Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for September 14, 2011

The Lester Thurow special is whatever the vendor can swipe from a passing food cart..(Really obscure joke – LT wrote “The Zero-Sum Society;” its thesis is that the economic role of the State is to “allocate loss.”)

And he’s serving free sweet “tea” with every “simple” meal.

About time Keynesian economics was exposed for the fraud it is!

Discounts for water carriers and coolaide bought in bulk.

@towerwarlockGive it a rest!!

“Non-Sequitur”is one of the best comics published because it provokes thought and ideas worth discussing. Mr. warlock has neither ideas nor thoughts and he has not yet figured out that name calling is not discussion.

He probably still thinks that giving tax breaks to millionaires creates jobs.

@towerwarlock – your mistake was singling out one political view in your comment. In the future you should keep it neutral so readers can transplant their own views/opinions into it. That way pseudo-intellectuals can feel smarter than they are, and those with a good sense of humor can get a chuckle out of what has been a banal strip lately.

I prefer being a cartoon punned it.

Your simplistic understanding of what Wiley is referring to here is consistent with the theories being “sold” in the cartoon. There are simplistic theories out there and they are coming from the right. Don’t even pretend you don’t understand that you lackey tool.

love “smarm au jus” – just can’t have smarm without oozing a little

yes, I know that sounds wrong, but it was meant well.

Actually the Keynsian model is rather complex. If you want simplistic, look no further than the Laffer Curve. Remember: If your pholosophy can fit on a bumper sticker, it probably belongs there.

I’ll have the special of the day: a Grande tea with a triple shot of Kool-Aid! Mmm-mmm!

A Tea Party joint?

Is there such a thing as “Simplistic Economic Theories”? Let’s get 2 economists together to sort this question out ONCE AND FOR ALL! lol

you can take all the economists in the world, lay them end to end, and still not come to a conclusion…

Tasty…

The Laffer Curve is just a fancy graphic for the Law of Diminishing Returns, and it applies to more than just taxation. .Why do people reject the notion that it is possible for the tax level to reach a point that reduces GDP?

be easy on tower:

“…You was wrong about Potts.

Yes, from his point of view, at his age, l was.

The girls was right about the gossip.

From their point of view.

What other point is there?

You have to figure that out for yourself…"

he’ll learn, eventually…

If they got two economists together to discuss something, they’d probably end up with 5 theories to explain why the current economy is impossible.

“Reaganomics” required a new unit of measure to sell it: the “Simple ton”.

Towerwarlock, you left out the Republican Neofeudal Grand Oligarch Party which is just as inept, inane, and incompetent. Ideologies, right or left, are a disaster in the economic community. “It has always failed in the past, so let’s try it again.”

Christian Republican American Party.I like that.

I enjoy this strip. Wiley’s commentary is spot on and reminds me of my beloved Pogo. Wiley and Walt Kelly give the sharp end of the stick to whomever deserves it.As far as economic theories go, Wiley has the shown the honest truth. Not one of them is worth the paper they are printed on. That is especially so for those based on “sound mathematical principles” because they totally ignore the greatest driving force in economics: GREED. It is like trying to calculate ballistic trajectories or orbits to six decimal places but ignoring gravity — utter nonsense and a waste of time.

To cesspoolwarlock:

Why must there be people like you you wasting oxygen????pos typical teabaggin faux news viewer

/“Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.” – Andre Gide

I don’t usually defend Ron Paul but he said he wouldn’t let an uninsured person die. It was psycho tea-partiers screaming from the audience that letting them die was OK.

My guess is that several of the other candidates on that stage would agree with the psychos in the audience.

If you took all the (fill in the blank) and laid them end to end , it would serve them right.

ALL – notice how Wiley didn’t single out any party but people have. Thank you for proving my point.

@Tom – The US is not a democratic experiment, that’s just a slogan. It could probably fit on a bumper sticker.

jmalmstrom: My version is “Truth cannot fit on a bumper sticker” – unfortunately neither can that one.

You are the pundit, I mean expert.

“This begins to explain alot about the Democratic National Socialist Party and where they get their inept ideas about what works and what does not.” I suppose the Partito Nazionale Republicana having tax broken us into a recession have a claim to the better idea because God is on their side and talks to the GOPE ?