Comic #2533: 2012-04-23

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Panel 1: "Good evening my fellow Americans. As many of you know, the presidency has little effect on the economy, but gets most of the blame or credit for it."

Panel 2: "Historically, this has led to the president lying to the public, and saying things that embarrass him in front of his staff economists."

Panel 3: "To remedy this, I’ve created a new cabinet position - Economic Whipping Boy."

Panel 4: "When a bad economic report comes in, I will publicly flog him as a proxy for our fear and anger toward a system we don’t comprehend."

Panel 5: "What’s this? Lots of new jobs were created, but the unemployment rate went up!? How does that even make sense?"

Panel 6: "Additionally, he will receive floggings every time the stock market dips, and canning’s every tax day."

Panel 7: "Thank you, and God bless America. Annnnnnd, we’re out."

Panel 8: "How’d it go?" "Great! Now that nobody thinks you’re in charge of the economy, your approval rating is at 91% and people want to hear about other domestic issues!"

Panel 9: "Mr. President?" "Mr. President, I think you fell asleep."

Panel 10: "Anyway, we want you to demand Congress sign the 'Fix Our Economy Now' bill." "What’s it do?" "I don’t see how that’s relevant."

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