Toon: Wisconsin's Malice

[gregcrawford]

"Wisconsin's Malice." Editorial cartoon by Gregory Crawford. © 2015 World News Trust
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[paulkienitz]

1. if it was salmon and brie I might understand... but POTATOES AND RICE??!?

[erronis]

2. They have made themselves a caricature of themselves.

It's almost a game - testing the limits:

How low can you go before the M$M even notices?

[SoapBox]

3. Just...Die...Quickly

That is their party moto, isn't it?!?

[Gothmog]

4. Great cartoon

[the_sly_pig]

5. Oh Wisconsin...

If it needs explaining that education, compassion and empathy are ends in themselves you are already lost. West Michigan.

[SpankMe]

6. A little perspective on this:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/taxes/wifoodstamps.asp

They don't exactly ban the purchase of these items, but there are certain restrictions that are somewhat bizarre.

[gregcrawford]

8. The phrase, "NOT ALLOWED" sure sounds like a ban to me...

... Here's the list to which I referred when writing this cartoon.

https://www.dhs.wisconsin.gov/publications/p4/p44578.pdf

And while the Snopes entry definitely clarifies certain elements of the discussion, and rightly exposes the sensationalism of too many headlines, the larger point is that Republican-controlled legislatures are relentlessly victimizing those least able to defend themselves through legal channels, while corporate interests that exploit legal loopholes created for their benefit by said Republican-controlled legislatures routinely steal more from the residents of the state, by several orders of magnitude, than the entire S.N.A.P. program costs.

[Judi Lynn]

7. Thanks. Well expressed. What a shabby shame to have these people in charge anywhere. n/t