I did this cartoon as a result of listening and reading some news reports about the dollar and its recent decline. I also was thinking about all the spending that is going on at a national and local level and allegedly there are talks of more stimuli being discussed beyond the first couple of rounds. I realize that dollars are being printed constantly and have been since before President Obama took office but since he’s the current President he gets to be in the cartoon. Anyway, I was thinking that some day down the road with all this printing going on there will be nothing left on the tree in a way, meaning that the dollar will be so diluted in the market place that it will be relatively worthless and it won’t really matter if the printing presses are going at break neck speed. What then? What will the answer to the problem be? That is where this cartoon idea came from. Enjoy the cartoon and have a great day.
I got the idea for this cartoon from a speech that president Obama was giving in San Francisco I believe. I’m not sure of the place but Nancy Pelosi was mentioned so I just make that assumption. Anyway, in the speech he talks about being handed a mess and working on cleaning it up and says for the people who are criticizing the way in which he is doing it to “Pick up a Mop and help out”. Somewhere else in some other news report either before or close after that clip on the speech about the Mop there was a news report of talk about a second stimulus plan for the economy in congress. I thought it was interesting that any talk of more stimulus would be happening now only because the first stimulus, or I guess it would really be the second stimulus if you consider the TARP to be stimulus, has not been fully spent yet. I wonder what the plan is for the rest of the first stimulus. Anyway, those two things kind of collided together in my head and this cartoon was a result of that collision. Enjoy the cartoon and have a great day.
I came up with this cartoon after the subject of waffling came up in conversation after one of my previous cartoons. It came up that it was not Obama who waffles on some of these things it is the Teleprompters and so you have it, another cartoon is born. I also did some research on the term “waffling”. Why you ask……well it just seems like a strange word to attach to someone changing their mind back and forth….that’s all. What I mean is how does a tasty breakfast dish get sucked into what has become such a sometimes derogatory name plate? Anyway, I could find all kinds of reference on who was waffling on this or that but nothing really on how it first came to be used as an “I changed my mind” term. If anyone could enlighten me on that…..it would be cool. Enjoy and have a great day.
I did this cartoon as a result of a story I watched or read the other day……sorry I have been doing a lot of both lately. Anyway, the basics of it were that Healthcare reform needed to be done now and quick….rush…..rush…..rush…..fast….fast…..fast but none of the benefits of all this speed legislating would actually take effect until 2013. Hummmm…..Ok. So maybe someone needs some time to set it up and make sure it’s running right but wait. Taxes for the program start immediately…..time out, three years of taxes but no benefits, now that’s a big Hummm. Sounds a little like…..”Wait….no…..don’t say it.” Yes folks…..it sounds a little like the beginning of a brand new Super Duper……..Ginormous…….. Bernie Madoff dwarfing……..Ponzi scheme. Anyway, you make your own call on the current state of HealthCare Reform….I’ll just keep drawing goofy pictures. I also found a video clip that illustrates what I am saying here perfectly…..check it out. I think you will get a chuckle out of it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJ6xBaZ92uA