The involvement of U.S. money in the European rescue package aimed at bailing out spendthrift nations like Greece is getting an increasing amount of press coverage stateside, having recently transformed into something of a red-meat issue for the party out of power.

From the talented pen of Nate Beeler of the Washington Examiner, this cartoon captures the more salient political issues that talking heads seem to overlook.











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And it should. Why should we increase our own deficit spending to save a country have has been deficit spending to get in the mess in the first place?