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The 1934 Political Cartoon is 32 years Pre Cloward–Piven strategy is a political strategy outlined in 1966 by American sociologists and political activists Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven. Goes to show some things never change.
The 1934 Political Cartoon is 32 years Pre Cloward–Piven strategy is a political strategy outlined in 1966 by American sociologists and political activists Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven. Goes to show some things never change.
Note this is not the full text of the article, just what was needed to depick the contents of the 1934 cartoon. By Dr. Tom Barrett {September 30, 2013} @ conservativetruth.org/article.php? www.DrTom.TV http://conservativetruth.org/article.php?id=3715
It was drawn by Casey Orr, who was very popular with Chicago Tribune readers. Because the cartoon is still true today, Democrats hate it, and some have challenged its authenticity. I think the fact that the Chicago Tribune recently republished the cartoon speaks for itself. It is also posted on the Tribune website (see LINK below). The caption says "This is a 1934 Chicago Tribune political cartoon that many say rings true in today's political and economic climate.”
The text is small in the cartoon posted on the website. I enlarged it so I could include its contents for you word for word in this piece. I didn’t want you to miss one word of the truth and wit it contains.
The title of the cartoon is the same as the title of this article. Socialists and Liberals like those in power today always equate oppressive central government to a “Planned Economy.” But central planning as practiced by Communist governments always results in economic destruction. So why do the Liberals think that government control of the economy today will end differently? Remember, “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result this time.”
Starting from the left of the cartoon we see a man in a mortarboard and gown flogging the donkey that is pulling the wagon. His tag reads, “Tugwell – Head Brain Truster.” Rex Tugwell, a very Liberal academician, was the head of FDR’s so-called “Brain Trust.” This group was full of college professors and politicians who had zero experience in business. They were supposed to come up with new ideas to kick-start the American economy following the Great Depression. The “Brain Trust” was a miserable failure.
Next we see two young men in graduation caps and gowns holding a liquor bottle labeled “Power” and shouting “Whoopee!” The sign tacked to the wagon immediately below them identifies them as “Young pinkies from Columbia & Harvard.” Many young men like this were recruited to staff New Deal Liberal programs.. Obviously all graduates of Ivy League universities are not “pinkies” (a word from that era that meant “Pinkos” or Communists). But most of them are very Liberal, and many of them who go into government get drunk on the power of their positions.
The tail gate of the wagon has this sign: “Depleting the resources of the soundest government in the world.” Three key Socialists are shown doing the depleting.
The three politicians shoveling money out of the back of the wagon are close advisors of arguably the worst president that has ever been inflicted on the United States – Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR). Unfortunately our current president thinks FDR was some kind of deity, and follows closely in his Socialist footsteps.
The first shoveler is Harold L. Ickes, FDR’s Secretary of the Interior and the Director of the Public Works Administration (PWA). In this position he decided which public works projects would be initiated and where they would be built. He never met a Socialist program he didn’t like. The biggest of the PWA projects was the Tennessee Valley Authority. Ickes used his power to pay off political donors to FDR by giving them lucrative contracts. Interestingly, Harold L. Ickes was the father of Harold M. Ickes, a key advisor to Bill Clinton. Ickes the younger graduated from Columbia!
The man with the biggest shovel is Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace, who was well-known for his associations with avowed Socialists. My readers are well aware of the treason that FDR committed when he took 539 Metric Tons of Gold from private citizens during his Gold confiscation that began on April 5, 1933. But few are aware that Wallace’s Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 greatly increased the powers of the Federal Reserve to both control the economy and to massively increase the National Debt. It also set the stage for FDR’s Executive Order 6102 which stole 40% of the wealth of Americans, and provided for 10 year prison sentences for those who refused to turn their Gold into the government.
The third man who can be seen throwing bags of money off the back of the wagon is Donald Richberg. Richberg had tremendous power in the Roosevelt administration. He was known as the “Assistant President,” who had more power than the elected Vice-President. Both Richberg and Ickes were products of the sewer of American politics, Chicago. (Yes, even back then Chicago was training and producing corrupt politicians, as it does today.)
Richberg and Ickes were leaders of the Progressive movement, another name for Liberalism. They were also important figures in the National Industrial Recovery Act, which imposed fascist codes of conduct on American industry. This Progressive act dictated how important US industries would to be run. Fortunately the National Recovery Administration was ultimately struck down by the US Supreme Court in 1935. This humiliated FDR and led to his campaign to pack the Supreme Court with more Liberal Justices.
You might miss the figure of Stalin off to the right were it not pointed out to you. He is depicted saying, “How red the sunrise is getting,” an obvious allusion to the fact that under FDR America is getting more and more “red,” the color of Communism. FDR was actually very close to Stalin.
At the bottom left there is an artist, whom I {Dr. Tom Barrett} believe is Leon Trotsky, drawing a “Plan of action for the United States.” He is seen saying, “It worked in Russia!” This fits, because Stalin expelled Trotsky from the Soviet Union because he was more interested in spreading Communism throughout the world than consolidating the ideology in the USSR. So it makes sense that Trotsky would want to spread the poison to the US.
Trotsky’s plan reads, “Spend! Spend! Spend! Under the guise of recovery – bust the government. Blame the capitalists for the failure – junk the Constitution and declare a dictatorship.”
Note this is not the full text of the article, just what was needed to depick the contents of the 1934 cartoon. By Dr. Tom Barrett @ conservativetruth.org/article.php?
INTERNET RESOURCES: 1934 Political Cartoon Posted on Chicago Tribune Website http://www.chicagotribune.com/health/sns-pod-1934-cartoon-pic,0,7114709.photo
Members of the US Congressional Progressive Caucus http://cpc.grijalva.house.gov/caucus-members/ Member Parties of the Socialist International http://www.socialistinternational.org/viewArticle.cfm?ArticlePageID=931
Website of the Democratic Socialists of America http://www.dsausa.org/
History Lesson: Democrat Progressive Caucus Organized by Socialists http://kleinonline.wnd.com/2012/04/11/history-lesson-congressional-progressive-caucus-was-founded-by-socialist-group-official-website-initially-hosted-by-democratic-socialists-of-america/#_edn1
Specifically, the aim of deliberately overloading the system so it collapses is Cloward-Piven.