Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for May 10, 2013

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    pawpawbear  over 11 years ago

    This is one the best Arcs I have seen on Non Sequiter. Bravo, Wiley, Bravo!(thunderous applause)

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    Can't Sleep  over 11 years ago

    Is this the first time we’ve heard the name of the town they live in?No doubt named for the local tribe of Whatchacallit Indians.

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    Odd Dog Premium Member over 11 years ago

    Just wait till they find out who’s behind it.

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    EDinWAState  over 11 years ago

    Oh if only it could really come to pass… I’ll shut up now.

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    solarrhino  over 11 years ago

    Odd to see this arc here, where the artist is so clearly fond of huge, intrusive government. If people would simply leave each other alone, to thrive or fail living according to their own actions, then yes indeed, we would have a much better and more peaceful country. A crucial step would be a Federal government stopped trying to end-run the limitations placed on it by the Constitution, and refused to redistribute money to promote any agenda.

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    Varnes  over 11 years ago

    solar, big government for a big country…nothing wrong with that…I don’t mind paying taxes…I love my country, the difference between us is that I’m willing to put my money where my mouth is….You are not…

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    michaelyukyuk  over 11 years ago

    Right on, Radish. Solarrhino, take a hike, shut up and mind your own business……and take Varnes with you.

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    jazzmoose  over 11 years ago

    insert applause here.

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    cdward  over 11 years ago

    Oh great, now they’re going to make Danae the queen of the world.

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    cdward  over 11 years ago

    @ Varnes… Well said!

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    roctor  over 11 years ago

    SUAMYOSB!

    Catchy retort for trolls.

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    tripwire45  over 11 years ago

    This would be perfect. All the news media would be compelled to go silent. Ah, bliss.

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    vwdualnomand  over 11 years ago

    the “shut up” movement made things worse for those cleveland girls.

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    The Life I Draw Upon  over 11 years ago

    All right! Danae has reached Maine-stream America.

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    Calvins Brother  over 11 years ago

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    minimainer  over 11 years ago

    I wish our esteemed Maine governor would shut up and stop minding our business.

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    puddlesplatt  over 11 years ago

    face hole?

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    nerdhoof  over 11 years ago

    The news networks can’t shut up, they’ve got 24 hours to fill. Remember when TV news was just a half hour, two or three times a day? Of course, we had newspapers, that we could pick up and put down whenever we wanted.

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    infinite_kydeem  over 11 years ago

    This is almost as good as the hoolahoop line!

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    StCleve72  over 11 years ago

    mmmmmmm

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    scsurfer  over 11 years ago

    @mythreesons, yup that’s exactly the country I want. It’s called “freedom” and “personal responsibility” and “small government” All those things the right wing is always spouting that really mean, to them, “do it my way.”

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    x666dog  over 11 years ago

    The Whatchamacallits had a smaller group that were always lost called the Fugarwes. No one ever saw them, but they were proud. You could hear them at night, yelling We’re the Fugarwes!

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    dogday Premium Member over 11 years ago

    My husband is from Maine and most of his family still live there. We both find this hysterical because anyone who knows Maine knows that Danae’s movement is indeed neah and deah to those Yankee hahts.

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    bmonk  over 11 years ago

    Economist James Rolph Edwards, Journal of Libertarian Studies, Vol. 21, Number 2 (Summer 2007):

    On pages one and two, Edwards cites two studies, over a seven-year period, backing up his figures. He writes:“[Government] income redistribution agencies are estimated to absorb about two-thirds of each dollar budgeted to them in overhead costs, and in some cases as much as three-quarters of each dollar. Using government data, Robert L. Woodson (1989, p. 63) calculated that, on average, 70 cents of each dollar budgeted for government assistance goes not to the poor, but to the members of the welfare bureaucracy and others serving the poor. Michael Tanner (1996, p. 136 n. 18) cites regional studies supporting this 70/30 split.

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    “In contrast, administrative and other operating costs in private charities absorb, on average, only one-third or less of each dollar donated, leaving the other two-thirds (or more) to be delivered to recipients. Charity Navigator, the newest of several private sector organizations that rate charities by various criteria and supply that information to the public on their web sites, found that, as of 2004, 70 percent of charities they rated spent at least 75 percent of their budgets on the programs and services they exist to provide, and 90 percent spent at least 65 percent. The median administrative expense among all charities in their sample was only 10.3 percent.”

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    IIRC, the best private charities do better than that, of course. Some give well over 90% to the needy. (Catholic Relief Services is at 94%, Feeding America is 97%, Food for the Poor, 96%) Others not so good (United Way at 85%, Salvation Army 82%) And then there’s the George Bush Foundation, at 30%, close to government standards . . .

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    Melekalikimaka  over 11 years ago

    Nice one Mr Miller. You made this a great week!

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    Alms4Thorby  over 11 years ago

    I wonder who spoke those golden words.

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    LV1951  over 11 years ago

    Whatchacallit is next to the twin towns “Thingamabob & Thingamagig.” lol

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