Tom Toles for June 02, 2013

No. Obama is not fleeing scandals on good reports of the economy. He is driving purposefully according to plan while the GOP wants to run some new made up scandals past him.

I wish all people had been reading up on ecology since silent spring was published back in the,, 70’s or 80’s.

It’s hard to know why some people want to keep believing out water supply wont run out,don’t care if our rivers look like mud at best,And don’t care that we are falling so far behind, we need to get up to speed with Germany, France, and many others who are doing better for our earth.

Sorry, no basis in fact for this “toon.” The economy is actually horrible. From CBS for you libs:http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505123_162-57587033/wealth-of-most-americans-down-55-since-recession/

The only reason stocks are up, is because it takes more of our greatly devalued dollars to buy stocks. Ditto – gold silver or almost anything else. They are printing 45+ BILLION $$ every month out of thin air….

I do like the way Mr Toles draws though :O)

I hope he ran over the elephant’s toes too.

Good post Doughfoot. I found this true when I was active duty and see it yet today. Conservative enlisted received help in voting while Liberals were forgotten. Fraternazitation between officers and enlisted of course was and is forbidden, however ignored between male officers and female enlisted. I once called for the reduction of our overseas bases as the service man is one of the worst diplomats we can have in foreign nations. Some of the worst discrimination I have witnessed was between servicemen and and locals. “I AM AN AMERICAN. YOU ARE SH_T!”

Bwahahahaaha! Clearly this toon is a joke, because the economy sucks.

Ya the economy is GREAT!

Who are you kidding Toles?50 million people on food stamps, the highest % of able-bodied Americans in history not working, the highest “disabled” pecentage ever and the average household income decreasing every year. Sounds peachy!

Or do you liberals now only care about “The greedy fat cats” on Wall Street?

are you aware that when he started cash for clunkers ford chrysler and gm had no cars on the lot so to get the deal you had to buy toyotas. and the with all the used cars being junked the cost of used cars shot up

Can one of you lefties tell me that the economy is booming like your boy Toles thinks?

Only a rabid, valueless conservative could come up with a sarcastic comment like, “Ohh… save the earth. What a noble cause.”How about, “Humanity, give me a break.”Or, “Life, what a total waste of time.”Or, a personal favorite, “Why shouldn’t pure drinking water cost more than gasoline?”

Ansonia: As the Gates Foundation has proven around the world, providing netting has been cheaper, less destructive, and more effective at eliminating malaria than DDT. Also cleaning up breeding areas.

Intersting that Guinea worm and other diseases have been nearly eliminated in many areas by building latrines and clean water at relatively little cost through the efforts of Jimmie Carter and his group.

The DOW is up over 15,000, housing prices in many areas have risen by 10% and building starts are up as well as sales. Banks remain a bit of a roadblock because the have essentially “favored nation status” in the laws and regulations they got passed, but are lending again.

No, the “economy” isn’t recovering at the 8-10% the Republican pundits call for, but 3% is the actual historical average, and we are there.

Thanks for sharing the latest Rove Talking Points email. There seems to be a sudden desire to discredit Carson among right wingers. I can only assume that it’s just the latest move in the plan to discredit anyone who brings up environmental concerns when there is money to be made.“It is not my contention,” Carson wrote in Silent Spring, “that chemical insecticides must never be used. I do contend that we have put poisonous and biologically potent chemicals indiscriminately into the hands of persons largely or wholly ignorant of their potentials for harm. We have subjected enormous numbers of people to contact with these poisons, without their consent and often without their knowledge.”Wow, Carson sounds like a real tree-hugging wacko! Not.As far as the claim that Carson’s book stopped the use of DDT in Africa, making her responsible for millions of deaths… it’s nonsense. DDT continues to be used in the Third World. But DDT is not a magic bullet in malaria prevention. Because it was overused in controlling agricultural pests, mosquitos have become resistant to DDT. The reason nearly a million people die from malaria has more to do with lack of money for anti-malaria programs, poor overall health care (not to mention poor nutrition) and difficulty in accessing remote villages than any opinion on DDT.http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/rehabilitatingcarson/#.Uauhy2TSNpwDDT carries real health risks, including infant deaths due to premature birth. http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn1012-ddt-finally-linked-to-human-health-problems.html

The German and French people I know are oddly better off, on the whole than anyone I know in the US. They have better education, and are better employed, in general. Of course, Germany and France have kept their industries at home. Their people have better quality food, because the EU is better, so far, anyway, at keeping industry out of their regulatory processes.

