I wish my tears were from laughter.

Stimulation?

With that headline, you beat even the erstwhile Onion to the punch! Bravo!

Headline that we may never see...unless Barack can really be the second coming of FDR:

U.S. to bail out its hardworking, law-abiding, non-millionaire citizens!

...it will probably happen next month.

What would crack me up if it weren't so offensive is that these bailouts are being desperately demanded by the most rabid anti-Keynesians in America.

As panel 3 illustrates, the only way to be welcomed onto the welfare rolls in the U.S. is to be a white guy in a suit.

isn't the title a tautology? I mean, where does the government get "its" money? It borrows it based on its future ability to tax its citizens.

So ... yeah. Every penny the Government spends or has ever spent is part of a bailout by the American people.

And that includes the current bailout "plan". The government borrows money, hands it over to the banks, and promises to pay the lenders - who are, in many cases, the banks - back by taxing people.

As a Canadian, I have to say that we, up here in the Great White North, are beginnin' to wonder what you folks down there in La-La Land (U.S.A.) are playin' at.

There ya are, talkin' 'bout yer mis-guvvermint usin' tax-payers' money to "bail out" banks and other major companies who have, for years 'n years been makin' humongous profits offa the working folks of yer country.

Now, them banks and companies sure as heck didn't share those profits with the ordinary tax-payers of the nation, did they? So why should the tax-paying working man be on the hook to bail them out now that they've messed things up?

Seems to me that all those coupon-clipping shareholders, who shared in the wealth should oughtta be the ones to bail them suckers out. They 'lected the boards of directors 'n the CEO's. The tax-payers didn't. They are the ones who will benefit by any bailout. Jes' seems kinda natcheral thet they should do a little sumthin' ta help out, wouldn't ya think?

Worse yet, the bass-akward way yer doin' things is startin' to set off a similar demand for tax-payers (future)money to be used in the same way, up here.

C'mon neighbour, get a grip, will ya?

As an American, I have to say that your assumed accent doesn't make me identify with you and it certainly won't make me trust you.

Now, where's my piece of the bailout? That $300 kickback I got last May was peanuts!

funny!

If the taughtly run government can spend $50 bucks for a five dollar hammer, and pay $90 bucks for the wrong toilet seats that then have to be thrown away, are gold pogo sticks such a bad way to spend the bailout money? At least we'll have some fun on the unemployment line with them.

At least we know the Golden parachutes the money will be blown on actually work!