Kevin Eason on Wall Street bailouts

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Kevin Eason on Wall Street bailouts

By: Kevin Eason (Add to your loop)
Mon, 02/08/2010 - 08:44

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Enough is enough.

Cartoonist Kevin Eason takes a shot at the astronomical financial bailouts in general and the Wall Street bailouts in particular. The federal government has contributed at least $700 billion dollars to shore up U.S. financial institutions. The government giveaways did more than save the banking system, it afforded them the ability to pay big bonuses and helped to fuel a year-end stock market rebound. Rescuing the financial system was necessary but was the effort excessive?

We’ve taken a few shots of our own at the financial bailouts:

Is Obama tough enough to rein in the barons of Wall Street?

Job creation weaves a tangled web

More bankruptcies for us and Wall Street still profits

Kevin Eason is a freelance editorial cartoonist and Illustrator from NJ. His satirical cartoons appear every Monday. Email Kevin at kevin@theloop21.com.

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