Skies Falling and Chickens Talking

     This cartoon by Glenn Fogen is titled, "The Little Chickens"; satirically comparing how big a deal people are making of the sequester to how Chicken Little cried that the sky was falling, and is most probably from a conservative standpoint. In this cartoon, there's a man with an American Flag tee-shirt, a gavel and some chickens titled, media, congress, and O. These probably refer to how these three things have made the sequesters so much bigger than they are. In the cartoon, the man has the chickens saying, "Sequester!!! The sky is falling!!! The sky is falling!!", he has enough of it and kills them with a gavel. The message behind this is that once we get rid of everything that makes these sequesters such a big deal, then as a country, we'll be okay. It's ironic because these are the things that are supposed to make things better for us, when they're actually just making things harder. We talked in class about how media can affect the President and Congress, and spin issues in a whole different way than originally intended, and that's what's happening in this cartoon.