Tom Toles for February 18, 2013

According to Bonehead, we can’t afford any of this stuff because America is broke. But do continue to vote Republican!

All failed policies and you want to buy them?

the vested interests screwed you again

masterskrain: We could start by using the real Second Amendment and save enough money to pay off the debt. The Second wasn’t to arm thugs, drug merchants, and psychopaths, but to ensure domestic tranquility and provide for the common defense without such European measures as a large standing army, mercenaries, and conscription – what we have now (conscription is only on paper, but if jobs improve enough that the jobless poor no longer have to “volunteer” in order to feed their families, it can be reinstated instantly).

I guess the question that always comes to my mind is why we think the government should provide all these ‘services’. The government is the least cost effective, inefficient group you could want to manage anything, yet we continually divert money away from the private sector to fund government. I suppose it almost always comes down to an issue of believing in large government vs small. It’s a never ending argument until we run out of money to fund government or can’t borrow more…

Just add death and destruction to every program and Americans will love them. I’ve never seen American’s opposed to going to war, regardless of the cost. Just don’t spend anything on social programs. Sure, after a few years and a rising body count we get tired of it, wait a year or two, and go to war somewere else. I’m sure all you folks think killing people dosen’t cost anything.

We had four years of Obama.We heard everything he had to say, we saw the things he brought into law.We heard the things he wanted to do in his second term.We learned everything we needed to know about the man and his policies. We gave him a landslide re-election victory. Get over it, GOP. The majority of Americans want Obama as president, we want, by and large, the things he wants for the country.

interesting how one tearful moment has marked Boehner forever after….

San Francisco: America’s highest minimum wage, below-average unemployment.-However, I fail to see how giving workers a little bit more in their paychecks could possibly stimulate the economy…

Empty pockets. Empty head. Empty ideas. Republicans.

Dave Chappelle said Obama was going to be blamed for everything. (Don’t know if this is ’shopped)

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HA! Like Barry would have Jobs on his table….

“…We gave him a landslide re-election victory…” It is time you sobered up from the kool-aid. 51+% is NOT a landslide. Carter’s defeat was a landslide.

OK. I am going to trot out my unicorn: Give D what they want and R also. Eliminate contention. Prioritize Items in the National Budget. Pay for them each month until Revenue is all spent. Establish 2 Foundations (D&R). They adopt their choice of remaining Budget Items. People voluntarily contribute as much as they like to one of the Foundations. D pay for their favorite programs and R pay for their priority programs. As LBJ used to say: ‘We can have both Guns and Butter’.

Boener never sees anything he likes. But at least he can See the other side. McConnell and Cantor and Paul Ryan can’t see the backs of their hands.

“… Why are there two different systems of payment for services rendered?..” CEOs have their benefits established by the Board of Directors. Then, that CEO sits on other Board of Directors and approves high benefits for his buddies. This is College Fraternity and Old Boys Club concepts.