This cartoon by Kipper Williams from The Guardian is a comment on the fiscal cliff deal, which the US Congress approved late Tuesday night. Although the deal has prevented the sharp tax increases and big spending cuts which could have sent the US economy into recession and led to an increase in unemployment, some commentators have accused the US of 'kicking the can down the road' (see here and here, for example), since "the deal puts off the toughest decisions about spending cuts for military and domestic programs, and does nothing to mitigate the looming partisan showdown on the debt ceiling, which must rise soon to avoid default on U.S. loans" (source: The State).
The cartoon shows Uncle Sam literally kicking a can down the road. If you kick the can down the road, you delay a decision in hopes that the problem or issue will go away or somebody else will make the decision later.
