Monty by Jim Meddick for March 19, 2013

Welcome to Walmart.

I’m surprised he isn’t home schooled with tutors.

But by then we’ll have touchy-feely holgrams to try before we buy. Oh, and don’t forget the flying cars

And how about the 3-D printer?

We have a 3D printer @ my college…

Reminds me of a satirical character we got /had on TV Dolph (a blue hippo ) from Wulff-Morgenthaler.

The “invisible hand” Adam Smith was referring to is at the end of each of our arms. The “market” comprises each of us making individual production and consumption decisions. The alternative is the heavy hand of central planning. Central planning sounds great in theory. In practice, it’s never worked anywhere — but hundreds of millions of people have suffered greatly because of it. -Ask yourself: would you rather decide for yourself what to buy, and what to work at — or would you rather have those decisions made for you by anonymous bureaucrats in a government ministry?

Once again, Art mirrors Life.

soylent green is next…

Aww, Sedgie! You’re wasting a perfectly good Monopoly game set! Go out and have Jarvis shut down a real hippie boutique!

Has anyone ever won a game of Monopoly without cheating?

Free Market means we, all of us, make the choice of where we shop and what we buy. So the same people who vote for Romney and Obama are the ones who shop at Walmart and Macy’s. Want to blame someone, look in the mirror. The 1% are there because we put them there. And that includes all those liberals and right-wingers.

scary….!

Shopping on line beats the whale feathers out of going to the big box.

@AlexPK85: At the age of nine, I beat a Princeton economics major at Monopoly without cheating. It wasn’t because I knew anything about economics, either. Now that guy, defeated by a child, is probably a leading economist. That’s who’s in charge of the money. Makes a lot of things fall right into place. I need a drink.

No Monty, Moondog or Fleshy = no Monty. :(

oh my gaud that was so freekin funny. You can do a separate strip altogether for Master Seg. and Jarvis.

This kind of opposition to Walmart is an old, old story. Back a century ago, when supermarkets began to replace the little corner grocery stores, do you know what one of the main complaints about the bigger stores was? “Their prices are too low.” Of course, it wasn’t the consumers who were complaining but the proprietors of the little stores who were losing business.

Again, even earlier in the history of the US, when the first railroads began to compete for freight shipment business with barges towed on artificial canals (remember the old folk song “The Erie Canal?”) some state legislatures actually passed laws stating that railroads couldn’t charge less for carrying a certain weight of freight than the barges on the canals did!

Times change and if you don’t change with them, you go under.

To a point. Buying clothes on line is hit or miss at best.

Don’t like walmart, don’t shop there. It’s really that simple. Pay your higher prices elsewhere. Walmart has helped more people, by the things they need, at prices they can afford. I hate the place, but not for the same reasons you guys apparently do. It’s called free market, and freedom. People have the right to shop there, just as you have the right NOT to shop there.