Cartoon of the Week

Found at http://www.uclick.com/client/nyt/bs/
Drawn by Ben Sargent
Key Objects: Wall Street street sign, trash can, milk carton featuring a middle class American family as "MISSING MIDDLE-CLASS AMERICAN DREAM". The Wall Street street sign represents Wall Street businesses (fairly straight forward), the trash can (which is holding the milk carton) is what the middle class American dream has become (trash, lies, etc.), the milk carton represents the missing/dying middle class American dream.
Techniques or Devices Used: Ummm. All I'm seeing here is symbolism.... Ummm.... It's not really making fun of anyone so that knocks off satire and ridicule. I suppose it could be caricature, but it's not really disproportionate...
Issue or Event: The shrinking middle class and fading American dream.
Cartoonist's Message: Our middle class is disappearing and the American dream is dying.
Cartoonist's P.O.V. (Point of view): That the rich keep getting richer while the poor are getting poorer.