SinFest Cartoon About The Economic Bailout: Bankton 2000

This is a great Sinfest strip by Tatsuya Ishida. It’s about how the bailout is using our (taxpayers) money to “restore confidence” to the market and allow banks to give out loans to the very people they took the money from in the first place.

It reminds me of how politicians bribe the public with $1,000 or $500 dollar “stimulus checks” that are made up of our own money in the first place. They take our money, process it through the government machine, pay the government workers, then a small portion of the money pops out the other end, and we get some of that. And we’re all happy for it.
See the punchline:

(via Sinfest)