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Showing posts with label U.S. military. Show all posts
Showing posts with label U.S. military. Show all posts

Friday, January 17, 2014

Cartoons: Brass pork

When it comes to cutting defense spending in the U.S., nobody's happy.  Least of all the generals.  And the number of generals has been growing -- "Today's Military: The Most Top-Heavy Force in U.S. History." To get an idea of how the defense budget stacks up, take a look at this:  "America’s staggering defense budget, in charts."

Meanwhile, here's how some leading editorial cartoonists see the budget and the military.
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image: cartoon by Jack Ohman about the top-heavy U.S. military
Jack Ohman, US News
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image: cartoon by Dana Summers about the proposed leaner military
Dana Summers, US News
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image: cartoon by Matt Davies about the GOP view of defense budget cuts
Matt Davies, US News
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image: cartoon by Scott Stantis about defense spending cuts
Scott Stantis, US News
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As you were...

-- Marge


Friday, May 10, 2013

Too true and too close to home to be funny

When I saw this cartoon at The Week, I mentally processed it, said to myself "Yep, too true." and moved on.  But it's haunting me.  Needless, to say it's true of more than the military.  So here's the cartoon by Jack Ohman.

image: cartoon by Jack Ohman, The filthiest of trenches"

That's it for today, Folks.

-- Marge