Government: A Licence to Print Money

Political cartoons. Today I am imagining the following large single panel: Upper left background is the chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, dressed as an old fashioned printer (with cuff protectors and a billed cap), frantically pressing million dollar bills - some of which are seen pegged to a washing line to dry. Upper right background, a queue of 'ordinary' U.S. citizens (including also an old person, a crippled veteran, a young child, a pregnant woman and a hospital patient) being forced to turn out their pockets. In the middle we see all this money being funneled forcibly into the slot of a large, placid old style piggy bank festooned with logos of failed and 'troubled' banks and sitting on a table. Lower foreground, hiding beneath the tablecloth, sits a caricature of the Monopoly banker clutching a hammer, grinning from ear to ear, showering in money falling through the pig's broken belly and a hole it the table, pockets overflowing and a mound piling up around him...

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