Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for October 17, 2013

Three, two, one…

Demand and Supply, sorry Wiley, I’m so stealing that..

Perhaps some people in our National Government should read the constitution. It is after all the document that gave them their jobs… They should know what is expected of them and if the words are too big for them to define, they should find out what those words really mean instead of making up convenient meanings that suit their own philosophy.

Nice business ya got there, Be shame sumpin happen to it….

You know…… I don’t particularly care about those who want to bring politics to the comics forum….But in this case, I agree with the sentiment about our problem children and it was the first thing I thought of when I first saw the comic. I wonder….if spanking them would help?

Hah, Yeah, I know. I get like that sometimes… just deal with it.

Note to all: My apologies.

Hah! It only took until two!

“Baby Ruth” – I didn’t know that!

I find it interesting that so many people seem to view this cartoon as a comment on our recent Washington Follies, when to me it just seemed like a standard two-bit Mob extortionist, with his economic theory that “it’s just Demand and Supply: I Demand, and you Supply.” No mention of congress or the executive branch at all.

I wonder if he was forcing clients to buy ’insurance"?

Gee, already, a ‘tea party’ guy decides to create his own view of reality? Good decision judge!

Yes, but you’re free…

I have to wonder about any political group that takes its name from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. How is a raven like a writing desk, anyway?

Suddenly I want to go swimming and have a Babe Ruth bar at the same time

Only Congressmen, the IRS, and corporate CEO’s may employ that particular economic strategy. All others go directly to jail to limit competition…

Wiley, your best. Now can we see Danae an company please.

where in the strip is there a Tootsie Roll……don’t get it!!

Who is David Boehner? John Boehner is Speaker of the House.

Someone needs to read this to Ted Cruz.

Is the defendant a mobster or medical insurer? Or is there even a difference at this point?

So the political part was an unintended? but it fit in so very well with current events!…..interesting.

The first cartoons started out as political / social commentary hundreds of years ago. So politics is a viable subject for comment for a lot of comics… even if it is only secondarily alluded to in the comic.

Oh please! If you want a country with no functioning government, try Somalia. If that’s what you want, go there! Our taxes are low both compared to other countries and to what we paid in past decades. You have no legitimate complaint.

Sounds more like “Big Oil”. They demand high prices and tax breaks because they control the supply.

I see that my earlier comments, about political posters leaving “floating Tootsie Rolls” in the metaphorical pool, have been removed, presumably by the political posters flagging those comments. Keep in mind that Wiley (the author) did not intend a political statement, and ask yourself why you’re so cranky about being called on gratuitous political posturing.