Cartoons do my job for me again

I had intended to follow up on this morning's labor participation rate post with a discussion of last night's reported "compromise" between President Obama and Congressional Republicans, and my general feelings about the plan's efficacy.

But my post this morning turned into a more prolonged rant than I'd anticipated, and I ended up incidentally hitting some of this post's intended major points in the process. So without further ado, and following in the vein of this post and this post, I present to you this cartoon from The Washington Examiner's Nate Beeler:

Yeah, that about sums up my feelings on the matter. Well done, Nate.

[Washington Examiner]
(h/t The Mess That Greenspan Made)