The Free Market Clapper

Turn capitalism on or off however you choose. Just Clap On when times are good and government is the problem. Clap Off when you've got problems and the glorious state can provide.

Tue December 2, 2008 12:00 AM PST

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Mark Fiore is an editorial cartoonist and animator whose work has appeared in the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Examiner, and dozens of other publications. He is an active member of the American Association of Editorial Cartoonists, and has a web site featuring his work.


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That has been on of the best videos i've seen all year. Oh, the great world how will you save us now?

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Masterfully done

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FANTASTIC!
This should be shown on prime time TV as a commercial. Or on SNL or Real Time as an opening skit or something.

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Brilliant!

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*sigh* so true...

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On and Off free market does not work...never will. Free market all the time will work. The week businesses will get crushed and cease to exist meanwhile the most current and successful business models will grow in strength. Business is not for everyone.

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Simply Amazing....

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funny!! great job.

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clever, not really

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I love it! Nice work!

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Yay!

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hahahahahahah

oh my god this is amazing

of course, american corporations have always been like this (remember that the american corporate community wanted FASCISM to protect themselves from the free market in the 1930s - and FDR nearly gave it to them)

anyway, keep that clapper on "On" and things will be fine. Believe it or not, NOTHING is "too big to fail".

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OUTSTANDING. Exposes the hypocrisy of both Parties and the corporate deadbeats who look to the taxpayers to bail out their mismanagement. ALL these bailouts are completely unConstitutional and a violation of the public trust (assuming there is any). They're all scoundrels.

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The cartoon is funny, but wrong. If by "capitalism" you mean the free market, then big business is ALWAYS against it, in good times and bad -- and if by "capitalism" you mean the regime of state-granted corporate privilege, then big business is ALWAYS for it. Only one setting. See http://tinyurl.com/5mcfod

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Great video!

More and more, progressives and libertarians are finding common ground against our imperial state's wars and economic depredations.

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