Michael Ramirez for November 08, 2011

And they all hire illegal aliens to do their grunt labor, yep, employ people indeed! Isn’t the “Wall Street executive” also known as a croupier today?

@trout:No doubt you have proof that they “all” hire illegal aliens.Your red herring doesn’t invalidate Ramirez’ point.

Wall Street Executives are different than doctors, the former gets a government bailout when they make an error, the later have to buy liability insurance.

Mike, I can agree with half your toon

Actually, the “doctor” inventing a drug is probably a chemist or PhD, and not an M.D., and Pfiser, or whoever he worked for, like well, Rumsfeld, probably raked in the dough from any “invention” he came up with. Which, anyone want a corporation to OWN YOUR DNA? They’re working on it, repeatedly, and your friends on “the right” in Congress are trying to accommodate them.

Show me the people hired by the Gamblers on Wall Street. I can show you the IRA’s destroyed by the Gamblers. Things would settle down if 30% Tax was collected at ‘sell’ time for all stocks held for less than 2 years. There should be NO Tax Breaks for Capital Gains and Dividends and Interest UNLESS you can show New Jobs were CREATED.

Yes, this is so on the spot. I like how it just glosses over how we are being led to believe that the heroes are Wall St bankers, and the true villains of America are teachers, firefighters, police officers, and gays.

But this strip makes more sense.

Wall Street Executives: Buy corporations. Outsource jobs. Fire workers to post inflated profits. Put bonuses in offshore tax-sheltered accounts. Pay less in taxes than they pay accountants to find loopholes.

The toon is right on the money – though the real life is even more grotesque:.A few years ago the US Senate held hearings about the plight of small farmers – the primary testimony was given by a couple of ACTRESSES that once portrayed small farmers . . . .

dear eryx pfizer spends 18+% of gross profit on r& d - abbot lab same and Merck 39+%- per yahoo finance

How is the Doctor a “villain”? and its all relative with the exec :)

Also there are sooo many words you could add to those two “famous people”.

Then why doesn’t your wife take the risk and invest some capital and open up her own firm so she can try to make what they make. Of course you would have nothing to whine about then.

wbr- compare the amount spent on R & D, and PR/advertising on TV etc. What’s disturbing, is the fact that some “good” drugs are falsely advertised. Some really BAD drugs are likewise advertised to get folks to “demand” them and create demand. And, that is for drugs more likely to kill you than the disease you’re treating!!!!!!!!!

And not one of them prepared to pay sufficient taxes to pay the country’s bills, so the country continues to fallow the path of Greece and Italy to unmanageable debt. (well hardly any of them)

The number one lie of the 1% “Investments Create Jobs”. Under current practices, Investments make the investor wealthy by creating as few jobs as possible.

Looks like Ramirez had to put someone likable next to that wall street executive to “prove” his point. Its the same thing Michael Eisener (former Disney CEO) did whenever he entered a room: Mickey and Minnie were always with him because everybody hated him.

I have sourced the Zero Tax numbers on Locher’s Titanic TOON on the 8th.Social Security is Saved.BO gets his Stimulus-2.Budget gets Balanced.

I was making a point as well, but I know there is no way you can grasp the concept that investing one’s money and taking risk of going on your own should make you more $ than the people employed at a firm. However many times more they make depends on a lot of factors such as how hard you work and how qualified the employees are.

They didn’t leave the security of employment at another firm to start this firm? They have no overhead, advertising, insurance, rent, etc? They don’t pay their employees and have any concern for their well being should business not do well?

Eryx, the profits at “big pharma” ARE pretty “gross”, especially thanks to Republicans banning negotiating drug prices for Medicare! Then add in the ability to con folks into “needing” drugs by advertising them, and well, the billions in profit, yes profit, not income, are gross indeed. It’s up there with oil company profits off oil taken from PUBLIC land they don’t have to pay any, or only marginal at most, royalties for in the U.S..

Michael Ramirez, despite your knowledge and past editorial awards, you do seem to present here a very simplistic view of America and Americans that not only misses the point but also fails to provide truth or insight into the real issue; an unjust, upside down tax system that does not provide local, State, and/or the Federal Government the means to provide needed services (NHC, Education, Modern Infrastructure, Security, and the personal to fully and properly operate and administer these services) too and for the citizens of America as we see being done by Governments, for their citizen’s, in most of the rest of Western Civilization. Further, neither group citied in your editorial is inherently evil (though un-regulated, un-monitored corporations might come close and sometimes are), as they are simply using current tax laws and policies that legally provides them with the ‘tools’ to not pay their fair share.As a side note: Mr. Ramirez you have very nicely accomplished your primary goal of using your media as a catalyst for thought, let’s hope it reaches the politicians.