Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for May 10, 2013

This is one the best Arcs I have seen on Non Sequiter. Bravo, Wiley, Bravo!(thunderous applause)

Is this the first time we’ve heard the name of the town they live in?No doubt named for the local tribe of Whatchacallit Indians.

Just wait till they find out who’s behind it.

Oh if only it could really come to pass… I’ll shut up now.

Odd to see this arc here, where the artist is so clearly fond of huge, intrusive government. If people would simply leave each other alone, to thrive or fail living according to their own actions, then yes indeed, we would have a much better and more peaceful country. A crucial step would be a Federal government stopped trying to end-run the limitations placed on it by the Constitution, and refused to redistribute money to promote any agenda.

solar, big government for a big country…nothing wrong with that…I don’t mind paying taxes…I love my country, the difference between us is that I’m willing to put my money where my mouth is….You are not…

Right on, Radish. Solarrhino, take a hike, shut up and mind your own business……and take Varnes with you.

insert applause here.

Oh great, now they’re going to make Danae the queen of the world.

@ Varnes… Well said!

SUAMYOSB!

Catchy retort for trolls.

This would be perfect. All the news media would be compelled to go silent. Ah, bliss.

the “shut up” movement made things worse for those cleveland girls.

All right! Danae has reached Maine-stream America.

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I wish our esteemed Maine governor would shut up and stop minding our business.

face hole?

The news networks can’t shut up, they’ve got 24 hours to fill. Remember when TV news was just a half hour, two or three times a day? Of course, we had newspapers, that we could pick up and put down whenever we wanted.

This is almost as good as the hoolahoop line!

mmmmmmm

@mythreesons, yup that’s exactly the country I want. It’s called “freedom” and “personal responsibility” and “small government” All those things the right wing is always spouting that really mean, to them, “do it my way.”

The Whatchamacallits had a smaller group that were always lost called the Fugarwes. No one ever saw them, but they were proud. You could hear them at night, yelling We’re the Fugarwes!

My husband is from Maine and most of his family still live there. We both find this hysterical because anyone who knows Maine knows that Danae’s movement is indeed neah and deah to those Yankee hahts.

Economist James Rolph Edwards, Journal of Libertarian Studies, Vol. 21, Number 2 (Summer 2007):

On pages one and two, Edwards cites two studies, over a seven-year period, backing up his figures. He writes:“[Government] income redistribution agencies are estimated to absorb about two-thirds of each dollar budgeted to them in overhead costs, and in some cases as much as three-quarters of each dollar. Using government data, Robert L. Woodson (1989, p. 63) calculated that, on average, 70 cents of each dollar budgeted for government assistance goes not to the poor, but to the members of the welfare bureaucracy and others serving the poor. Michael Tanner (1996, p. 136 n. 18) cites regional studies supporting this 70/30 split.

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“In contrast, administrative and other operating costs in private charities absorb, on average, only one-third or less of each dollar donated, leaving the other two-thirds (or more) to be delivered to recipients. Charity Navigator, the newest of several private sector organizations that rate charities by various criteria and supply that information to the public on their web sites, found that, as of 2004, 70 percent of charities they rated spent at least 75 percent of their budgets on the programs and services they exist to provide, and 90 percent spent at least 65 percent. The median administrative expense among all charities in their sample was only 10.3 percent.”

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IIRC, the best private charities do better than that, of course. Some give well over 90% to the needy. (Catholic Relief Services is at 94%, Feeding America is 97%, Food for the Poor, 96%) Others not so good (United Way at 85%, Salvation Army 82%) And then there’s the George Bush Foundation, at 30%, close to government standards . . .

Nice one Mr Miller. You made this a great week!

I wonder who spoke those golden words.

Whatchacallit is next to the twin towns “Thingamabob & Thingamagig.” lol