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Subscribe to RSSHere's my cartoon for today, with Mao on the 100 Yuan note slugging George Washington. The poor dollar takes a lot of abuse in cartoons.
My buddy, Luo Jie, who draws for the government owned "China Daily" national newspaper in China, sees the dollar as the threat...
Another Chinese cartoonist, Jianping Fan from Guangzhou, sees dollars as Obama’s garbage.
As I see it, dollars are something bitter for the Chinese to swallow...
I can see why China might be upset...
Around the world, Americans are cowboys, as with this world dollar cartoon by Hajo from Holland.
Romanian cartoonist, Pavel Constantin, shows a poor Washington on the lam...
George Washington has been beaten, burned, drowned, squashed ... between George and the dove of peace, it is hard to imagine a character who has been more abused in editorial cartoons.
I counted about a dozen examples of Washington under water, from other cartoonists, after I drew this one...
Mexican cartoonist, Angel Boligan, sees the dollar as the Titanic...
Manny Francisco, a Filipino cartoonist working in Singapore, shows George Washington in hard times...
Here's the same sentiment from French cartoonist, Frederick Deligne...
Canadian cartoonist, Thomas Boldt sees the dollar reduced to mere Monopoly money...
Brazilian cartoonist, Simanca sees some lunchtime envy between the dollar and Euro.
A billion dollars in paper bills would probably fill a football stadium. The scale of spending and deficits is so huge that there is little for cartoonists to exaggerate. If Obama threw money away at only the rate of cash flowing through a fire hose, we'd have spending under control.
The problem with drawing dollar bills stretching from the Earth to the moon a few times over is that it makes for a dull cartoon. Fill the Grand Canyon with dollars? Dull.
When fiscal reality becomes a cartoon, there isn't much left for us cartoonists to do - except abuse poor George Washington.
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Everyone who agrees with those silly cartoons, you are welcome to send your worthless dollars to me. I promise I won't charge you a recycling fee.
bwahahahaha
believe me it is worthless in West Africa against the CFA.......you can hardly survive and you feel the heat the minute to change $100 for the equivalent of CFA....the $$ is really nothing....
be afraid, be very afraid.
so sad
I am now afraid for my American dollar. If I have to pay $30 for a gallon of milk I'm moving to England.
Please go and don't let the door hit you in the ....
The cost of living is higher in England. May I suggest Mexico?
and to think that it all began in the 90's...hmmm...,when -The best rapper was a white guy -The best golfer was a black guy -The tallest guy in the NBA was Chinese -Germany didn't want to go to war -France accused the U.S. of arrogance -and the top three men in congress had respectable names like "Dick","Colon",and "Bush".
And that's just there "nick" names. Thank I love the humor of it all. LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!
Glenn W -- thanks for the little, refreshing burst of nostalgia! Ahhh, the good old days!
you're welcome & thank you
its either religion or politics we're throwing it away over a religious war.............
while the politicians are raiding the cookie jar.
You realize, or maybe you don't, the the weaker the dollar gets, the more competative the country gets and the more likely we will start manufacturing here again...
@Cavalier: You're seriously suggesting turning the US into a third world country is a good thing, on hopes all the slave-labor style sweatshops will move here?
That's a rather myopic statement!
You forget to realize that it would mean that US tech and services would also drop in cost based on exchange rates. Our aerospace would take a major shot in the arm as well. Not to mention that computer programming and software engineering might actually become a livable profession here in the US again.
The only thing a weak(er) currency would do negatively is damage the margins of companies that have spent the last decade and a half outsourcing most of their production. Meanwhile the barrier to entry for new domestic startups would lower considerably as it would become feasible to manufacture right here at home.
...and heavens forbid that we actually contract with manufacturers that are actually held accountable for IP theft, illegal factory runs and information leaks...Not only are China's factories poor at such initiatives, their own government has been caught helping in such espionage on more than one occasion!
I don't think our US companies realize just how much they lose by outsourcing in exchange for the slave-labor they can employ on far less efficient factory floors.
Where China knocks the teeth out of poor Washington, is only round one of that "Bush tax extension" Obama wants so much to Compromise on. The knockout punch will come when Yuan's grandchildren have enslave thous of Americans. As the profits from spending at Wal-Mart continue to be shipped oversea by our Commerce Department. Poor is not the half of the dollar problems.
Bwahahahaha is right! You obviously don't have a good supply of cigar lighters! Oh well, the dollars will be cheaper. :)
Things look bad for the good ole US of A right now, but don't count it out. It's a nation of predators and if things get really bad, and it becomes eat or be eaten, the rest of this planet better watch out. Making everyone fend for themselves cradle to grave has some benefits when things get ugly.
And don't forget, for all of this it's a manufactured crisis. The world economy is completely controlled. If tomorrow everyone decided to say the Euro is the currency of choice and a half Euro feeds a family for a week, then it would be so. Everyone is running around wringing their hands over something that would take a mere act by the world bank to correct. Of course this will never happen but nothing real has gone south. There isn't less money or less food or less shelter or less beads or less of anything of real value. It's just a play manufactured on paper so the ultra wealthy can get wealthier at the expense of everyone else by buying up cheap and selling at highs.
what amazes me , is that most only see what they are told to see.
A carrot is still worth a carrot. THE INTRINSIC VALUE OF ANY ITEMS HAS NOT GONE DOWN.
Perhaps if we all stopped buying junk and tried to put at least one foot on the ground we would soon be happier.
While the intrinsic value of something may remain the same, the buying power of the dollar compared with other currencies will fall. That is the reality we are in now.
Buy stock or gold or something, carefully of course. It should hold up better than the dollar.
are you kidding me? buy Gold or stock. If there's scarcity of food , do you think anyone will care for Gold?please tell me something i dont know
the congress and administration have spent out nation into bankruptcy and want to continue spending. obama offering a "bribe" of $4 billion to get the arms treaty passed. where is it comingfrom. "hot off the presses" i would imagine. we are not the former power to be reckoned with, we are the laughing stock of the world.
Please send me your dollars. I will accept it whole heartedly. Thank you in advance
The Chinese are afraid because the U.S is about to play the game they've been playing to years. The Chinese know too well that all the dollars will end up in their country and it will result in commodity inflation and weaker dollars which will encourage U.S export
Welcome to the results 30 years of "Reaganomics" has brought...look in a mirror southern electorate...the chickens have come home to roost thanks to you and a few centrist democratic allies, and you think voting the hate-mongering republican frauds back in will result in anything different. When are you going to stop fighting the Civil-War????
Rise up, let it, see you still so newbier