Only In America!

Only In America

In China, the Communist government puts its highest officials in jail when accused of wrongdoing. In Russia, allegedly wrongdoing capitalists have found themselves behind bars in Siberia.

In the United States, firms caught finagling billions from consumers get fined millions of dollars by the federal government. But no one is found responsible and, hence, no one goes to jail. Seems money blinds the Feds and they look no further to see who gave the green light to the scams in the first place.

Since we are in between – in the world of local politics and exciting city administration moves – we asked our fabulous cartoonist Ron Taylor, better known as “RT”, to try and capture this phenomena in his cartoons. He did, but it took three panels.

Our next question is: Who set up this policy where one can now buy one’s way out of prison?

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