"Chip" Bok has been the staff editorial cartoonist for the Akron Beacon Journal since 1987. Through Creators Syndicate, his cartoons appear in over 100 publications, including the Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Time, and Newsweek. He is also a regular contributing cartoonist for Reason magazine and serves as a member of the steering committee for The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press in Arlington, Virginia.
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Ketira shena Pretarasedrin
said, 10 months ago
Why does Bok think that Obama is the “bane of Capitalism”?
lookinside said, 10 months ago
He apparently watches Faux Noise.
DrCanuck said, 10 months ago
Good thing only Obama benefits from all that money in politics or America would be in real trouble.
braindead08 said, 10 months ago
Recent Republicans’ performance is a good preview of how they intend to ‘govern’ if they take power.
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Ryan/Romney budgets turn Medicare into a voucher system.
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Continuation of the Bush tax cuts, but with even more breaks for the ‘job creators’
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Repeal of the ACA. Per Mitch McConnell, the American health care system is the greatest in the world.
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Voting is a privilege, not a right, and stricter requirements will be imposed.
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All abortion will be illegal.
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Birth control will be suppressed.
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Businesses who hire illegals will continue to be rewarded.
disgustedtaxpayer said, 10 months ago
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disgustedtaxpayer said, 3 minutes ago
Bain Capital is an 80% average SUCCESS STORY, of legal business practices.
Obama IS the “bane of capitalism”—-proven by 3 years of policies and “Executive Orders” by this egotistic “King”—-killing entire industries by design…coal, fossil fuels, etc. Obamacare burdens business and stifles business expansion.
Obama is also the “bane of the US Constitution”….riding roughshod over its constraints of government, and abusing a president’s authority by EO’s re-writing LAWS….which is the job of Congress, not the president. Obama’s DOJ and AG are not upholding either the constitution or our LAWS, on immigration and energy and states’ rights. Obama’s attitude is now even polluting our USSCourt.
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P.S. plus Bok’s point of exceeding 3 years each of over $1 trillion DEBT addition by overspending annual deficits!
dtroutma
said, 10 months ago
Obama’s had the lowest growth in government spending since Truman. Business has had the highest profits in many decades. Stock market still flirts close to 13,000, gas prices are now down, IN SUMMER (oil leases on federal lands are UP on issuance, it’s the companies that have slowed drilling, by THEIR choice!). We’re “pulled out” of Iraq, and pulling out of Afghanistan, Al Qaeda activities, and population-down. However, Pentagon DOES have plans to bomb Iran 2013 or early 2014, NOT good.
Now Bane and others HAVE still made huge profits from the jobs shipped overseas BEFORE Obama took office. Also deportation of “illegals” is WAY up compared to “Bush era”, so more jobs CAN be “taken” by U.S. citizens, but those companies that “create jobs” are NOT doing the “right thing”, while doing the “right thing”- complaining, not working to solve problems!
braindead08 said, 10 months ago
Romney is really, really, really, really, proud of being successful and making lots and lots of money at Bain Capital.
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And, he wasn’t there.
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If you criticize what Bain didunder Romney, well you are just being unfair.
If you claim that Romney was at Bain, you are just a liar.
sw10mm said, 10 months ago
@lookinside
Yep, just look at how good a job he’s doing with this capitalism thing. Let’s get more people on foodstamps so the government can support them.
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/townhall.comstaff/2012/07/14/usda_using_spanish_soap_operas_to_promote_food_stamps
Come on guys, read a little bit before you show your ignorance.
DrCanuck said, 10 months ago
@sw10mm
^ sw10mm said, “Let’s get more people on foodstamps so the government can support them.”
’Tis a very strange country where people criticize someone for feeding the hungry. I suppose you would condemn a man for clothing the naked and comforting the oppressed as well?
babka
said, 10 months ago
Bain-ality of evil.
DrCanuck said, 10 months ago
@ScottPM
^ “He” does nothing of the sort. Your country feeds its starving with the country’s money.
Have you NO sense of community? Are you INCAPABLE of taking care of your own? Have you NO pride in being American?
1opinion said, 10 months ago
@sw10mm
If you are going to post links to nowhere and claim others are not reading facts, you are the fool.
DrCanuck said, 10 months ago
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^ “…you sweep the poor into some dark corner…”
No, I’m in that dark corner with them, working with them to develop skills to get them up and out.
They, too, are Canadians. We take care of our own.
Jeff Kiser
said, 10 months ago
Doubtful that you really know what helps the poor. Bane has probably given more jobs to those in poverty than you or your organization, whatever that may be. Canada is a wonderful nation despite some of the people who would gladly create a permanent needy class. Go to most Canadians and ask them if it is better to help provide a job for the poor or just money, and I bet they will tell you that throwing money at the problem doesn’t help. I work in the inner city and know better than you as to what works best. Provide people with money, and that is what they will learn, to expect money. Provide them with a means for employment, and they will learn to appreciate making their own way.
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Welfare in the traditional American sense of simply giving money doesn’t work. In California we have that policy, so with 11 percent of the population, we have 35 percent of the welfare recipients, and its growing.
disgustedtaxpayer said, 10 months ago
public welfare and federal food stamps (rules now allow for tattoos and other “non-food” spending) create DEPENDENCY on the takers. The 1996 welfare reform, requiring work by recipients, encouraged many who were raised by single mothers to get education and training and REAL JOBS..(aid to mothers encouraged fathers to live and provide for themselves elsewhere and dicouraged marriage).
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A citizen dependent on others for food, shelter, and other needs becomes a SLAVE TO THE GOVERNMENT and no doubt a sure VOTE to elect the Promise-ers and Providers in government. It is an anti-self-dignity trap to benefit socialist Democrats with elected offices, power and access to money for themselves. Welfare recipients are cheated of earned self-esteem in seeking work for pay and opportunities for advancemen, and a good pride for being independent of Daddy Government’s spider-web.