Post by anthonyb on Sept 28, 2008 21:31:28 GMT -5
Daryl Cagle, MSNBC.com, 9/26/08
In the cartoon President Bush is holding a gun to the head of a bull dressed in a suit with a nervous smile on its face. The bull has the label "Wall Street" and it is a bull because it represents not the whole market, but however the "bullish" market. This is the term given to a market when the value goes up and investments have been made within that market. President Bush is making a threat, "pay up or the bull gets it" this is a representation of the presidents Bail-Out Plan. Threatening people that if they don't pay up, for example pay up on there mortgages, that the bullish market will "bite the bullet" and crash.
This cartoon plays on both the common idea that President Bush is a man who believes not in reasoning, but rather in achieving his goals by force. An example, the war in Iraq. In this case Bush is threatening the American people that if they don't pay their debts that the Stock Market will soon crash. This is actually a great possibility. If a bail-out plan compromise isn't made soon by Congress, the stock market has a much higher chance of crashing. If this does happen almost every ones livelihood is in jeopardy.