Better food means better health, but they also have functional, universal health care. The result is not only a healthier (and more productive) workforce, but also a longer lived one.

US policies policies are penny wise and pound foolish.

The earth is not some sort of toy. It is the only planet we have, and our only source of sustenance. We are throwing it away, and for what? So a tiny percentage of the population can starve the rest of us into some sort of compliance?

It’s not the EU which is starving their population into poverty. That’s the province of the US and some other dictatorships. The fact that we still elect our governments doesn’t affect that. Our elected governments have been governing that way for decades, and most people seem blind to it.Time to swap the indoctrination machines for a real education system, don’t you think?

Where are the GOP jobs?

Just askin’

You.’ve heard of observation?

Some of us have been watching this circus for decades. We object to being told what to think, and we watch and remember.

That is part of the civic duty we are charged with: vigilance.You seem willing to believe what you are told, without regard for what you see around you.

Twice, if you consider consider the Patriot Act. The longer we ignore that, the harder it will be to recover.

I do not know just where you get your information from (perhaps from the likes of Rush Limbaugh), but once again you are almost totally incorrect. If you look at the latest quality of living factors you will indeed find where the US is doing quite well. We are rated #3 in the world after Norway and Australia. But then Germany is rated number 5 and France number 20. And all of these are rated in the highest grouping. And the EU itself is rated over all just as good as North America, and is indeed farther along in the area of what is referred to as a green economy.

Plus, being a green economy certainly does not mean being a low level economy at all. The US over all GDP is not at some $17 trillion, and the EU economy has an over all GDP of some $23 trillion. So the people of Europe (while currently suffering from some economic problems just as we in the US are) are certainly NOT living in poverty, especially relative to those human beings that are truly living in actual poverty in such areas as Africa. I really dislike it when people such as you use total exaggeration to try to get across your own particular ideological ideas!!<br

By the way, FYI here is just one place to look up the progress of general human development throughout the countries of the world:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Human_Development_Index

Well, sure, there are plenty of Fortune 500 hundred jobs out there!

sarcasm mode [OFF]

Even those who qualify for that kind of job have a hard time finding them. Most of our family wage jobs have been sent off shore.

It’s nice, though, to know that everyone isn’t trying to survive off three fast food jobs. That’s pretty much all we have down here at ground level.

The problem doesn’t lie with the economic systems, nor with the governments. The problem lies in greed. Eventually, greed works its way to the top and ruins everything for everybody else.

I’m pretty sure that’s what the old adage ‘power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely’. We know this, but we refuse to address it.

This country started out with reasonable, if idealistic goals. It was set up with checks and balances – the FFs weren’t naive about power, they were power brokers themselves and they did have some glimmer of an idea of what they were up against.

But greed has corrupted our leaders, and they have made bad compromises, if you consider that their job is to make compromises that benefit the country as a whole. They have slipped into believing that their power entitles them to a little greed, and they have become drunk on the proceeds.

We need reform of the nomination procedures.

We need to raze the ‘education system’, so called, and build a real one.

We need to end NPOs and lobbying.

We need to commit to cleaning up the environment and keeping it clean.

If we do those things, we can probably turn it around.

@mikefive

Which is still better than we have here – unless France is playing the same kind of numbers game our government is. We have had double digit unemployment for decades, but since we don’t actually count everybody who would work if they could find paid work, we need to sit down and shut up on that score.

And they aren’t balancing their budgets on the backs of the poor.

Unpaid, volunteer positions are absolutely no use to those who can’t cover their overheads. We do have plenty of those ‘opportunities’.