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Should show this educational cartoon to KIDS!
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| 2/2/2010
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Posted on 02/23/2010 9:02:24 AM PST by mikelets456
What a great cartoon on Capitalism and the dangers of statism/socialism... from 1948.
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Education; History; Humor
KEYWORDS: cartoon; education; socialism
To: mikelets456
Loved it. Posted it to my FaceBook profile.
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posted on
02/23/2010 9:15:30 AM PST
by
Scutter
To: mikelets456
Interesting it is from 1948 the same year Orwell released his book 1984 which reversed the 4 and 8 to make the title.
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posted on
02/23/2010 9:21:06 AM PST
by
mc5cents
To: mikelets456
Boy, does all that sound familiar! I guess there really isn’t anything new under the sun...especially around 8:35! Was that Reagan’s ‘shining city on a hill’ there at the end?
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posted on
02/23/2010 9:21:47 AM PST
by
pillut48
("Stand now. Stand together. Stand for what is right."-Gov.Sarah Palin, "Going Rogue")
To: mikelets456
Funny how Dr. Utopia looks and smiles like the long-legged mack daddy!
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posted on
02/23/2010 9:22:44 AM PST
by
SonOfDarkSkies
(Luke 12:34 -- For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.)
To: mikelets456
I remember seeing that IN school .. ‘65 or thereabouts.
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posted on
02/23/2010 9:25:21 AM PST
by
gwilhelm56
(OBAMA ... Orwell's 1984 was a WARNING ... NOT a TEXTBOOK!!!)
To: mikelets456
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posted on
02/23/2010 9:31:37 AM PST
by
mc5cents
To: mikelets456
Posted on my facebook and also requiring my children to watch it.
Excellent and simple!
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posted on
02/23/2010 9:32:38 AM PST
by
autumnraine
(You can't fix stupid, but you can vote it out!)
To: christianhomeschoolmommaof3
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posted on
02/23/2010 10:14:56 AM PST
by
christianhomeschoolmommaof3
(Proverbs 18:2 A fool has no delight in understanding but in expressing his own heart.)
To: mikelets456
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posted on
02/23/2010 11:31:46 AM PST
by
IYAS9YAS
(The townhalls were going great until the oPods showed up.)
To: mikelets456
good stuff. I hope it can be “re-made” for the modern generation.
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