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   Al said, 3 months ago

   You are selling the wrong kind of drinks for that to effective, kids

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   Yukoneric said, 3 months ago

   SELL to the workers……….

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   maybeinthenextworld said, 3 months ago

   Anybody else picking up on an anti-stimulus bill allegory here?

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   Doctor Toon said, 3 months ago

   maybeinthenextworld - I think it’s only you, this isn’t a political comic.
   Try State Of The Union, They love snarking about politics there.
   The rest of us appreciate it if the subject stays there.

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   maybeinthenextworld said, 3 months ago

   I appreciate your desire to avoid the snark … but just because you don’t like it here, it doesn’t make you spokesperson for the strip. Have you polled “the rest of us”?

   Because it sounds a bit self-aggrandizing IMHO.

   I like allegory … maybe it’s there maybe it’s not. But don’t bury your head in the sand and say, “not here! not allowed!” and to speak for “the rest of us” unless you have affadavits from all the readers of this comic.

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   jmworacle said, 3 months ago

   There innoccence about government will soon be shattered.

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   bald 716 said, 3 months ago

   lids like Yukoneric says , sell to the workers

   maybeinthenextworld

   i’m with doctortoon, take your political diatribe elsewhere.

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   maybeinthenextworld said, 3 months ago

   Bald – please show me any part of my comments that could be considered a “political diatribe.”

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   yyyguy said, 3 months ago

   maybeinthenextworld: why do people insist on seeing political humour where there isn’t any intended. people on this strip, in general, don’t comment on politics, just on the strip. you have a right to post here, but those of us who also do so have a right to ask you to refrain from remarks that are irrelevant to the strip and contrary to the enjoyment of others’ comments.
   i went to SOTU yesterday because i’d heard so much about the comments there, and wish i hadn’t wasted my time. i have never seen such ridiculous attacks on various folks without any regard to the strips themselves (which didn’t strike me as funny in the first place). i would hate to see the comments on the strips i read degenerate to that level.
   if you feel you must drag politics into this forum, let me join the chorus asking you to take them elsewhere.

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    maybeinthenextworld said, 3 months ago

    Yyyguy. Fair enough.

    But how do YOU (apologies if you are the cartoonist) know there wasn’t any intent?

    Maybe allegory is too challenging for some of you. That’s fine. Maybe it’s my imagination. That’s fine too.

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    Tigger said, 3 months ago

    Kids, No, you will make a Mint, the workers will be super thirsty, and you charge them everytime… No Free Refills.

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    hendelca said, 3 months ago

    I’d say you have to look really hard for any allegory here! This strip refers to an anytown, anywhere very real event that happens all too often.

    My sister-in-law’s business is suffering for exactly the same reason - street reconstruction. The funny part is that her reaction was just the same as the kids in the strip.

    And there is no stimulus package here in Canada!

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    Ji2m said, 3 months ago

    jmworacle,

    Where will innocence about government soon be shattered?

    The viewer brings as much to the interpretation of art as the artist. I happen to agree with maybeinthenextworld to an extent. If there’s no implicit message about the so-called stimulus package, I can definitely see where one can be inferred.

    yyyguy, bald, et al,

    In the United States we have freedom of speech, (for a little longer anyway), if you don’t like it you can stop reading it or comment back… :)

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    caddy.1957 said, 3 months ago

    I think the only reason people see politics in this is because politics is an inescapable fact of life these days….I may be over analyzing as I have in the past, but it just seems to me that previous admins never sparked the fervor this one has in so little time

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    hookedoncomics said, 3 months ago

    Funny bunch!

    Love the look on the kids faces when he says they’ll be there for a while. On one of our busiest streets in Tallahassee, FL, this happened, so they just did lots of sidewalk sales to keep the business booming.

    Cheer up kids!

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    krisl73 said, 3 months ago

    The kids might make mor e money selling to the workers.

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    humormehere said, 3 months ago

    My kids made tons of money selling to the workers at a housing development We bought cokes, seven ups and water and put them in a rolling cooler. Good business.