Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for August 31, 2015

Hey, no harm in looking.

Nice!

calvins first lesson in capitalism…

Wall Street – here i come!!!!!

Not in 1995, which is the date on the strip. In 1935, maybe. In those days for 25c you could get a Coke, a comic, and a fistfull of candy.

Apparently not quite ALL his prayers.

Calvin: six year old, or college student?

At least Calvin is someone who does not resist change.

To view the following strip in the archive and help GoComics generate revenue, please click on the blue archive link below. To view the strip directly, click on the image below or stretch it.Calvin found that quarter back in 1995. Today he would have to find 40 cents to have the same buying power. Not a huge difference, because inflation has been low for the past 20 years.However, Charlie Brown found a quarter in 1953. That’s equivalent to finding $2.25 today.Peanuts (June 27, 1953)

This is why the Trickle down economic theory doesnt work.

Found a C note on the bank floor while standing in line. It had been folded twice over and was very flat so no one had noticed. Must have fallen out of someone’s wallet or purse. I asked those in line..no one claimed losing a bill and into my pocket it went.

Oh, and:

This was my reaction when I found $100 on the floor at my local convenience store.

Here’s what my son says: When I found a penny, what I wanted cost a nickel. when I got a nickel, what I wanted cost a quarter, when I had a quarter, what I wanted cost $1………………………………………………

A few years ago, I found a $100 bill on the floor of a bowling alley. I looked around to see if anyone appeared to be looking for the lost bill. Seeing nobody apparently looking, I went to the main counter and reported the discovery to the “manager in charge”.

He said, “Give it to me. When someone comes to claim it, I’ll make sure it is returned.”

I replied, “No, if someone comes looking for a lost $100 bill, tell them it will be with me on alley ??.”

Nobody claimed it, so I took it home…

When I was about 8-years old, I found a fifty-cent piece (remember those?) under the swing at the park and my brothers said I HAD to share it with them (yeah, right… something they would NEVER do with me).Twenty some odd years later, I was walking with my best friend and she was lamenting about how broke she was (we were both living paycheck-to-paycheck at the time) when I looked down and found a $20 bill. I gave it to her (she needed it more than me).

Once I found a $100. I figured out who probably dropped it (it was outside his car door in the work parking lot), and returned it. (He was a multi-millionaire developer who ran the office next door.) I got a “Thank you — I’ll buy you lunch sometime.” 21 years later, I’m still waiting for the lunch.

Good Luck!

The only way to measure the value of anything is to determine how long you have to work to buy it..I realized that in the mid 90s when buying some boots from a local merchant that was going under after WM came into town. He was apologetic about the price, $165, Red Wing.I told him that was the cheapest pair of boots I ever bought.I only had to work 6 hours to buy them. The most expensive pair of boots I ever bought cost me $19.95 that I bought from his Dad in 1960.

1960 boot price $19.95, I made $45 a week. Work 2 1/4 days to buy boots. 1995 boot price $165, I made $1,000 a week. Work 6 hours to buy boots.

I’m retired now and bought a new pair in 2013. Boots cost $250, so I sat on my butt, wasting time commenting on comic strips for 2 days to buy boots

Can you ‘dig’, Calvin?

@orinoco womble,I’d tell that monk, “Give me my change or I’ll take it out of your hide”!

@orinoco womble,…or, in a less confrontational vein, “If a man die, shall he live again? All the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change comes.” – Job 14:14

You could still buy a paper for a quarter in 1995

How much is enough? Just a little more.

You have two cows.

Socialism: State takes one and gives it to someone else.

Communism: State takes both of them and gives you as much milk as you need.

Bureaucratic Communism: State takes both of them and gives you as much milk as the regulations say you should need.

Bureaucracy: State regulates what you can feed them and when you can milk them. Then it pays you not to milk them. After that it takes both cows, shoots one, milks the other and pours the milk down the drain. Then it requires you to fill out forms accounting for the missing cows.

Fascism: State takes both of them and sells you milk.

Nazism: State takes both of them and shoots you.

Liberalism: State doesn’t care whether you exist, let alone your cows.

Capitalism: You sell one and buy a bull.

I nearly always pick up pennies or 2p I see on the ground.

xxx

You’ll eventually find a cave full of quartz! :)

@LeadingEdge: The Trickle Down Theory? Well, let’s see… Calvin has a theory that, since he found one quarter, a second quarter may have escaped through a hole in someone’s pocket and trickled down their leg onto the ground nearby.

The “Trickle Down” straw man is pure fiction. Thomas Sowell says it best.

17 page article with footnotes: http://www.tsowell.com/images/Hoover%20Proof.pdf

Soundbite summary for modern thinkers: http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2014/01/07/the-trickledown-lie-n1772687/page/1

Calvin is like us—gets his dreams, and immediately he begins grubbing in the dirt for more. [sigh]