Two cartoons sum up the state of political action about the sagging economy and unemployment. Stuart Carlson’s latest 55 shows President Obama as FDR, saying: “I was thinking of launching an ambitious, historic public employment program to put America back to work, but then I thought . . . Naaaah!” Today’s by Tom Toles 56 shows the GOP elephant at a podium bragging “We starved the beast!” Behind him is a dead cat labeled Economic Recovery next to an empty bowl labeled Austerity. There is our choice: inactivity or counterproductive ideology.
Meanwhile, length of unemployment is at an all-time high and the infrastructure is crumbling.
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56. http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/toles?hpid=z3
