Unit 2 Analysis Of A Political Cartoon

Part Two: Analysis

The first source shows a poster advertising free trade and technical classes for adults during President Roosevelt’s New Deal. It occurred in 1936 around the time of the United States depression. This poster was created to encourage people to get an education to reduce poverty and to create jobs.
The ideological perspective shown in the source is modern liberalism because there is government contribution in the society to benefit the country. This is a collective perspective because the program is funded by the government to benefit society as a collective. Roosevelt created social programs during the recession to create jobs and maintain equality. His ideas were inspired from John Keynes who also was a modern liberalist.
I believe this cartoon is saying that both tax and rebate can’t jumpstart the economy. You either need tax OR rebate. This cartoon is linked to Keynes economic theory because he believed that tax rebates when the economy is poor would help stimulate the economy and taxes when the economy was good would prevent spending and overheating.
The main idea represented is not clear because it doesn’t show which battery is the ‘right’ one to use. It just states that you need either tax OR rebate. Assuming that in Keynes theory that rebates would help jumpstart the economy, and taxes would prevent overspending, we can say that this image is a collectivist because it supports government involvement. The government controls fiscal policies to prevent recession and by raising taxes or rebating taxes, it will benefit the society as a
Keynes believed that classic liberalism itself was unstable. You need government intervention to straighten some issues out.
His ideological perspective is closely linked to modern liberalism because they both encourage and endorse social programs and have government control some aspects of the economy. If classic liberalism was left alone with no government control, society would go into recession and there is no way that it can come out of it unless government is there to take control. You need social programs to help the recession by creating jobs and express confidence in the economy.
Keynesian economics supports the principles of modern liberalism. It somewhat rejects private property, economic freedom and competition. By creating social programs, some private property will be changed over to public property. As previously stated, social programs would also take away competition for other businesses. Taxes are used to fund these programs and an increase in taxes would lead to less economic freedom. It supports individual rights and freedoms because the social services would provide the programs that would improve the lives of the citizens. For example, free public healthcare would relate to the right to