Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for January 27, 2012
January 20, 2012
February 03, 2012
Transcript:
lucky ducky the poor little duck who's rich in luck in "expatriate games" mustache: how was your visit with your money, hollingsworth? hound: excellent! my money works so hard for the u.s.a. -- fueling the economy, creating jobs... i wish there was something i could do for it to show our appreciation. mustache: well, your money could certainly use a vacation! hound: that's it, stillson! i'll send it on a well-deserved holiday! mustache: florida? puerto rico? hound: yech. too downscale! my money does not speak spanish! i've got it! sunny, beautiful beaches -- the cayman islands! and that is the only reason i have cayman island bank accounts and companies! press: it's got nothing to do with upper-class tax avoidance? hound: my money and I are patriots, sir! in fact, it's the lower class that's been traipsing off to foreign lands... ...spending their u.s. money offshore, getting special tax breaks! aha! here comes a poor duck, just back from a tour! where were you, and did you leave any assets?! ducky: iraq, and i left a leg! hound: see?! lucky ducky!
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walruscarver2000 almost 13 years ago
Why, whoever could he be talkinbg about?
pbarnrob almost 13 years ago
Multinational (or ‘global’) corporations’ reason for being is not to ‘create jobs’ as their servants the R’s try to keep reminding us; it is to return a profit to their stockholders (in whatever sector, including finance, AKA ‘manipulating symbols’), and it had better be more than last quarters’ profit, or heads will roll.Thus if there are labor costs, those must be minimized, usually meaning offshore or ‘third-world’ labor, until Americans can be convinced to work for a dollar-a-day like those in other countries.If automation is involved, the labor cost becomes a smaller part of the equation, and the clever manager can skim off a larger part of the returns, with a healthy bonus.We must all own lucrative robot slaves immediately, to support us!
Whitecamry almost 13 years ago
At least Mallard Fillmore served his country!
Christopher Shea almost 13 years ago
“The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn’t; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht.” — G. K. Chesterton
Tommy1733 almost 13 years ago
“Sigh!” – Nate the Neocon.
milano99 almost 13 years ago
“oops” — Rick Perry
number9dream almost 13 years ago
Don’t swift boat me, bro’.
petkov almost 13 years ago
Sheer genius! When you are brilliant you are brilliant but those superpack fun comics suck.
Chuck Norton almost 13 years ago
Romney defends his Swiss bank account and Cayman Islands account by claiming those deposits were made by a “blind trust” that acted without his direct knowledge. That explanation is worthy of a cartoon treatment just by itself- pity the poor man whose money has a disability!
kylegann almost 13 years ago
Wait, will Lucky Ducky be one-legged from now on? Will he be progressively whittled down as he gets luckier?
kylegann almost 13 years ago
And the superpak fun comics are my favorite.
Gokie5 almost 13 years ago
I like the superpak fun comics, too – dripping with satire. BTW, news.yahoo.com/comics has not shown this week’s “Tom the Dancing Bug.” It just keeps running the previous week’s strip.