Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for November 12, 2011

What a brilliant idea. Busineess should boon

Ugh. Too greasy.

Should sell like hotdogs at gametime..

It’s all in the marketing. He will do bigger business if he goes by Occupy Wall Street.

No! No! It’s supposed to be “bangers” and mash! Bangers! “g”, not “k”! Stupid Yanks never get anything right. Now, where’s the mash?

seems like a modest proposal

Eat the Rich: there’s only onething that they’re good for,Eat the Rich: take one bite now… come back for more,Eat the Rich: I gotta get this off my chest,Eat the Rich: take one bitenow, spit out the rest…

“Soylent Green — it’s PEOPLE!”

Propaganda? Hogwash. The bankers, the corporations have measurably concentrated the wealth in this country over the last 25 years, effectively destroying the working class and crippling the middle class. THAT’s the real crime.

What so few seem to realize as they rail against the financial community… in 1984, the IRA came into being… anyone who began to save for future retirement in an IRA became an investor. By sheltering a little money from immediate taxation and puting it into mutual funds or something similar, we ALL became part of the investment bankers’ clients. Maybe not directly, but how many folks just put a small percentage of their pay into an account, possibly with the promise of “matching funds” from their employer, and watched it grow incrementally over the last 25 years?.As Pogo once stated: “We have met the enemy and he is us!”

Casual cannibalism. Oh joy.

A 53%er working on becoming a 1%er

And then they trash the hot dog cart.

Oak Ridge Boy61 – -Re: Your answer yesterday.I like Oak Ridge. You live in a beautiful environment. I think the Norris Dam on the Clinch River was the first dam built by TVA … started in1933 and finished in 1936. The Melton Hill Dam also located on the Clinch River, several miles south of Norris, was finished in 1963. Watts Bar Dam, on the Tennessee River, was started in 1939 and finished in1942. - My father started work on Watts Bar Dam in 1939 … when it was finished in 1942 he was hired by the government to help build Oak Ridge … I think that was in 1943.-There was actually two family farms … one located in Anderson County and the other located across the Clinch River in Hardin Valley (Knox County) . The one that was flooded was the old Taylor farm in Anderson County … it encompassed 400 acres. The 100 acres in Hardin Valley farm encompassed 100 acres (George Washington gave the land as a Revolutionary War grant to Col. Hardin, who married a Gallaher.)My family decended from the Gallaher, Taylor, Christen and Hardin families.

Can I have a side order of politician?

You wish! Bankers/Wall Street Robber Barons/Energy companies destroyed the world’s economy for their own greedy purposes, while at the same time purchasing the best congress money could buy. It is NOT hooliganism for the 99% to stand up and resist this silent coup d’etat. It is REAL democracy…something you wouldn’t know anything about.

Thank you, Dogsniff and masterskrain, for the on-target quotes from two of the greatest citizen-statesmen this country has ever produced. And both of them icons of the Republican party (who might well weep at what has become of it).

When all are poor there will less satisfaction and envy will reign supreme.

Dogsniff: I tho’t you cut the long discussions off at the ankles, but then I clicked “Load the rest of the comments” and….

If they buy, they ARE participating in capitalism! They buy every day just like the rest of us…..now if they went on a hunger strike, they might be a bit more genuine.

I have no problem with people like Bill Gates getting rich (well, OK, I have some problems with some of his company’s software, but that’s another rant). Gates (and Jobs, and the folks at GM, Chrysler, etc.) made money the old fashioned way: by making stuff that had value, and in so doing increasing the total wealth of the nation. No problem with their keeping some of that wealth..But the self-proclaimed “Masters of the Universe” don’t actually make anything; they simply play games (games essentially equivalent to blackjack, poker, and other casino games) with numbers representing the wealth created by the people who actually make stuff that has value. And they have rigged the game so that they are the House, gambling with other people’s money and taking their cut whether the bet wins or loses..Bankers—particularly those investment bankers at big firms like GoldSacks—are like hookworms: they are parasites. At their best, they can deliver something useful in return for the blood they suck (science is showing that a few hookworms can be useful against auto-immune diseases), but too many of them just bleed you dry..Eating a few of them may not be the best way to reduce the number of these parasites (they’re likely to be fatty and full of hazardous chemicals), but it’s certainly one way…

Change the name to Grilled Bangers and he’d be spot on!

