Editorial Cartoon Review Current Ebents

The people wailing and bemoaning the cruel fate of Mister Dollar are savings bank holders, 401k participants and others entrapped within the various and numerous Wall Street schemes.
The only remaining question about the now notorious inaccuracy of government reports is if they are the result of incompetence, deviousness or some combination of the two.

Still some prosper in the current economic climate.

From the ashes of the economic collapse there arises a new player on Wall Street.

Still despite extreme economic hardship the defence spending continues happily along and Misters Drip& Drop question if it isn't all a waste.

And just how will we know when things are really getting better.

What kind of adjustments will Americans have to prevent a repeat performance of the current economic disaster.

Are they soldiers or economic refugees?

Perseverance personified Misters Drip & Drop continue to follow the grimy demise of Mister Dollar, well known American hero.

Mean while on the Beltway the bureaurats continue a round of free lunches and seminars where currently they are being taught to think out of the box.

In Madison Square Garden the backers of the recovery have offered to take on all comers, unfortunately unemployment has the recovery on the ropes.

Medically speaking things may have looked worse, but no one remembers when.

How many wonder is Joe Average holding up?

In Washington federal bums now hold sway where we used to see the turnstile jumpers, purse snatchers and 3 Card Monte men.

The tax payer faces new challenges.

But there is a way to jump start the economy, albeit unlikely.

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Below the execution of Mr Dollar, popular American figure, is carried out by fee for service government contract workers who some believe are nothing more than private American armies.



Certainly Uncle Sam has been taken for a ride by the Oily One and other corporate thugs.


Uncle is nothing if not adaptable! Below we see him doing a new kind of banking at The Spank of America.


Many of the faint hearted latte drinking elite snobs have turned their back on our leaders when the going got tough, but others remained true to those who knee capped their life savings and the prospects for generations to come.


Individuals adapt also as we see Talking Rosemary [below] who has clearly figured out what's what.

Others remain firm in their loyalties and go about their business, however diminished it may be.

How did this all come about in the richest country in the world?

Below Uncle Sam seeks to puzzle out his choices.

The current economic climate has caused changes in long held attitudes about social support systems, in particular welfare.

In the midst of the recession or possibly depression, the compensation pirates remain vigilant in upholding the basic premise of maximizing profit, at least their own profit.

Within the belt way bureaurats continue to maintain their aristocratic pretensions..

Bureaurats scramble to come to terms with the crisis at conferences where thinking out of the box is most topical.

We are left with only the hope that their efforts will bear fruit as the consequences of more incompetence will be dire indeed.

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