The New New Deal

http://www.MarkFiore.com Will the stimulus plan have a new new deal in this political cartoon? See how CEOs and politicians roll up their sleeves for the new and improved WPA. A MarkFiore.com animation.

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[Krys1304]

@Gammaclipper Absolutely! Paying a "living wage" is like fighting with your hand tied behind your back. If that can be eliminated, the US manufacturers could bring down their labour costs and compete directly with China and Vietnam at their own game. Everybody wins! (unless you are working in said factory, of course, but that's just detail stuff).

[Thespians1]

ugh if only

[studentofsmith]

The New Deal is a classic example of the Broken Window Fallacy.

watch?v=gG3AKoL0vEs

[pimmivenema]

hmmm somthing about jobs but further i don't get this 1

[Gammaclipper]

@newave123456

Imma callin bullshit. Pics or it didn't happen.

[newave123456]

@Gammaclipper With that first notion, I agree. But on the outsourced jobs part I disagree. Bill Gates went to congress and asked for more visas so that he could hire indians to do the job. When asked why he said "because their is not enough skilled labor on the market". Afterwards, Microsoft fired a chunk of engineers from the US and hired more indians. Companies from the US & abroad go to 3rd world countries and educate people for pink and white collard jobs. Its strictly about profits.

[Gammaclipper]

@newave123456

Actually no. While automation will always be the lower cost alternative some governments have attempted to slow automation in order to preserve assembly line knuckle-draggers' jobs by enacting unfair taxes and other penalties on automation. So there really is a difference. And not all jobs being outsourced are manufacturing, many of them are engineering and that is mostly the fault of the teachers' unions reducing the quality and quantity of education.

[newave123456]

@Gammaclipper Where have I heard those talking points before? Hmmmm on fox maybe? If robots took our jobs, then why are companies shipping them overseas?  Don't robots labor cost the same (free) everywhere? Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaahah­ahahaha.... too funny!

[HerrSchenkel]

Wow, this is close to self-parody. If I wasn't familiar with Mr Fiore's work, I would have assumed that the images of the working people were satirical hyperbole comparing modern liberal sensibilities to that of the Bolsheviks. I guess the fact that they resemble old Soviet posters was a complete accident.

Also, LOL @ private work being swapping useless pieces of paper. 'Cuz we all know that the evil white CEO's that hoard all their money also pay other white men to do nothing.

[Gammaclipper]

@z3r0t0l3r4ns

Robots can do most manufacturing a lot faster and more precisely than people. That's why the number of manufacturing jobs has gone down, not the capacity.

The real reason for the trade deficit is that it isn't profitable to do business here anymore due to minimum wage laws and other regulations that have artificially raised the price of everything produced in the US. Cut the costs of doing business here and business will come back. The state can't spend its way out of debt.