Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for April 20, 2011

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

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

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

Government doesn’t pull its own weight.

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

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

But think how much money we’re saving!

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.

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

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

Either way, they are going to go in circles!

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

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

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

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

Avast, ye scurvy bilge-rats!!

“Left?”

“Right?!”

Shiver me timbers!!

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

Aye, me parrot concurs…

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…..

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!

Maybe it’s the Circle Line.

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

Put the oars back together with red tape.

All around the mulberry bush…

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

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

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!

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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!

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…

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

The ship of state goes ‘round and ‘round.

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

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

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.)

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.

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

brilliant

Lets hope that side is leading you to the right way