Review of Gold Rush Daze

. . . among the swindling Fat Cat One Per Center Corrupt Job-Killing Corporate Capitalists dotting our American landscape. Most of this animated short is presented in flashback form, tracing the sorry money-grubbing obsessions of the grizzled old-timer serving as proprietor of the "Last Chance" desert gas station. Rather than keeping in step with the times by adding a cafe, convenience store, motel, and repair shop, this lazy windbag has allowed his property to go to seed, content to fret over the pathetic not-so-glorious days of his prospecting Youth, as recounted during the middle six minutes of this brief cartoon. From the card shark in a San Francisco saloon (who sizes him up as a literal sucker) to the plethora of organized claim jumpers utilizing a variety of Big Business Tricks to prevent him from having any chance at even modest success, this ill-fated dog NEVER learns a single new trick. His sad saga wraps up with his Grand Larceny Auto Theft from the paws of another would-be sap, as he yells "You can have the station!" This is Warner Bros.' way of reminding viewers that without Union Representation and a lot of Hard Work, We Normal Loyal True Blue Patriotic Average Americans ALWAYS will be relegated to a lowly Loserville stationery "Station" in Life.