Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for April 25, 2014
April 24, 2014
May 01, 2014
Transcript:
Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling Lucky Ducky The Poor Little Duck Who's Rich In Luck in "STATE OF DENIAL" USA GVT. Driver: Federal funds for Hollingsworth Hound! Driver: Corporate tax breaks, payments, government contracts... Hound: Yes, yes... Driver: Okay, see you next month, Mr. Hound. Hound: Wait, what about THAT? Driver: That's federal MEDICAID MONEY for LUCKY DUCKY! Hound: EEP. Driver: He's too POOR for Obamacare, but not poor ENOUGH for Medicaid! Hound: ! Driver; The federal government said it will fill that gap! Hound: Not in MY state! Hound: Governor, REFUSE those federal medicaid funds for this state! Governor: Yessir! Hound: Grr...I only hope I'm in time! Lucky Ducky always finds a way to WIN! Driver: Here, this is for Lucky Ducky's health care! Lucky Ducky: COUGH COUGH Hound: STOP! Our state will not accept this money! Driver: But it doesn't cost your state anything, and he gets covered! Hound: He'd rather have his DIGNITY, sir! Doctor: Uh, guys... Doctor: You argued so long, Lucky Ducky went into cardiac arrest! Now we HAVE to admit him, to the emergency room! Lucky Ducky: Gotcha... Hound: LUCKY DUCKY! The End
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cgrantt57 Premium Member almost 10 years ago
Ahh yes…dignity before death.
Comics fan Premium Member almost 10 years ago
Lucky Ducky lives in Texas huh.
kapock almost 10 years ago
Now H.H. will have to launch a whole other lobbying campaign in Washington to get the Medicaid expansion money he got his state to refuse paid to himself instead. Gotcha!
Grover Premium Member almost 10 years ago
Ah yes, the magic of “free” federal money, that doesn’t cost anyone anything! Let’s buy Lucky a porsche while we’re at it.
rwpikul almost 10 years ago
When a program ends up saving more than it costs1, it really does end up not costing anyone anything.
1 To the tune of $40bn/year
kevin87031 almost 10 years ago
Lucky Ducky wins again because the USA has the best health care in the world!!! He’ll just lose his house is all.
androgenoide almost 10 years ago
Many of the states refusing the expansion are already accepting more federal money than they pay in taxes and that’s apparently all right.
I suppose it’s only the poor who need their dignity…
kaffekup almost 10 years ago
No, of course it’s not free. It’s fools like you who are already paying for it, but just too stupid to accept it. So it goes to other states who value a healthy populace. I’ d say thank you, but Georgia is too stupid too accept it, also.But what we do have is a legislature that tried to take that authority away from the governor, just in the unlikely case a Democrat beats him in November.