Bob Row's thread. Updated pg.15: 20 years in 3 minutes

[Lima]

We can understand why you are a so reputable professional. Congratulations, great work Bob.

[Bob Row]

Caesar, Alexandra, Orianne: You're very gentle. As I said, this last one is a very fast (and careless) take. I posted it only because of Scott's defiance towards my "personal courage". The reason?: he's the boss of the General Confederation of Workers' Unions in Argentina. Mainstream media enjoy presenting him as a fearsome character. Of course, he exerts his political power. But I, myself, fear more of others: by the end of 2001 the respectable Banks evaporated the savings of thousands of poor idiots like me and run. Well, now this is not an unusual happening in other places too, right?. Let's go back to Art, which is a better subject.

[Caesar]

Dear Bob, thank You for Your explanation!
I've been afraid of unions since ever after I left University and started working, because, in Italy, in the last decades they are only ritual self-defined defenders of workers as an indistict mass and took hostages a great deal of educated specialists and managers (not allowing them independent unions) as to safeguard their power and contracts made to keep alive their privileges also on behalf of the companies pleasing them for their exchanges.
You're anyway right, the financial institution cupola, as it is still now, with all their rating agencies side-dishes, is the worst cancer (the right term for what is the most dangerous mafia ever).
They're as mischievous as stupid, a terrible mix. They did what happended to Your savings, one way or the other, several times, up to this last crisis we're still in (I remember of the terrific Argentina crack and consequences directy from some people I knew then, in particular a Navy admiral who lost all his money too).
They never really pay, they gracefully let us do it, while they resume their bubbles buildings and bonuses cashing, speculating and singing in chorus, while governements (especially US and UK where many of them live and operate also now that Asia is financially going to dwarf them all), which are supposed to defend citizens, let them going on along that line, neither ruling seriously nor striking them hardly enough for their responsibilities. This has now little to do with free market and competion I'm afraid, the usual excuse, on the contrary ...

[screenpainter]

hilarious~ and as always skillfully and masterfully drawn.

[jibes]

I'm not a big fan of political cartooning but you do a very fine job at it!!!

[hanzz]

Great thread.I browsed through it again.Always a delight.

[Bob Row]

Hanzz: thank you, pal. always welcome.
Jibes: I appreciate you made an exemption with my work.
Gzairborne: Glad you like them.
Caesar: It's pleasant to find a common ground despite our dfferent backgrounds. As they say, it's easy to pull out oil from a stone than a human behaving from a financial capitalist.
I hope you'll like this new comparison of old and present state of Italy.

1) At the 150 anniversary of the Italian Unification, the richer northerners prefer to forget of the old champion Garibaldi and celebrate the faun-like Berlusconi instead.
2) Disoriented Castro brothers seems to swift from Fidel's old Soviet model to try Raul's careful aperture to market Chinese one.

[Alexandra]

Wow Bob, these are great. It is sad that so many do not understand, or turn their heads.

[coops]

GReat work again Bob, love looking at your work

[Caesar]

Dear Bob, what a sad trajectory for our country history, isn't it? Your funny vignette summarizes it quite clearly. more than century ago Italian great men and politicians had less money at the end of their responsibilities than when they entered politics, now it's exactly the contrary ...
A great idea also because it reminded me of the Bruno Bozzetto cartoon entitled "Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune" on Debussy music with that same title.
Have a look: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrBGp...eature=related