A rising tide lifts all boats (in the same body of water!)

[Humor_In_Cuneiform]

[mediaman007]

1. How does the right argue this?

I think that its a pretty good analogy.

[Humor_In_Cuneiform]

8. I've only ever heard them use it as a slogan without a response.

They love quoting JFK, who they attribute it to.

I wish it would become a standard reply, All Boats in the same body of water!!

[Joanne98]

2. I love it. K&R!

[ellenfl]

3. i think the new version is 'a rising tide lifts all yachts'. eom

[Humor_In_Cuneiform]

10. When the neocons instigate the rising tide, it definitely only lifts

yachts.

hehe

[DerBeppo]

4. But...

If the water keeps pouring into the lake, won't it--according to your drawing--eventually spill over the edge of the dam, thus proving them right? As a static image it works, but I think the analogy may be flawed if thought of in action.

[Humor_In_Cuneiform]

9. You have a point, except the dam is meant to be high enough

above the upper lake that only the few drops you can see falling over and down the dam will make it. And those drops went over the edge cause of the motorboat with the skiers going by. Otherwise not even a few drops.

I have no doubt that it would be built up still higher by the powers that be if necessary.

Also the lower body of water is at elevation 350' whereas the upper lake is at 5000 feet.

The lowlands would flood way before the rising tide could ever get anywhere near the upper lake.

[DerBeppo]

12. Ah.

thanks for that.

[Ino]

5. The trickle down dam should be an eyedropper... drip, drip, drip

with a huge pipe in the poor pond siphoning off the gas prices/outsourcing/healthcare costs. And an equally huge pipe of tax cuts at the top.

[johnaries]

6. Love it! Bookmarked!

I'm going to send this to some Libertarian friends...

[sweetheart]

7. Like the image

A high tide lifts all boats is more appropriate to economic hegemony,
but yet falls to a similar maxim as you illustrated; tidal variation indeed.

[conscious evolution]

11. What happens when you have a short anchor chain?

[Humor_In_Cuneiform]

14. I'm not sure. Guess it might mean that you get carried away

by the greedy high tides of GOP supply side(trickle down voodoo economics that begin with tax cuts for the wealthiest).

When you wake up the next morning, you realize that overnight you lost your way.

So you turn the ships over to a different person(s) / party to bring them safely into dock. Who then fix them and resupply them adequately and to eliminate that huge difference between the 2 bodies of water.

[conscious evolution]

15. You get swamped

[Hubert Flottz]

13. Sometimes...

But you're dealing with the Reich Wing now...

[malaise]

16. Clever

Really cool