Going To The Scary Place
November 10th, 2008 Barry Posted in Barry's favorites, Economic cartoons | Comments Off on Going To The Scary Place
TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON
This cartoon has six panels, with a caption at bottom. The caption says “GOING TO THE SCARY PLACE.”
All the panels depict two woman, talking as they walk through a residential neighborhood, with fences and houses and trees. One woman is wearing jeans and a peacoat; the other is wearing a sweater over a long flowy skirt.
PANEL 1
PEACOAT: I’m still not sure if subprime mortgages were a good or a bad thing.
SWEATER: How so?
PANEL 2
PEACOAT: On the one hand, when credit companies tempt poor people with mortgages they can’t afford, we end up with lots of poor people losing their homes and life savings!
PANEL 3
A closeup of Peacoat. She’s looking a bit angry and making a palms-up gesture with her hands that I’d roughly translate as “what the fuck?”
PEACOAT: But without subprime mortgages, who’d make it possible for poor people to buy homes and build up security? Poor folks get screwed either way.
PANEL 4
Sweater talks seriously, her arms folded on her chest. She’s got her mouth open WAAAAY wide, and I have no idea why I drew it that way (I’m typing this transcript in 2019, and this cartoon was drawn in 2007).
SWEATER: I see what you mean. But we can’t even begin to get out of that trap without looking at the root problems of an economy that values profits over people.
PANEL 5
Close-up on Sweater. She’s getting a bit excited/angry as she talks, waving her arms and with an intense expression.
SWEATER: The left has to stop being so afraid of questioning capitalism, and so afraid of looking at socialism when it makes sense!
PANEL 6
Sweater has a questioning expression as she looks up into a tree. Peacoat can no longer be seen, and her word balloon is coming down from the tree.
SWEATER: er… Why are you hiding in that tree?
PEACOAT (speaking from tree): Y-y-you said th-th-the “S” word!
SWEATER: See, this is exactly the sort of thing I’m talking about.
