Collegiate Times

I was recently made aware of the whole uproar regarding a New York Post political cartoon. For those of you who have yet to see it, a quick search on Google will reveal the cartoon and all the banter as to its possible racial implications.

The cartoon features two police officers gunning down a crazed chimpanzee; a reference to the famous chimpanzee who recently attacked a woman in Connecticut. One of the officers turns to the other and says: "They'll have to find someone else to write the next stimulus bill." It was at this point that I laughed out loud.

The Race Card Police are certainly out in full force this year, undoubtedly censoring harmless free speech wherever it may reside. The implications are that the chimp in this cartoon is Obama and that the cartoon is being very racist by comparing Obama to a chimp.

When I heard this part of the story, I began to laugh even harder. Anyone who really thinks that this is important news needs to get a hobby. In no way should it affect your life to have any cartoonist make a cartoon about any topic, no matter how offended it makes you.

I'm a firm believer in freedom of speech, and I believe fully in the idea that no person ever has a right not to be offended.

As a lover of free-market economics, I read the cartoon and immediately laughed at its commentary on lawmakers. The stimulus bill in particular is a work of insanity only fitting to have been schemed by a complete idiot, or a cloaked genius with an evil laugh.

Perhaps what the artist of this very hilarious cartoon was trying to say is that Congress is without rational thought. Congress has become nothing more than a monkey at a typewriter -- writing random laws without understanding exactly what is being written. Also, if Congress becomes really angry, it tends to attack, just as the crazed chimpanzee in Connecticut.

Congress and the federal government as a whole are desperate for survival. They'll continue crazily spending money like a "shop-a-holic" in hopes that racking up more debt through constant spending will keep the bad economy from swallowing them whole.

So long as the government has a printing press -- the golden ticket to an endless supply of dollars -- the theory is that spending will spur economic growth. This theory only works if the state closes its eyes, covers its ears and ignores the outside world. Although this is something it has become very good at, reality will eventually catch up to it.

Let's apply the government theory of economics to our own lives: If you knew a person who lived off a credit card, never paid his own bills, but used stolen and counterfeit money to pay his friends' bills, what would you say about this person's financial skills? I don't even want to imagine his credit score.

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