{"id":3445,"date":"2007-06-08T10:42:17","date_gmt":"2007-06-08T18:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/06\/08\/a-cartoon-about-subprime-mortgages\/"},"modified":"2019-02-17T14:22:46","modified_gmt":"2019-02-17T22:22:46","slug":"a-cartoon-about-subprime-mortgages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=3445","title":{"rendered":"A Cartoon about Subprime Mortgages"},"content":{"rendered":"

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“Subprime mortgages.” Boy, I sure pick exciting topics, don’t I?<\/p>\n

TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON<\/strong><\/p>\n

This cartoon has six panels, with a caption at bottom. The caption says “GOING TO THE SCARY PLACE.”<\/p>\n

All the panels depict two woman, talking as they walk through a residential neighborhood, with fences and houses and trees. One woman is wearing jeans and a peacoat; the other is wearing a sweater over a long flowy skirt.<\/p>\n

PANEL 1<\/strong><\/p>\n

PEACOAT: I’m still not sure if subprime mortgages were a good or a bad thing.<\/p>\n

SWEATER: How so?<\/p>\n

PANEL 2<\/strong><\/p>\n

PEACOAT: On the one hand, when credit companies tempt poor people with mortgages they can’t afford, we end up with lots of poor people losing their homes and life savings!<\/p>\n

PANEL 3<\/strong><\/p>\n

A closeup of Peacoat. She’s looking a bit angry and making a palms-up gesture with her hands that I’d roughly translate as “what the fuck?”<\/p>\n

PEACOAT: But without subprime mortgages, who’d make it possible for poor people to buy homes and build up security? Poor folks get screwed either way.<\/p>\n

PANEL 4<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sweater talks seriously, her arms folded on her chest. She’s got her mouth open WAAAAY <\/em>wide, and I have no idea why I drew it that way (I’m typing this transcript in 2019, and this cartoon was drawn in 2007).<\/p>\n

SWEATER: I see what you mean. But we can’t even begin to get out of that trap without looking at the root problems of an economy that values profits over people.<\/p>\n

PANEL 5<\/strong><\/p>\n

Close-up on Sweater. She’s getting a bit excited\/angry as she talks, waving her arms and with an intense expression.<\/p>\n

SWEATER: The left has to stop being so afraid of questioning capitalism, and so afraid of looking at socialism when it makes sense!<\/p>\n

PANEL 6<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sweater has a questioning expression as she looks up into a tree. Peacoat can no longer be seen, and her word balloon is coming down from the tree.<\/p>\n

SWEATER: er… Why are you hiding in that tree?<\/p>\n

PEACOAT (speaking from tree): Y-y-you said th-th-the “S” word!<\/p>\n

SWEATER: See, this is exactly the sort of thing I’m talking about…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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