Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for May 18, 2012

It is probably the only time Romney parties.

My money cries for company – and doesn’t get any.

If only republican voters would realize that Romney is a 1%er.

The sad thing is, I think this is how Libs really think.

More 3-D economics…

Duck, Dodge, Delegate and Disappear (with all the money)

Romney’s money does indeed party with Jeff’s.

According to the Gospel of Mormon, “The kingdom of God will be taken away from you 99 percenters and given to us who know how to hoard our capital” (Mitt 21:43).

This punk needs to be slapped around. Badly.

Read James Gilligan’s, “Why Some Politicians Are More Dangerous than Others.”

>Liberals think?!

if thinking can mean seeing beyond the end of one’s nose, then, yes, liberals think. this is how you can differentiate them from conservatives.

Definition of an economist – Some one who can be and usually is wrong, but is still considered an expert.

Somebody else (wish I could remember who) put the idea of trickle down economics like this:

“Trickle down economics is a policy whereupon the basis of the economy can be compared to the rich being allowed to eat a large meal, and the poor have to survive off of the table scraps that are left. It proceeds to say that for the poor to be better off, what you need to do is give the rich a bigger meal.”

If the rich in the USA actually used their money to create jobs right now, unemployment would be non-existent, and not just because people stopped looking for work.

Republican voters are just ignorant sheep the Rich lead to the slaughter. Keeping the Republican voters scared of being poor is all it takes, as the Republican voter is so stupid and chooses to stay ignorant, lest they see how easily the Rich have "used’ them to get rich off of.

was blind, but now i see, was lost but now i am found.

just watch how easily the Republican voters buy the BS. that always stuns me. shows how willfully ignorant some people can be. and of course the fear of the “Other” is all the Rich have over the rest of us. once that fear is gone, poof. the Rich appear for what they are. Evil and communists lol. the irony is very Rich.

truth as they say, has a liberal bias.or Biblically, The truth shall set you free. lol, which is why the Republicans lie from the getgo.

of course liberals who buy into Obama are no better than Republicans, maybe even worse. Obama is the best Republican the GOP has running of the two. Makes Romney look as hollow and moronic as the Rich usually are.

My money went on vacation and never came back!

Conservatives have plenty of incentive: look at all the tax breaks they get for moving jobs to China.

The way both “conservatives” and “liberals” swallow government propaganda (which is funded by the oligarchs of this country, who are not interested in ideologies, but only money and power) never ceases to amaze me. You are at each others throats because that is what the moneyed elite want. You are two busy hating each other to see how they cater to both your prejudices while bleeding you both dry. The USA is being sold off to the highest bidders, with both of supposedly opposite political parties willingly complicit in it. When Guard SGT mentions “the corrupt party”, he doesn’t realize he’s describing the entire congress. To suggest that either “side” of our one party government is more corrupt than the other is the pinnacle of childish ignorance.

Yeah, we do. Maybe conservatives will try it someday too..

Your extreme lack of respect for your president makes me doubt your credentials. Our military is not taught to be so disrespectful of its Commander in Chief. You are not worthy to call yourself a Guard SGT, if that is indeed what you are and not an imposter.

My money is used to serve drinks to Romney’s money.

Those that can work do. Those that can’t, teach.

Ah yes, the narrow-minded, selfish Repuglican world view is summed up in that quote from the play Man and Superman by George Bernard Shaw. A much better turn of that phrase would be, “Those that can, do; those that can do more, teach.”

Hello Neighbors,Those who place their money in these overseas accounts are equivalent to shoplifters at the grocery and retail stores. At last reading, each of us pay an additional 15% for milk, vegetables and clothing because of theft. The wealthy use bridges, roads, and parks. They benefit from the labors of police, teachers, and sanitation workers. One wonders if the middle class would have lower taxes or better services if the funds being illegally hidden from the government were available for infrastructure, disasters, and to pay the men and women who protect us locally, nationally, and internationally.Respectfully,C.

What a blizzard of unnecessary words. This strip is clever and pointed satire, and the only response needed is either a knowing grin, or a frustrated sigh. Anything more means that we’re commenting on each other, and the strip doesn’t matter..Besides, the whole premise of the joke is that people invest in order to create jobs, or not. Baloney. Apart from philanthropy, which I’m not knocking, people start businesses (or invest in them) in order to get a positive return on their money. This isn’t venal or callous, it’s simple common sense: what else would you reasonably do with your money, again excepting open philanthropy? Job creation is usually a part of the process, but it is not its purpose..Taxes and regulations can make it harder to do that, however useful those may be, so the business creation and investment will go wherever they can be less emcumbered. (Not necessarily to China, by the way; cities and states in this country have a long history of offering tax and regulatory breaks to businesses they want to locate there.) Again, it’s no more than common sense..Now think of this — businesses are accused of “hoarding” their money in this miserable economy, by paying off debts and building cash reserves, instead of expanding production and hiring workers. (Ironically, consumers are accused of the same thing: paying off their debts instead of indulging in “job creating” new spending.) Well, if you were in water over your head, and someone threw you a life preserver (as, say, stimulus money or a tax break), would you give it away to someone else before you hung onto it long enough to lose some of the lead weights pulling you down? Or before the water went down enough so you could feel solid ground under your feet? Then, and only then, would you feel motivated to “share the wealth”. Again, this is neither venal nor callous, but only common sense..Real life can’t be squeezed into a neat ideological box on either side. Less ranting and more thinking, please.

