Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for July 04, 2012

Might as well export the dream along with the jobs.HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY!!!

To all the commentators on either side of the strip, I wish you all a very happy and safe Fourth of July. Independence didn’t come cheap but it can be lost by cheap thinking.

Happy Fourth! We still have Doonesbury- The Great American Comic Strip to be thankful for.

Enjoy your day’s Holiday, but please don’t feed the trolls.

With a lttle editing, there might be a commercial for Mitt in there somewhere!

Most of the founding fathers were Masons (History channelshow) what about now?

I know comics strips are fiction, but it’d be nice if they weren’t libelous:

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/304473/factcheck-no-evidence-romney-outsourcing-allegations-patrick-brennan

The Founding Fathers believed in high tariffs on imported goods.

I mentioned a couple of days ago that “Mallard Fillmore” is occasionally funny. Today’s is a hilarious commentary on the state of literature in 21st Century America. Recommended to all who are literate.

Stop it with the politics, Honey. How’s your sex life?

Tears are coming to me eyes….thank you Mitt.

but as more chinese rise to middle class and above they are purchasing more luxury items from us.

Over on this side of the pond, we’re just SO GLAD you won that victory you are celebrating today, otherwise we would be the Atlantic island state to balance Hawaii in the Pacific…

Have a great holiday.

It’s the 4th of July. Please be cautious with fireworks.

“Government spending as a share of the economy has increased 4% during the Obama administration. Much of that increase has come from mandatory spending, including Medicare, Social Security and Medicaid. Those programs have expanded mostly because of the recession as well as the growth in people hitting retirement age.”“The number of federal employees grew by 123,000, or 6.2%, under President Obama, according to the White House’s Office of Management and Budget.”“Most of the hiring increases came in the departments of homeland security, justice, veterans and defense.”

70% of the U.S. federal budget goes to Medicare/Medicaid (30%), Social Security (20%) and Defense (20%).

d more people are better of, in total, than before.Here’s the deal: there are upsides and downsides to every action. Okay, let’s assume Romney DID outsource or offshore or…send American employment to China, for profit.

Well, then, what if he DID make a Chines or two happier, gave them enjoyment of a middle-class lifestyle…remember?

Our fathers were a little better off in 1850 than Chines in 1950, and many of us are better off than were our grandfathers in the 30’s and 40’s.

If I were a Christian of the type I used to aspire to, I’d probably be glad more people were better off than before, although I’d be suspicious of any changes in human society, because I believed then that it had to get worse. So I’m left with being glad more people, in total, are better off. I admit many Americans and others are worse off than they were in the recent past…are any of us back to the Depression, yet? And yet, many of our fellow humans shared in what had been our good fortune.

We just need to make the pie bigger, it seems to me. And maybe, being a once-attempting potential Christian, just maybe I see how Mitt might think he was doing God’s work. That would put him and his whole church so far ahead of those “Prosperity Preachers” in Protestant sectsas a rocket is to a childhood sled.

I get it now. Wasn’t AMWAY Mormon?

Shark: the founding fathers were Free Masons and slave owners as stated above whereas our current leaders are slaves to their moneyed owners.

And if you don’t like gov. regulations go drink the water straight from the Rio Grande where the factories in Mexico dump their unregulated waste and have upped the birth defects in the area hugely.

Or pay 50% daily on borrowed cash to a loan shark.

Shouldn’t Honey be sporting a touch of gray by now?

Thousands, Honey? Probably more like millions. Too bad he’s never done, or will do, anything for more than a handful of Americans.

Well, there you are! Mitt said he would create thousands of jobs! And here is proof positive! Better hurry and make him president before it’s too late!

Lol… like most rightwing americans you’re as ignorant as the rest. Guess there is no hope eh?

We should be pursuing a perfect market, not a free market. If I own the property next to you, in a completely free market I’d be able to, say, raise pigs on it, and if dumping their waste on your property helped my bottom line, that’d be OK. Obviously, that’s not OK. But corporations, which are legally obligated to focus on the bottom line at the exception of all else, will fight tooth and nail for their “right” to pass their expenses off to others in the form of unregulated pollution. Market economics can solve this problem, but only if it’s a “perfect” market – perfect information so that consumers can make informed choices, prohibitions on particularly egregious externalities, and mitigation for lesser ones. The corporations won’t regulate themselves, and without the government playing a role, we’ll go back to the days of acid rain and rivers that are so polluted that they catch on fire. The free market ain’t free.

Well, what do you extortionists expect, you make it as difficult and expensive as you possibly can for American businesses to hire American workers, then you dare to complain when those businesses outsource as many jobs as they possibly can? Get a clue: When you wage war on business, you are waging war on jobs. But you really believe that you can create jobs and prosperity by using threats of violence to compel people to work against their own self-interest, by forcing them to work for their own destruction. Modern American “liberals” are nothing more than a pack of ignorant, looting savages.

Huh? This statement makes no sense at all.

Bergeron-The US government allows very generous write offs of new equipment, credits for hiring and other things, full deduction of R&D costs, and many other great incentives. In fact about 85% of all corporations pay no corporate tax. Reason is the tax is based on what is in your bank account Dec 31 of the year. Almost every corporation can move money around and keep it out of the account on Dec 31.The main reason jobs outsource is Greed of the American businessman. He wants more than he’s getting no matter how much he makes.If he has to do away with your job to make more profits then he will do it and not think twice about it.Now all those profits from overseas have to be brought back and taxed, but then they don’t want that either so leave it overseas and wait for an amnesty tax holiday – home free.The good old American way- screw whoever you need to make all the money you can.

Hey! Guard SGT, save the politics for some other day and time, for Pete’s sake. If the Tea Party isn’t as “dependent” on the largess of the Federal Government as the rest of us, I suggest that they stop accepting roads, clean water, (somewhat) clean air, and military protection, among other things. The way I see it, the T.P. just wants programs they favor to be enacted, and not those that others wish to have. Retired Army Noncom.

waiting man: I too concur it was a VERY rare “hit” for Mallard.

guard REMF: I’ve been to a number of TEA party rallies, and find the Mallard Fillmore typical ignorance highly prevalent, along with a bunch of “bible thumpers” who constantly mis-read the 1st and 2nd Amendments.

Yeah, let’s all go Chinese, where pollution (and cancer) runs rampant, and where (young) people are worked to the bone in sweatshops. In fact, I think all right wingers should move there, since it’s a lot like what they want for this country.

Ahh yes, the great liberal American dream … Everyone can be paid well and still turn out dirt cheap consumer commodities.

Wake up! Jobs are outsourced because no one in the US is willing to do the work for the amount of pay that is required to produce the junk at the cost people are willing to pay for it.

Corporate taxes in the US are pretty low right now compared to historic levels – that’s why so many companies are sitting on billions of dollars and not hiring people. So many people pay more in federal income taxes than General Electric did last year.

The people and the judges determine what a “natural born citizen” is, as in the case of John McCain who was actually born in Panama. Just as, under the Constitution, the Supreme Court determines what is constitutional. But, of course, you reject the President and the Supreme Court, you reject the choice of the people, and you reject our present system of government. Spit on the flag all you want, Sarge, for that’s what you’re doing. At least you live in a free country where you can spit on it, as you do every day in your comments.

divide and conquer, institutionalized. right & left battle the New Uncivil War and to the Victor 1% go the spoils, and the new enslavement/indoctrination of what passes for “we, the People” – who are ongoingly charged to be “a more perfect Union.”