Debt Ceiling

These are debt ceiling images- the flag is for a Cornell Magazine piece on "Starving the Beast" debunking the idea that government is of no value and what might happen to society if it were abolished...  The second is for Slate.com about, well...
 There was a taboo ever since the early 80's about using dollar signs and anthropomorphization in editorial illustration that originated at the New York Times, I believe- probably Heller- because it was done to death.(I helped.) Then Cristoph Niemann came along and having not been privy to this ban, made the world safe again for dollar signs and walking inanimate objects!