It spews at an ever-increasing rate.  Nothing that people try even slows it down, let alone stop it.  It threatens ruination to the entire nation.  The Gulf spill?  Certainly that’s true in the short term, but two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Ramirez thinks more long term in his latest editorial cartoon for Investors Business Daily.  Like the Deepwater Horizon blowout, Ramirez’ focus lies on an unfolding economic catastrophe that is solely the fault of human error:

We’re hearing a lot about America’s addiction to crude oil in the wake of the Gulf disaster.  We need to address the Gulf, but for the long term, we need to end Washington’s addiction to public spending, borrowing, and taxation, or we will endure a fiscal collapse that will dwarf the damage done by BP in the Gulf.

Ramirez has a terrific collection of his works: Everyone Has the Right to My Opinion, which covers the entire breadth of Ramirez’ career, and it gives fascinating look at political history.  Read my review here, and watch my interviews with Ramirez here and here.  And don’t forget to check out the entire Investors.com site, which has now incorporated all of the former IBD Editorials, while individual investors still exist.