I’d go for grilled politician… They can cause more damage…

If you think greed is restricted to the GOP then you are either completely ignorant or a fool. No one party put this country where it is.As I like to put it, politicians are like diapers, they need to be changed often and for the same reason.

What is life on this planet coming to?

Of course, what is being missed here is that the only thing the vendor did was change the name of the product and not the ingredients. It is not cannibalism at all, but placebo revenge by proxy. The irony of this is that traditional hotdogs hark back to the days of Sinclair Lewis’ “The Jungle” about the meatpacking corporations and their abuses.

And on a different note, while I enjoy a good populist manifesto as much as anyone, can we get back to the further adventures of the Pyle family. I just know that Danae is working on some plot to get control of the world. And Sister Kate is figuring out some way to stop Danae before their dad gets involved.

I swear, Wiley is going further looney left every day. Now he is talking about cannibalism! Crazy…

Go look @ Brewster Rockit for how political comedy should be done.

It’s coming, isn’t it? maybe the one thing that would re-elect Obama would be a PROMISE to prosecute the financial criminals and the traitorous subversion machine the wrongwingers have built and operated this last forty years…

Don’t forget the part where they refuse to pay. Then smash the hot dog cart and pizz and sh*t all over it. (Occupy San Diego)

I’m also proud to be a liberal Democrat … and I have voted that ticket my whole life. However, over the years years I have observed that most elected politicians … Democrats and Republicans and Independents … care more about their reelection that they do the American people.

Ugh! I wouldn’t eat bankers. Too much fat!

It seems the line has been erased in the last century.

I knew they were a bunch of wieners.

Cheese Burghers is good. Lettuce and tomatoes.

I agree that the US public tend to vote in whoever had the most $$ to throw into TV ads etc, instead of reading anything about their views and those of the others. When RP entered the race I thought Texan, law and order etc-then I delved into his views and I’m sticking with Romney for the present. Even our local Mayoral race did not go to my choice, but I will only be around one or two more decades (my kids and grandkids will have to try to sort it out).

The “bankers” are not entirely the rich people I worry about… True, the evil thread of greed runs threw everyone to a small and large degree (so does every other vice), depending on a person’s environment, temperament, upbringing, etc…I think we covered this on yesterday’s post, about the ones pillaging and plundering other country’s resources, taking over the little people, setting up their own puppet governments, forcing them into extreme poverty, those are the corporations we worry about more… (psst, Confessions of an Economic Hitman is good reading… Fair Trade… Anybody Listening?: Queensryche: “Is their anybody listening? Is their anyone who sees what’s going on?… What’s behind the words? Images they know will please us… Think for yourselves… and, feel the walls, come tumbling down…”)

@TheLyingMechanic The US DOES have the second highest corporate tax rate in the world, just barely behind Japan at 0.3%. Last year, Japan was even talking about cutting their corporate tax rate, which would leave us with the highest. This IS why jobs are leaving the US.

A nonpartisan solution is FairTax. FairTax would bring these jobs back to America. Everyone would have to pay, but American exports would instantly cost 23% less worldwide.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2011/09/09/a-cross-country-comparison-of-corporate-income-taxes/

Has it occurred to anyone that there is a nervous edge to the plethora of zombie movies recently. Its rich people anxiety over their possible future "on the food chain "metaphorically speaking, of course.

Would that those in Washington today embraced those same sentiments. If they had embraced that idea and ideal it would be a fifferent world today.

Am I alone in remembering when a CD paid 10% and more for the bank to have the use of your money for a fixed term? When a savings account paid a few percent interest? When personal loans and credit cards charged a flat rate around 5 to 7 % APR? When the tradeoff for having a checking account was that it didn’t pay interest, but there were no fees? If it worked then (and it did), what changed to tip the balance to where it is now- 1% or far less paid on savings and CD’s, 25% or more charged on credit card balances, and fees out the bazonga on checking? If not corporate greed, then what? If not price-gouging, then why? I don’t begrudge the bank (or credit card or oil company) making a profit. I do begrudge blatant legal profiteering. That’s how we got to where we are today.

Slight problem with that business plan – the OWS crowd doesn’t pay for stuff.