Stupid toon that completely misses the point

[n2doc]

If there WERE jobs available for the taking then we wouldn't HAVE such protests. Idiot.

[surrealAmerican]

1. There are so many clever cartoons that do a great job of ...

... illustrating the issues, that I can almost forget that dishonest idiocy like this is also represented in the medium.

[Drale]

2. I have noticed

That all the people they show on the "news" are alway hipsters, basically people you stereotypically think of as not wanted to work, but I bet thats planned by the "news".

[Scuba]

3. Where's that shovel? We have 1,000's applying for one position! ...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2068657

[Enrique]

4. wtf

they're fighting tooth-and-nail to fire that guy with the shovel. He's the "government spending" they hate so much.

[Tesha]

5. Where (in what publications) did this appear?

[n2doc]

7. Not sure

His blog is here


http://www.halltoons.blogspot.com/

but I found it on a cartoon page

http://editorialcartoonists.com/index.cfm

[Brickbat]

6. Yes, so many shovel-ready jobs are sitting idle because of a lack of skilled workers. Blue-collar

work that provides a modestly middle-class lifestyle is simply begging for workers. Mm-hm.

[PatSeg]

8. That's pathetic

Most of the people at OWS are average Americans - all age groups, from all walks of life.