and the projected rates he is going. His spending on social engineering is dwarfing anything that Roosevelt could have hoped to accomplish.
Yes. Please note my post #5 in this thread.
"A native Ohian and semiprofessional baseball pitcher in his youth, Carey Orr took the money he earned from baseball and enrolled in the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. After a humble first newspaper job with the Chicago Examiner at fifteen dollars per week, Orr, at the age of twenty-four, joined the Nashville Tennessean as a full-time editorial cartoonist. By 1917, with his cartoons appearing in many national publications, Orr accepted an offer to work for the Chicago Tribune, in which his political cartoons were regularly featured on the front page for more than forty-six years. A crusader for public safety, Orr brandished his pen against gangsterism, waste and corruption in government, prohibition, communism, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal. Orr was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1960." Syracuse University Library http://library.syr.edu/digital/exhibits/c/cartoonists/orr.htm
"Gruff, one-eyed Cartoonist Orr does not hate Franklin Roosevelt either, simply considers him "despicable like a snake." He likes to picture the President as a Red, a would-be Hitler, a gorilla-like monster of Fear, Doubt and Ruin. Other cartoonists consider Carey Orr an exponent of "brute force, which gets reaction not converts." Nevertheless Publisher McCormick continues to play his product day after day on the front page." Oct. 26, 1936 Time Magazine http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,788569-3,00.html
"Orr was one of the more notable conservative editorial cartoonist, and he spent many a cartoon knocking FDR and/or Communism (In another unique aspect of his work, Orr drew his cartoons BEFORE showing them to his editor to be accepted or denied, a very uncommon practice for editorial cartoonists, who usually get sketches approved first). Orr did the comic strip The Kernel Cootie, and his niece, Martha Orr, created the comic strip that would ultimately evolve into Mary Worth, which remains in print today! After returning to Chicago, Orr began teaching cartooning at the same school he went to as a teenager. While there, around 1917, he taught a young cartoonist who never quite made it as a newspaper cartoonist. That cartoonist, by the name of Walt Disney, eventually ended up going into a related field." Comic Book Resources http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2009/03/15/a-month-of-pulitzer-prize-winning-cartoons-day-15/
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My apologies dear sir, I saw the post and liked it, but as usual was just reading through and didn’t take note of who wrote it. I take it you are “silver-lining” kind of fellow. I try to be sometimes, but it does not necessarily always work. C’est la vie.
The Cloward-Piven strategy for overturning a functioning government. These deficits will bankrupt the United States. http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/09/barack_obama_and_the_strategy.html This means that in order to usher in a complete and long-term-welfare/socialist state, the powers that be must first destroy the existing short-term-welfare/capitalist state.
"The President seized upon a wonderful opportunity in a way that was at once sagacious and dynamic. With insistent determination and great boldness he sought to render the very emergency of the nation, the wreck of business and the fears for the future, the means of establishing his authority and leading both Congress and the country into a more hopeful and resolute temper. In a true sense the public disaster was transmuted into an official triumph for him. But that was because he appeared to the American people to be riding the whirlwind and directing the storm. The country was ready and even anxious to accept new leadership. From President Roosevelt it got a rapid succession of courageous speeches and effort and achievement which inclined multitudes of his fellow citizens to acclaim him as the Heavensent man of the hour."
Indeed. This was posted more than 2 months ago.
Search is your friend.
“just change the names and it still fits today...”
In one case (at least) you don’t have to change the name: “Ickes” is Harold Ickes Sr. who was the father of the current “Ickes” behind a lot of Obama’s marxist policies (he also worked in the BJC administration). His father was a fellow traveler who worked deep within the FDR administration doing much of the same.
IIRC, bubba xlinton & Ickes,Jr traveled to Moscow together?
Yes - that is a fact. I believe that they were roomates at either Yale or Oxford IIRC.
Thanks for posting. That should be required reading for everyone.
Your post sent a chill up my spine and prompted me to email it to several people.
I searched for a number of possible titles and found nothing. Can you provide link to prior?
Thanks
Ok - didn’t search for non-Chicago Tribune titles:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2232052/posts
An aunt of mine worked for the Trib for over 40 years, she was the Boss (manager) of the 'Reference Room' (before computers), and knew 'The Col' personally. He was a hero in our household when I was growing up and the Tribune was THE only paper we were 'allowed' to read.
(The McCormick Place convention center on Chi's lake front is named after him.)
Hey, I missed it two months ago. Thanks for posting it.
Terrific history, thanks. My how times have changed, without changing at all...
BTTT for anyone who may have missed it.
PING!
In cased you missed this!
Obama parties like it’s 1934!
1934 Chicago Tribune Cartoon Asks – Planned Economy Or Planned Destruction?
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