Shoe by Gary Brookins and Susie MacNelly for May 18, 2024

Saudi Arabia…..

Belfry will get paid, he has a job for life!

Somewhere Else.

Not ours, that’s for sure.

Not his corner.

Make him stand in the corner until it shows up.

I’m not even gonna touch that one. (Mostly because I don’t want to be banned!)

Stock Market broke 40K for the first time ever yesterday.

Must be Sen. Belfry’s corner.

Forget the corner, call the coroner.

In Belfry’s hip pocket (like a good portion of ‘residents’ of the ’halls of Congress) ! ! ! !

Another question is, “Prosperity for whom?”

They promised a chicken in every pot, but I like my marijuana straight.

Prosperity is like fusion power, always just around the corner.

One Eastern European leader, in the days of the Iron Curtain and the Cold War, proclaimed in a rah-rah speech that “the Millennium is on the horizon!”

In the car afterward, one of his toady bureaucrats asked him in all supposed seriousness if it was true that the Millennium is on the horizon.

The grand pooh-bah replied, “Don’t you know that the horizon is defined as the line that recedes as you approach it?”

Prosperity is always just around the corner. It’s the American dream. Prosperity for me, me, me. The rest of you are on your own.

We have prosperity, prosperity like we have not seen since Clinton. Look at the numbers, understand the facts.

Average hourly earnings are up 4.1% compared to a year ago. That’s faster than the latest rate of inflation,