Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for July 18, 2010
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July 19, 2010
Transcript:
Phone: Brrr! Brrr! Honey: *Gasp* It's him! Should I answer? No way! And yet I must! Duke: Honey! Good Lord, you're hard to track down, woman! Don't you ever check your voice mail? Honey: What do you want, sir? Duke: What makes you think I want something? Okay, I do. Remember back when you were handling spin for Chairman Mao... and you had to explain away the millions of Chinese peasants who died on your boss's watch? Well, you had this great, totally opaque parable you'd use to deflect questions. Do you recall how it went? Honey: You're working for BP, aren't you? Duke: Something to do with eggs, or swallows. Help me out here...
My only post on this will be to say that it seems funny to me that the very thing President Obama is doing to the economy is what the liberals complain that Bush did. Bush overspent and enlarged Government on a scale never approached even by Democrats, and yet Democrats in Congress and abetted by President Obama have managed to outspend Bush’s 8 years within the first year and a half. The only difference between the two on economic policy is that Bush gave EVERY taxpayer (not just the rich ones) a tax cut. Both Presidents enacted profusely expensive bailout plans which did nothing to help the economy. In my opinon, a much better bailout would have been to return all withheld income taxes to folks making less than $250,000 per year. Those making more already pay the bulk of income taxes, and those making less could use the money to pay down their debt, returning money to the banks, making them more solvent while reducing the personal debt load of the average American. I’d be willing to bet it would also cost a lot less than bailing out corporations which are “too big to fail.”