This cartoon was made by R.J. Matson for the St Louis Post-Dispatch news paper.
Two kids are sitting on a boat which is arriving on the "Cayman Islands"on which is written "Believin' In America", Mitt Romney's presidencial campaign slogan.
Romney is standing on the island, digging a hole in the sand to hide a chest full of money. He is explaining to the kids on the boat how to gain the most of money possible, which is outsourcing jobs "so you don't have to pay more wages or benefits to your workers..." and offshoring the profits "so you don't have to pay more taxes to your country".
The kids are chearing him for his "smartness", and tell him he should be president (in relation to his election campaign). They are even calling him "grandpa" as a sign of affection, to make people believe he is a nice guy.
In the background we can also see another island and a whole land, Bermuda and Switzerland, on which there are crosses, indicating the spot where he hid other money chest, like a treasure.
The three lands are actually tax havens which means Romney hid his money there to escape from his country's taxes so he could get even more rich than he already is.
The cartoon is a critic oF Mitt Romney and his presidencial campaign. He blames him for showing only his lovely side to America by telling his country to believe in itself meanwhile in its back he is betraying his country by hiding money in other countries so he won't have to pay more taxes which countributes to the care of the country, and sending the work away from the country so he gains even more money and provide his country with thousands of jobs increasing unemployement.
The cartoon is related to the notion of spaces and exchanges. Offshroring and outsourcing both involve exchanges within different places all around the world. Due to business, and for some people's economic satisfaction, wealthy countries or companies prefers to transfer their jobs in poor countries and their money in tax havens, so that themselves can gain even more money from those exchanges. Perhaps, those exchanges are not totally beneficent as they make their country loose jobs and prevent poor countries from developing themselves.
This is a Geek and Poke cartoon.
Two characters, who are CEOs (Chief Executive Officer), are talking about changing the country where they were outsourcing, because even though they gave the "folks" there "thousands of jobs", "they couldn't get enough" because they wanted to "get paid"... To which the second CEO responds that is "unbelievable"...
The cartoonist mock the CEOs and the concept of outsourcing as the cartoom os ironic and satirical. The problem shown here is that the wealthy companies take advantage of their firms. The countries they settle their firms in are poor and people there would do anything for a living even though it ain't much. They are underpaied and struggle to live at least properly, it's barely like they were not paid at all just like the cartoon let understand. Meanwhile, the companies still find the way to complain about the ''big amount'' of money they are wasting on those firms and change to a more poor country if they ever try to get paid more.
Here the cartoon only speaks about the problem of offshoring. The cartoon is related to the notion of Spaces and Exchanges as the wealthy companies try to gain the most money possible even though it means encouraging poverty in already poor spaces and changing to another country if this one try to develop itself, letting alone the concequances it could have on peoples life there, they will get unemployement increased overmore the misery they already live in.
