Posts tagged "debt ceiling"
Sweeney Magoo
Saturday, March 2, 2013
Tags: barber, blind, blindness, budget cut, Congress, cutthroat razor, debt ceiling, fiscal cliff, haircut, mirror, Mr. Magoo, sequester, shave, Sweeny Todd, Uncle Sam
Step Right Up!
Saturday, February 23, 2013
Tags: balloon, carnival barker, carousel, circus, clown, Congress, debt ceiling, donkey, elephant, fiscal cliff, merry-go-round, Stiltwalking Uncle Sam
Whodunit
Saturday, August 6, 2011
Continuing President Bush’s tax cuts for the rich means the government won’t have the funds necessary to maintain infrastructure, help states out with their struggling economies, or continue funding programs that take care of the poor and the sick…
Long Cuts are Wrong
Saturday, July 30, 2011
My initial idea for this cartoon involved a larger parking lot, with one row of spaces taken up by the absurdly long limousine seen above, and the other occupied by a giant tank or ATV representing the “defense” budget…
Neo Cons
Saturday, July 16, 2011
This cartoon compares this blatant economic trickery to the “shell game” or cup-and-ball routine, both of which being sleight-of-hand used for centuries to con desperate or unsuspecting dupes out of money by presenting them with what appears to be a simple gambling game which is in fact impossible to win…
Powder Keg
Monday, July 4, 2011
Tags: 4th of July, debt, debt ceiling, deficit, Economy, explosive, explosives, fireworks, fuse, gunpowder, homeless, Independence Day, jobless, national debt, poor, Uncle Sam
War Ink
Friday, May 20, 2011
There’s a lot of finger-pointing going on in Congress and around the country as to the blame for the budget mess. I feel the recent explosion in the deficit has a lot to do with cutting taxes, especially on corporations, while waging an incredibly wasteful, multi-front war for the purpose of funneling money to war profiteers defense contractors…