Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for March 07, 2009

Very cool!

Banker: And I’ll take advantage of your ignorance and petty greed, make you an obscenely insupportable loan, invent inherently fraudulent bundled financial instruments, and run a Ponzi scheme on the universe.

So bankers are now just like congress critters? … BTW, the biggest Ponzi scheme ever in the universe is social security.

someguy53: the point isn’t that people are losing their houses. The point is that banks loaded up on bad debt that everyone bought and when people lost their houses, every one on the bank debt food chain got hosed. The blame for that falls on the morons giving out bad loans to deadbeats, not the deadbeats.

@Someguy53: I agree with you. You’re a bank. You have the government putting the squeeze on you to grant risky mortgages to give everyone a shot at the American Dream–even those with bad credit who can’t budget. Then when it all falls apart, you get blamed.

Remember, the money that has been lent doesn’t just belong to the ‘big bad bank’ it belongs to others who knew how to budget and were saving wisely for the future. It’s the deadbeats who are causing this financial trauma, aided by the government who forced the banks to lend money to people that they wouldn’t have otherwise.

Amazing - I’m a bleeding-heart liberal Democrat and I agree with just about all of you. Except for the part about Social Security… that would have been just fine if Congress had kept its filthy collective hand out of the cookie jar for the past 30 or so years!

Grokenstein - what you’ve posted here shows more sense and insight than I’ve seen anywhere else on this topic. May I borrow your words if I find them useful?

In the 4th panel he’s winding up to backhand the zombie with the umbrella…with his LEFT hand…

…then in the 5th panel, he’s completed a backhand strike to the zombie’s head, but the umbrella is somehow in his RIGHT hand at the end of the stroke…

My contribution to this important dialogue, you’re welcome very much in advance!

This is a great, scary, funny strip.

I have a friend in the mortgage business and asked him what the hell was going on here. He said that basically banks were getting rich off of charging points. Investors loved it and were rewarding the banks for massive short term profits.

And now that everything’s falling apart, the government cleans up after the mess with our tax dollars…giving it to the same morons who got us into this mess. Except maybe they’re not morons after all.

Sigh…I like Obama, but he’s just treading water here. IMO we need to nationalize these failed businesses that are “too big to fail” and provide accountability, not throw money at them.