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to me, this picture tells many stories of lifetimes, dreams, family and the evolution of an economic way of life. this art, it is so layered with thoughts. the american dream of a father/mother wanting to provide a better life for their children. the division of wealth and power, poverty... celebrating "labor day" when jobs are being outsourced to other countries, for their cheaper labor, world trade, (is it really fair trade?), economics... what about "made in the usa?" buying usa made (remember when wal-mart sold only usa products)... our farms disappearing... I had an elderly man, an old farmer ask me what i thought it was going to take to turn the economy around, (sly guy was trying to see who i was going to vote for!) i told him that i thought no president can do it, i told him it was people that had to do it, that we needed to go back when communities/towns depended on and helped each other, growing, buying, producing locally, to reexamine what the real american dream is, what a family is. he smiled.... (i also told him i'd like to meet the guy who invented the pay scale and kick him! he laughed...)...paper art by artist "Swoon"
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Pamspicks says:
I agree with Pete - good narrative.
Slakejustice says:
Nice capture Tim! You're very welcome for the Riverboat pic, too! It's not everyday you run across an image that old in that great of a condition. I'm going to have it printed into a 24 x 36 poster an hang it on the wall!
Petefoley says:
THis really is cool, a wonderfully narrative piece. I don't know Malcolm Gale, should I :-)
Woodstock says:
thank you all....
Ate says:
You're the man Tim... great capture along with a spectacular caption!!
Woodstock says:
i'm sorry louie... we won't send you back, it was just a joke (he's sensitive ya know) it just makes no sense to me companies out-sourcing jobs when people are in dire need of jobs. i am willing to pay more for us made products...
Woodstock says:
i have to leave with this last comment (you may hate me now)... i do not believe tax-payers of mid to low income should have to bail out wall street and the people that profited from stocks... we are already over-burdened, tired... i was self-employed for thirty years, no stocks for retirement, i received a brain injury from an accident, and now my wife works for our income,, ( i worked over 60+ hours a week to manage our household) which she had a hard job raising our children when they were little..., the poor, low-income, to mid-income families have not profited, as much as the people that have/had money to gamble with,, and did profit from the game of stocks,, it's gambling like any other chance game.. to raise tax on the wealthy makes sense to me,, since they were the ones to really play at the market of chance, the stock market.. they were the ones able to put money in and sell, and profit, as if it was also a business, no one would bail my business out if i failed.. in a way, a metaphor,, to have a slum landlord for years making rent profit from a sub-standard housing that has been paid for, only to rehab it, to kick out the one who should have benefited from the renewal, the poor person, elderly, that lived there for many years, paying on that dwelling then to try to find a place to live, because now it is trendy to live in a certain area. not that i am against rehabbing a community,, but that is a key word, a community, of mixed diversity. helping one and another,, sharing wealth, compassion, charity... I believe if we were more concerned with our own local economics of life, we would not be in such a mess. people need to realize to live within their own ecological needs.. we have grown so, so accustom to acsesses, that one does not no how to live with little.. so much panic,,, over what, big companies that exploit the poor,, we use to pay,,lets say $25 for a pair of shoes that were made in US by a person making $10 an hour, yet that job was sent overseas where the company now maybe pays the worker $10 a month, stock-holders profit, workers slave, world econmics do not work... it is still a wrong type of system, the rich get richer, the poor turn the wheels ... is it the reason for so much backlash from foreign countries? they feel our capitalism is our religion, the way we take advantage of a culture that was living within it's own ways and means... We need to rexamine how a comunity of life is.... we need to live within our basic eclogical needs, to be a comunity that grows, produces and purchases locally and responsibility... indignious nations have done this for centuries, living as a family.. to live within what is needed,, and to share what is left.....
Woodstock says:
I did not mean bailing out Wall Street as much as I mean bailing out AIG and the big corporations, airlines etc. Small business is the largest percent of business, they help make America, who will bail them out? the backbone of America? They have the passion to keep the dream alive as the large companies fold up.
Woodstock says:
doesn't the president even think that bailing these companies will make things even worse for the taxpayer? has he taken in consideration all the losses that will be filled on IRS forms that americans have been hit with by the damages of storms across the US?? Bush wants to give the money with no restrictions saying some companies will not take part of it then?? boo-hoo george.... and mccain wants to post-pone the debate because of the crisis, how many "hours" will it take , my gawd... move it to washington then,, i want to hear what these two candiates have to say,, more than the "attack" ads...
Woodstock says:
i lied.... i didn't leave with one last comment!! i'm OCD...
Woodstock says:
i'm a clown!!!
Slakejustice says:
Hopefully you watched the debate tonight!
Slakejustice says:
I got an email from a friend who suggusted that we allow all these companys to collapse and instead of giving the $700 million to the companys but give it to the 200 million working class adults. We'd all get around $350,000 each and our economy would be fixed. The government could even tax it and the whole country would still be fine! Houses would be paid off, credit cards would be paid off and banks would have plenty of money. It makes sense to me. But there is one human factor to consider and that would be GREED. Which is what got us in this situation in the first place. And it will get us in another situation on down the line.
Woodstock says:
greed,,, yes, i agree,,, living past our ecologigical needs.....
Woodstock says:
the bail needs to be very, very specific... bush can not have total power/say.... i say hang him by his testies till he feels the pain most americans are feeling... lets bail out small business first,, they really do make up the backbone of america, they are the biggest part of our country/economy... give me the money,, i'll make sure it's spent wisely... my father worked for the IRS,, he always wanted to see a straight across the board tax,, or a flat tax rate based on retail, where those that had more to spend on luxuries paid more... i always told him it would be our luxuries that will break us.... and it has,, economy and ecological... i'm just bantering,, i may not be the brightest,, yet i learned from very young to live within our means... (i had turned seventeen when we married and had our first child.. i went to barber school in OVR, we started on welfare (a great stepping stone, not to be mis-used) and i worked my butt off to get us up and out... believe me, there is equal opportunity for all who are honest about their direction and responsibility.. 60-70 hours a week,, the best time i had was coming home at night and climbing in bed to love our children,, that sticks in my mind forever,, only to see each other off in the mornings,, yet my "partner" marcia, was our glue in keeping our children in line!! we spent all our weekends all together,, children need family, wheter it is extended and/or natural,, it's all love....... love is what is needed.... louie
Woodstock says:
Imagine there's no Heaven It's easy if you try No Hell below us Above us only sky Imagine all the people Livin' for today Aaa haa Imagine there's no countries It isn't hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too Imagine all the people Livin' life in peace Yoo hoo You may say I'm a dreamer But I'm not the only one I hope someday you'll join us And the world will be as one Imagine no possessions I wonder if you can No need for greed or hunger A brotherhood of man Imagine all the people Sharin' all the world Yoo hoo You may say I'm a dreamer But I'm not the only one I hope someday you'll join us And the world will live as one © LENONO MUSIC;
Woodstock says:
hey, without hope/dreams,, how can one start the day.... me