Posts tagged "deficit"
Choose Your Poison
Saturday, April 7, 2012
Tags: Barack Obama, Centrist Democrats, corporate deregulation, deficit, healthcare, healthcare reform, Medicaid, Medicare, Obama, patent medicine, Paul Ryan, placebo, poison, prescription, quack medicine, Reaganomics, Republican, Republicans, Roger Ailes, snake oil, sugar pills, tax cuts for the rich
Barack Obama: Capitalist Lion Tamer
Saturday, March 3, 2012
Tags: Barack Obama, circus, debt, deficit, Economy, elephant, lion, lion tamer, monkey skills are best, national debt, Obama, President Obama, roar, top hat, whip
The Hand-Off
Monday, September 19, 2011
I wasn’t sure what to think about this particular situation, but I do know there is already a history of Obama getting blamed for bills incurred by President Bush (such as TARP), and I realize most of the National Debt is the work of decades’ worth of Presidents and Congresses and wasting tons of money on dumb wars…
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…
Warburger, the Infinitely Prolonged
Sunday, January 9, 2011
Tags: bacon, bacon cheeseburger, cheeseburger, Coca-Cola, Coke, defense, defense budget, deficit, Department of Defense, diet, Diet Coke, fast food, fat, Freedom Fries, french fries, military, military budget, morbidly obese, Pac-Man, Robert Gates, Secretary of Defense, U.S. military, war, weight loss
We Can Dig It!
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
This illustration turned out pretty good, but the commentary and gag are kind of average. Hopefully Obama is recognizable from the back like this, even without a label explicitly identifying him…