Silent Conspiracies

Published 04/27/09 Sen. Ernest F. "Fritz" Hollings, with video by Craig Harrington

Editor's Note: The following article was contributed by Former Senator Ernest F. “Fritz” Hollings, author of Making Government Work.

This week’s Toles cartoon has President Obama looking at a pile of sand and talking to the U. S. in the first frame with the heading: “We’re not going to build a new economy on this same pile of sand.” The next frame of the cartoon shows President Obama talking to the U. S. not on one pile but a sea of piles of sand. Toles exposes Washington’s silent conspiracy of debt. (more)