Pat Oliphant for July 08, 2010

The only thing that trickles down from the GOP Trickle-Down policy is poverty.

Our biggest problem right now is the economy, because if we don’t fix the economy and stop the recession then everything else (especially the National Debt) will just get worse.

If a Republican were in office right now the Conservatives would be screaming at him to spend more money!

Well, maybe I’m wrong on that - the money would be going to help the middle class, and Conservatives only care about helping the rich.

This is too close to the truth.

I think Ken Warren is wrong. Money NEVER goes to the MIDDLE class, only the wealthy and rich. Even those in poverty get short-changed.

^^^^ “too close to the truth”

what are we going to DO about it ?

now, don’t you all start ARGUING at once because it’s not going to help the situation.

can’t people see that it’s time to get it TOGETHER before we lose ourselves ?

^ Whattya mean–BS? Brain Storm?

Speaking of brains, where is senorbullwinkle?

hmmm. b2jordens can’t be flagged, some else please try.

Typical of lassiez-faire economics.

jaxaction, I flagged the jerk.

The rich prey upon the ignorant.

So does the GOP and it works.

Show a Conservative the truth and they tell you to get back under your rock.

Hard to have a dialog with one side justs stands there shouting you down.

Hmmm, toon makes me think of Apalachia, and the lower Colorado river area.

TROUT - Makes me think of 2013 if the GOP gets back into power.

Grapes of Republican de-regulation wrath. Point it at the people who caused this problem to fill the pockets of the mega-rich. Giving tax dollars taken from the Middle Class to the wealthy few heats up the stock market until it explodes and cooks everyone’s goose. Giving tax dollars to the unemployed causes them to buy food, shelter and other necessities from Middle Class businesses who must hire more people from the ranks of the unemployed to fill these orders. The economy grows. But the Republicans don’t want that so they filibuster.

^^ DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN

HOW - It’s hard to accept the view of the world from someone who does not believe Bush & the GOP are responisble for this Recessions, someone who still believes that the GOP is for small government after they have increased the size of the government every year they have been in power for the past 30 years, someone who thinks Obama is a Socalist, and someone who still thinks the Iraq war was about how Iraq supported terrorist, and helped cause 9/11.

Paul Volcker in an interview in the NY Times today said financial deregulation began under Carter and finished under Greenspan and Clinton with the repeal of Glass-Steagall.

I don’t need any statistics showing what I want them to But do the rich pay most of the taxes? Do the rich invest the most in America? Do the rich use social program money?

WAIT! Are you smarter than a fifth grader?

Do you pay more tax than the rich? How many building roads,companies, inventions have you invested in? Do you or your family benefit from the government?

Bonus Question! If the rich put their money in a sock, would you be working, would you have a mortgage, would your children be educated?

Last question Why do people work?

Aww! Well better luck next time.

^These days, the rich invest most in China and India.

@Radish I heard about Clinton’s Greenspan moment too. Quite shocking and refreshing (though a little late) that he would come out and say years later that his right wing economic policies were wrong.

Haiti is an example of his free trade policies when he got them to stop growing their own rice and buy cheap rice from the U.S.

Another reminder to the trolls above. You should be posting at today’s Argyle Sweater strip, not here.

Yes, I remember Clinton. I worked for him. He still owes me money. He could have been a great president but for his pants problem and the fact that he was too much like a Republican.

In the years before the French Revolution, the country was clearly divided into people with obscene amounts of wealth, and the many with next to nothing. And look what resulted! There’s no doubt that America’s jobs have been exported to Asia. Even Andy Grove (think Intel) is alarmed about it and urging the government to adopt a job retrieval program now. I’d like to think that if the Dems hold on through the mid-term elections they will come up with a real jobs program - but politicians of all stripes seem to define that as jobs for their relatives, contributors and mistresses. Nations have imploded for less.