Most Tucsonans are familiar with David Fitzsimmons, staff cartoonist for the Arizona Daily Star. He has raised millions for Tucson’s charities for a quarter century by being the provocative, funny and entertaining master of ceremonies at thousands of charity events. His cartoons are syndicated worldwide by Cagle Cartoons.
This month he was asked by the curator of the Norman Rockwell Museum to loan two of his original Lincoln-themed cartoons to be part of an exhibition titled "The Lincoln Memorial Illustrated", commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Lincoln Memorial Dedication, set to open in May 2022 at the Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts and then travel to the Concord Museum in the fall.
For those of you not familiar with him and his work, I thought it would fun to spread the word. His politics and mine also match up well. Many of his cartoons can be found here.
On Facebook, Fitz mostly posts his cartoons and ‘Andy Borowitz’ style witticisms. This week, however, he posted some ‘found’ memes that you may have seen but worth a share. Since memes are typically one-dimensional I thought I’d unpack them a bit. I just wanted to use the word unpack in a sentence.
Both of these memes are spot on. Just yesterday in the Washington Post: The difference between the Trump tax cuts and the Biden relief bill, in one chart.
Trickle-down economics, also known as trickle-down theory or the horse and sparrow theory or supply-side economics, is the economic proposition that taxes on businesses and the wealthy in society should be reduced as a means to stimulate business investment in the short term and benefit society at large in the long term. To ‘unpack’ that, it’s the wealthy telling the middle and lower classes to bend over for the big one. With thorns.
Here’s an article (2017) from the Washington Post on the failure of this theory in my home state of Kansas.
I am assuming this meme is related to the National Organization for Women. In searching their website I couldn’t find where they address these issues specifically, but LOTS of important stuff here to consider and donate to if you can.
Let’s include my favorite CPAC National Anthem mashup in today’s post, shall we?
And the final thought…