Donald Duck in "The Spirit of '43"

[kayapapaya]

Perhaps the lesson of this cartoon is in fact to spend spend spend - or just not earn much in the first place? Ughh, wartime.



In other news, I just baked peanut butter cookies. yuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuum:)

Comments

[me_it_the_cow]

1. I love taxes. Just felt the need.

2. One of my favorite things is that wartime propaganda is full of the short-short-short-long opening motive of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, e.g. this, the beginning of every BBC broadcast, etc., because short-short-short-long is Morse code for V or victory. They forgot that Beethoven was German. (:

[kayapapaya]

1. I think taxes are pretty swell too, when they're being used for things like nationalised daycare or improved victims services, etc. Not for wars, though.

2. That's really interesting! Do you think that the producers forgot Beethoven was German, or that they just didn't think the audience would catch on?

[me_it_the_cow]

1. While wars might not be the best reason for delicious taxes, they do seem to be the most politically effective way of making the public swallow taxes. Without those little World Wars we wouldn't have income taxes today... mmmmm income taxes...

2. Couldn't tell you! Maybe they were telling themselves that he was really Austrian? But a German Austrian...