Back to Basics...

This cartoon shows how everyone thinks that America will have to go "back to basics" because of all of the general cuts in government spending that Obama is planning on making. This is called a sequester. In the cartoon, it is showing a man who just got out of his car to pee on a national parkway, called "Natchez Trace". On the bathroom door there is a lock and a "Closed" sign. This stands for modern things like public port-o-potties to be taken away because the government won't be able to fund them after all of the cuts the President will make. This cartoon is saying that the President will be making so many cuts in government spending that America won't have many of their basic, but modern needs, like a portable toilet.