The banks said NO in ’33, and they are saying that today. Atlas is shrugging the ’bama.

@SCAATY_423“Well, if you were in water over your head, and someone threw you a life preserver…”The trick is; don’t get into that dangerous situation, and then beg for help. Learn to swim early and practice until successful.

Funny, It seems Liberals know more about how Conservatives think than Conservatives realize… and vice-versa.

Jeeezus.. so many stupidities to argue. So little space.Are you all of the age group that thinks Jon Stewart is actually a Scotsman??

So far, i haven’t seen a rational argument from “Guard SGT”, only dirty names.

To my dour neo-confederate fellow readers of Doonesbury…this strip is how a lot of intelligent PEOPLE think when they are joking about very serious situations…validated by conservative writers from ancient history…have a couple of ignorant clowns out of their real element holding forth on important issues ignorantly…Shakespeare, Racine, a couple of the ancient Greeks.

Try to know your true cultural traditions…you’ll be better conservatives and get the joke more often. Maybe.

The only product of Republicant governance seems to be to funnel the money of all into the hands of the few. Works well for them. Not so good for us.

brilliant

John Galt lives.

No, John Gault was a character in a second-rate book by an atheistic, self-absorbed writer.

I asked Atlas, “Who is John Galt?” Atlas just shrugged.

Ah! The Air Force. That says it all. I had suspected from your belligerent attitude as much. Save the vitriol for your weekend warrior meetings or write a blog for Fox Noise.

The difference is, he deserved it, and still does.

Really strange, because GoComics says I’ve only been around here since October, 2009. Do you have me confused with someone else?

I’m a small business owner. Work entirely in the private sector. Taxpayer. I receive no money from the government – no salary, pension, or VA health.What about you Guard? Do you receive any redistributed income from us taxpayers?

Congratulations. You have just stumbled into the truth. Obama is a Republican and Mitt is a Democrat, because there really no difference between the two. The teaparty people and the occupy Wall Street people might as well stay home in November, because the winner isn’t going to pay any attention to either group.

“I agree with you.Liberals seem to think that only government can create jobs. It doesn’t. It can easily destroy them with bad policies.”.Thank you, but I have no use for such generalizations. Conservatives, for their part, may think that only the private sector can create jobs, which is palpable nonsense.

Just had a strange thought after reading this week’s series of strips… Jeff and Zipper ARE wearing trunks, aren’t they?

so . . . a lifetime living on redistributed taxpayer money . . .

“… during a problem, the Governor can call out the National Guard to assist.”

You mean like Kent State?

Spare me the histrionics. I’ve seen far too many of your kind in my 67 years – which included 2 tours of duty in Vietnam with Special Forces BTW – and work throughout the free and not-so-free world. I am neither a Liberal nor a Conservative. Simply a citizen who is weary of the ugliness of closed-minded individuals. I have no political party affiliation but vote in every election.

G Sgt is nothing but a wisp of bad air, trying to defame the President, AND real veterans and active duty personnel. He dishonors the oath he never believed in.

“Anyone that points out the simple facts of what he is is tarred a feathered for speaking out. That sounds too much like a dictatorship to me.”

I don’t have near enough time to refute all the ridiculous “points” you have made on this board, but let me point out this insane over-the-top nonsense:

“Tarred and feathered”, as if liberals were coming to your house and dragging you out and hazing you. Online, yeah, you’re going to get blasted, but that’s what happens when you back an insane theory.

Why would the Republicans allow Obama to get away with that? Do you actually think the RNC is in on it with Obama, because if they had any possible way of getting a disqualification, don’t you think they would have? The McCain team and the RNC would have gone to the courts before the last vote was counted.

Bill O Reilly himself has come out and said there’e nothing wrong with Obama’s qualifications. Give it up.

@Linguist @dtroutmaWell said.

Stupid rich people, don’t they know that they and their money are property of the looters and thieves of the OWS movement, that the people best suited to decide how it should be spent and invested are the people who did nothing to produce it, and whose conception of economics is something a mentally challenged five year old might have come up with? How DARE these evil rich people act as though they have some sort of right to keep their own money? Don’t they know that wanting to keep your own money is “greed”, but wanting to take other people’s money by threats of violence is not?