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   Ken Warren said, 26 days ago

   I love his artwork, this is right out the late 1800’s or 1930’s, no doubt about who is the bad guy, a great work of art, and no matter what you may feel (there is no doubt that this cartoon is designed to make you feel more then to make you think) it is a great cartoon.

   Some where Tomas Nash is smiling!

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   toasteroven said, 26 days ago

   Eh, not quite enough detail for Thomas Nast, but I see your point. And honestly, both newspapers and editorial cartoons had a good deal more power then than they have now.

   Also, as a side note: This is still my favorite old school cartoon.

   http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/dl/free/0072900423/89059/u11_09.jpg

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   Ken Warren said, 26 days ago

   Toast – Thanks, it is good, old time cartoons were very black & white. It’s the sort of thing that keeps us coming back for more. The only thing I think that would have made Oliphant’s cartoon better is if the bad guy had grabbed the little penguin and eaten him.

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   scottfreitas said, 26 days ago

   Mght want to remember who parroted the “too big to fail” line

   Bush?

   No

   Cheney?

   No

   Osama?

   YES.

   If Osama had been prez during earlier eras, we would have been forced to bail out Rockefeller Oil, Packard, De Soto, Pan Am, Hudson, Studebaker, International, 100+ assorted railroad companies, etc etc et all onward into infinity

   No business is TOO BIG TO FAIL.

   Yet if they donate enough money to Osama and the Demoncrat Party, they get awarded that status by default…

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   nerual53 said, 26 days ago

   Scotty, you are wrong once again. It was Bush’s buddy Hank Paulson.

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   4uk4ata said, 25 days ago

   True, the phrase became popular when the bailout started to be discussed, but it was coined earlier. I’m not sure Paulson was the first to mention the TBTF businesses.

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   Madman2001 said, 25 days ago

   I agree with Oliphaunt’s sentiments here. “Too Big to Fail” really is scary. Too bad “our” government (as I recall both Bush and Obama tossed money away) spent a hundreds and hundreds of billions on these dinosaurs.

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   a.c.d said, 25 days ago

   In the Netherlands we just had a bank fail (DSB) because the bank was sending out cheap loans bundeled with insurance on the loan, which up the costs so much it caused massive defaults. We let the bank fail and is now bankrupt. The owner of the bank Mr. Scheringa is now also bankrupt because all his assests where taken away and given to pay the debts of the bank and to refund the depositors.
   Now, letting the bank fail is highly contested because we nationalised ABN Amro, and as a result of DSB going under, ING (another dutch bank) is having solvency issues and is watching is stock prices tumble. I personally dont know the answer, but I am certain the TBTF is a concern because of the interconnected nature of the financial system, however there must still be a punishment for bad business practices (like those of DSB). ABN Amro was saved because it was bought up by the Royal Bank of Scotland, which as everyone knows, failed thanks to the collapse of Northern Rock and allowing it to fail for not fault of its own was not fair to the many stockholders, depositors and investors.
   So the issue here is that banks are too interconnected with money, so that the failure of one bad bank can cause the failure of other good banks. What needs to be done is set limits on the interconnections, so that banks can fail and not bring down the whole house in the process.

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   4uk4ata said, 25 days ago

   Hmm, this reminds me of one of my favourite internet pictures: http://www.demotivateus.com/teamwork-share-victory-share-defeat- .

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    Dmajor said, 25 days ago

    Scottf – check your keyboard. I think you’re referrring to the President, whose name is Obama, with a B. Why would you spell it with an S?

    Do you want us to call you Bcottfreitab? Are you from Texab? Or Mibbibbippi? Or Bouth Dakota? Do you bcratch your bcabb? or your ballb? Are you bomehow trying to be humoroub? Have zombieb eaten all your brainb?

    I do appreciate your commentb. You are like a magnetic compabb with the wrong end of the needle painted red.

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    wbr said, 25 days ago

    having an obama halloween —-take candy from kids

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    dtroutma said, 25 days ago

    I’m also confused on how he figured Standard Oil (Rockefeller oil) ever needed a bailout. Now Arbusto and every company Shrub touched in his career, different matter.

    Like the heads hanging just inside the door- is Lynne Cheney standing just outside frame?

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    illostr8 said, 25 days ago

    The man is good ,alot of left hand artists are brilliant!!

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    parkersinthehouse said, 25 days ago

    DMAJOR!! HAgasp

    screambwaaahahaha

    milkoutmy nose!!!!!

    (i got that from ahab - hey ahab momn)

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    ahab said, 25 days ago

    MOMN!

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    comYics said, 24 days ago

    Trying to steal candy from babies? Hope you guys arent offended by stating the obvious. Who cares though.

    Its pathetic the litle lies told, the greedy pathetic ways of thieves destined for destruction, laughing, thinking to themselves without thinking of the destination, “we planned it all along ha ha”. Destruction is their end destruction.

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    cabrobst said, 23 days ago

    Foreclose on the bailout banks and socialize them.

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    longtimecomicsfan said, 22 days ago

    There’s a pretty coherent explanation of “Too Big To Fail” at Wikipedia.

    It’s not a slogan - it’s a policy of the federal government since the 1950’s, and it’s a concept which is hotly and explicitly refuted in China, debated in England, and for which differing viewpoints exist in every developed economy on Earth.

    That being said, just recall the failure of Lehman Brothers - and now project that kind of economic shock multiplied by 10 or 12 times as Washington Mutual, AIG, Citicorp, and other large money center institutions failed one after another.

    The way we’ve handled the situation may be up for debate, but it is pretty clear that the consequences of large bank failures can be pretty drastic.

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    teslagirl said, 22 days ago

    Too big to fail is just too bleeep big. Great cartoon. Very Nast.

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    motivemagus said, 22 days ago

    Flag the spammer.

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    DrCanuck said, 21 days ago

    Hey, flagging worked. How come we can’t get rid of Stan Collins?