Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for April 20, 2011

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    pouncingtiger  over 13 years ago

    LIke the U.S. with a Republica President (case in point, Reagan and Dubya).

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    Chrisnp  over 13 years ago

    Whenever the other party gets elected, all these guys get fired and they get a new bunch to row on the other side.

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    GROG Premium Member over 13 years ago

    Looks like what’s been going on with the proposed budget cuts…..just going around in circles.

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    Bittermelon of Truth  over 13 years ago

    Government doesn’t pull its own weight.

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    loudmouthbass  over 13 years ago

    looks about right to me…moochers on the left either late or not bothering to show up at all….until the first of the month of course

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    Olfarto  over 13 years ago

    Sure it does, BinaryWiener - the government is the one playing the drums!

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    Can't Sleep  over 13 years ago

    But think how much money we’re saving!

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    ostviking  over 13 years ago

    On a rowed vessel the rowers face aft, that means that all of these rowers are seated on the port or left benches. It is the benches on the right that are empty and therefore not pulling their weight. I think that is Wiley’s message de jour.

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    lewisbower  over 13 years ago

    Wonder why the only ones working are on the right? Wiley, you trying to say something?

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    Wiley creator over 13 years ago

    Don’t read more into it than there is, Lewreader. They had to be on one side or the other, so they were placed on that side for composition reasons. Besides, they’re actually on the left side of the ship, as the bow of the ship would be at their backs. Depends on where you’re standing.

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    Potrzebie  over 13 years ago

    So the boat currently lists to the left?!! I guess the slavedrivers change every four years and then it lists to the right?!

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    twj0729  over 13 years ago

    Either way, they are going to go in circles!

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    Superfrog  over 13 years ago

    Don’t worry. It’s probably just a three hour tour.

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    vzs1022  over 13 years ago

    “Clowns to the left of me, joker’s to the right, here I am stuck in the middle with you”

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    Destiny23  over 13 years ago

    As long as you switch sides every four years, your journey averages out to a straight line!

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    tizzo  over 13 years ago

    I think he’s pointing out that the people on the right do all the work.

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    phuhknees  over 13 years ago

    Avast, ye scurvy bilge-rats!!

    “Left?”

    “Right?!”

    Shiver me timbers!!

    It be “port” and “starboard,” ye balmy lubbers!!

    Aye, me parrot concurs…

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    Varnes  over 13 years ago

    Phuh, thank you for setting us straight…….and Wiley’s right, the way they’re sitting, the boat would circle to port….Mmmmmmm….Port wine…..

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    ImaginaryFriend  over 13 years ago

    Those are all the citizens, not the government. The empty side represents the union workers. They all got (off shored) outsourced anyway.

    This comic is great in so many ways!

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    Elaine Rosco Premium Member over 13 years ago

    Maybe it’s the Circle Line.

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    Zorcher  over 13 years ago

    A similar situation in the Canadian Commons. Empty seats and government still getting paid.

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    ilsapadu  over 13 years ago

    Put the oars back together with red tape.

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    DjGuardian  over 13 years ago

    All around the mulberry bush…

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    WaitingMan  over 13 years ago

    Democrats are gutless. Republicans are insane. America is in deep doodoo.

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    rowena28 Premium Member over 13 years ago

    It might be more accurate to show the rowers on each side of the boat rowing in opposite directions so the boat remains stationary.

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    treered  over 13 years ago

    loudmouthbass hasn’t seen Ben Hur, here, the LEFT shows up for work, the right is just no no no…. Wiley, sorry for politizing, great cartoon!

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    lazygrazer  over 13 years ago

    LOL, that’s perfectly funny, Wiley! Well done.

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    bmonk  over 13 years ago

    It does remind me of when John XXIII was asked how many people work at the Vatican, and he replied, “About half.”

    The Catholic Church has a longer experience of bureaucracy than anyone–they’ve been working on it for some 1400 years or so.

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    dflak  over 13 years ago

    I love my government. It’s the people we’ve hired to run it that I have a problem with.

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    Spyderred  over 13 years ago

    I note there are no rations in sight. Must be that the money was spent on lots of wars in other countries that the people in the US are forced to pay for. Did you know that in countries invaded by the US health care is free and gasoline is subsidized. US taxpayers pay for all that too.

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    worldisacomic  over 13 years ago

    And the guy in the front row is asleep at the oar! Sounds familiar.

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    runar  over 13 years ago

    bmonk, the Chinese empire had bureaucracies well before the Catholic church even existed.

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    RevvieQuar  over 13 years ago

    Seems to me the rowers on the wrong side.

    They should be on the left, rowing in leftist circles, given who’s in the White House now.

    AH, I get it! This is a Wisconsin ship, where the Lefties fled their duties and hid!

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    treered  over 13 years ago

    RQ, please catch up. the one’s working are OUR SIDE, the awol ones are YOUR SIDE. as if it is that easy to tell one from the other…

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    BornintheUSA  over 13 years ago

    Where’s Capt’n Eddie when you need him?

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    farmermatt  over 13 years ago

    The ship of state goes ‘round and ‘round.

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    Bender_Sastre  over 13 years ago

    As my Grandpappy used to say, “too much left wing or right wing and the whole government flies up it own _”.

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    lindz.coop Premium Member over 13 years ago

    Just another cushy govt job – double the work for half the pay.

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    bergamot  over 13 years ago

    Just like the control towers at the airport… (This is NOT a jab at air traffic controllers, they have been understaffed and overworked for years.)

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    prrdh  over 13 years ago

    Pursuant to AFSCME work rules, for one hour the crew on the right rows while the crew on the left is personing the cannon. Then they switch tasks for an hour, and so on.

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    ellery_l  over 13 years ago

    With Reagan and Dubya, it’s one tier of rowers; with a Democrat president, there’d be no rowers.

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    Cassie1027  over 13 years ago

    brilliant

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    kelzzy  about 13 years ago

    Lets hope that side is leading you to the right way

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