http://leopol.wordpress.com A politics and public affairs weblog Sun, 13 Apr 2008 15:24:36 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://leopol.wordpress.com/2008/04/12/us-economy-trickles/#comment-2 Jim Anderson Sun, 13 Apr 2008 15:24:36 +0000 http://leopol.wordpress.com/?p=12#comment-2 To me, this cartoon doesn't get at the crux of the USA's economic crisis, which is that too many of us have embraced the consumer culture -- indeed, we wallow in it. Spend, spend, spend. The whole economy is based on that principle. Even the Republicans in government have come around. They still rail against the tax-and-spend Democrats, but their alternative is now "tax less, spend more." To me, this cartoon doesn’t get at the crux of the USA’s economic crisis, which is that too many of us have embraced the consumer culture — indeed, we wallow in it. Spend, spend, spend. The whole economy is based on that principle. Even the Republicans in government have come around. They still rail against the tax-and-spend Democrats, but their alternative is now “tax less, spend more.”

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