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Billy Walsh's acrylic paintings are loaded with important symbolism and messaging. See below.

   Ben and the Fat Cat Banksters, 2011

  • Fat cat excesses include: a gold G-Sachs charm, a gold BofA belt buckle, gold JPM capped teeth, smoke dollar signs being blown, guzzling a martini, passing out with an empty beer mug, a money-folded paper airplane (on floor toward bottom right), torn pants for becoming too "big for the britches"
  • "HYPER" printing level symbolizing the potential of hyperinflation
  • Globe carpet being lit on fire from Fed's printing press exploding on the right and money-rolled cigar dropping ashes on the left
  • A cat litter box painted like the American flag

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   Democracy, 2012

  • Free market entrepreneur walking away from capitalism (building) on a tightrope while balancing government intervention and entitled moochers, which both make up the perspective of the majority of voters
  • Entitled guy taking money from entrepreneur's pocket, while attempting to cut rope. Social security card, union card, food stamp, healthcare card, and unemployment check falling out of his own pocket
  • Uncle Sam reaching in entrepreneur's pocket while holding a gun to his head
  • Tower crane symbolizing the required repair of messaging around capitalism
  • Reflection at top of building to highlight the productive mind of the entrepreneur

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   Equality vs. Inequality, 2012

  • Equality in stormy darkness symbolized by tombstones of Nazism, Russian communism, and Mao Zedong communism
  • Inequality in the sunshine symbolized by a woman paying a mechanic for fixing her sports car while a hopeful homeless person looks for a donation
  • American flag hung upside down symbolizing a country in distress and lying limp in question of which way the wind will blow between the philosophies

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   Either-Or, 2012

  • The dollar sign as the historical symbol of capitalism
  • Collectivism symbolized by half the dollar sign as fiat paper currency being torn apart underground by the parasite masses that collectivism and fiat money cultivate
  • Individualism symbolized by gold representative of sound money in the sun and on solid ground with a single flower representative of the individual and productivity that individualism and sound money cultivate
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