Political Cartoon #3

Ok so again this weeks political cartoon i found on cagle.com/politicalcartoons.
You can probably expect the rest of them to be from there, because I like the cartoons on that website haha.

I liked this cartoon just because I thought it was kinda funny. Basically it's the Grinch sees a bigger red Grinch labeled *Recession*. The caption at the bottom says, "I got to Whoville before you this year" with the Grinch terrified saying "Dang, I got a big brudder". Basically saying how recession will ruin our Christmas this year rather than the Grinch. The Grinch's dog, Max says "I hear singing", and I only understood that because the Who's in Whoville sang even though they didn't have their presents. So maybe it's stating that people will be happy even with Recession going on? I'm not too sure.

I'm not too sure if I agree with this Cartoon, I feel like it's a bit overexagerated because recently when I went to the mall to go x-mas shopping, it was PACKED, and route 7 to Dulles Mall was a lot of traffic. I imagine the other way to Tysons was as bad. I would think a lot of people are doing shopping so maybe the Recession might not be a problem. Also, we did get a increase in spending on black friday, so many people might not think it is a problem.

Political Cartoon #2

Ok so this weeks political cartoon i found on cagle.com/politicalcartoons.

So this cartoon basically says "SHOP! or the terrorists win" basically saying buy things this Christmas or we all go bankrupt and no one has money and our economy goes down even worse. The stores employees are next to a bunch of Christmas gifts and the woman/consumer can't buy it because she doesn't have enough money to buy all that because our economy right now. So it's also referring that consumers will buy WAY less this Christmas then previous years. Also in the background you can see signs like "BUY!" or "WII" or "DRUG FREE CHINESE TOYS". The market's desperate to make sales.

I don't know if i necessarily agree with this cartoon in some points like, since gas prices are down people are spending less money on gas so they should have extra money in their pockets. Another example is this years black friday was a lot more successful then last years meaning people are still willing to spend. For negative sides you can also view that a lot of major companies are laying off, so even with extra money from gas, people still need to find jobs. People also could have spent more on black friday as Christmas shopping, or even the fact just because this year's Black Friday prices were a lot lower then previous.

So who knows what's going to happen, hopefully we'll have a good economic turn out for Christmas :)