Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau

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  1. leftwingpatriot

    leftwingpatriot said, 10 months ago

    Maybe it will be as successful as Facebook.

  2. Adam Nedens(Snoopster)

    Adam Nedens(Snoopster) said, 10 months ago

    Sound the alarm in Canada

  3. DylanThomas3.14159

    DylanThomas3.14159 said, 9 months ago

    But I don’t “get” why Zonk and Zip should find SHOCKING the possibility of Walden selling shares to the public to get tons of $$$$$$$$ both from incurred public debt and government largesse via inane student loans.

  4. MiepR

    MiepR said, 9 months ago

    @DylanThomas3.14159

    The kind of inane student loans that have no statutes of limitations, and payments of which are parceled out of your social security payments should you have the misfortune to not be able to pay them off before then?

    Perhaps predatory to offer them, but who is inane here? The student for being trusting in a future career being available? The loan officers in offering loans it is impossible to get out from under? The entire system in predating upon the young and thusly ensuring their lifelong enslavement to debt?

    Just sayin’

  5. TheSkulker

    TheSkulker said, 9 months ago

    @MiepR

    You forgot add –
    No relief thru bankruptcy
    Guaranteed loans at exhorbitant interest rates


    Castration is too good for bankers!

  6. DylanThomas3.14159

    DylanThomas3.14159 said, 9 months ago

    @MiepR

    “. . . trusting in a future career . . . loans it is impossible to get out from under . . . predating upon the young . . . .”
    π
    That being the case, why wouldn’t Zip be elated and rush to apply for a loan that gives him $$? We’ve got no “debtors’ prison” in this country. I’m mean, can he see that far into the future?

  7. artybee

    artybee said, 9 months ago

    I don’t know what you call a prison housing a person because of his debts.

  8. Pharmakeus Ubik

    Pharmakeus Ubik said, 9 months ago

    @DylanThomas3.14159

    According to the linked article there are currently five states were debts can put you in jail.

    http://preview.tinyurl.com/84n59kl

  9. DylanThomas3.14159

    DylanThomas3.14159 said, 9 months ago

    @Pharmakeus Ubik

    I went to the link, Pharmakeus Ubik, and here’s a quote from the news article there:
    π
    “A 2010 report by the American Civil Liberties Union that focused on only five states — Georgia, Louisiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Washington — found that people were being jailed at “increasingly alarming rates” over legal debts."

  10. capndunzzl

    capndunzzl said, 9 months ago

    …people will care….but greed will win out.

  11. Spaghettus1

    Spaghettus1 said, 9 months ago

    The debt being taken on by students is costing all of us. Many of the most innovative businesses with explosive growth potential are created by young entrepreneurs. The middle and lower-class students who graduate with big debt won’t have that option. Countries who follow the more advanced approach of greater public finance for education will continue to reap the economic benefits. In addition to the young self-employed, high-tech companies move in to take advantage of the rest of the well-educated work force.


    We can in invest in our future, or mortgage it for tax cuts for people who don’t need them.

  12. icky mudd

    icky mudd said, 9 months ago

    @Spaghettus1

    Well said.
    Thank you! I feel like screaming this from the roof tops.

  13. Guard SGT

    Guard SGT said, 9 months ago

    @icky mudd

    And what do you get from raising taxes:
    Less money that expected, and greedy politicians that will spend the money twice.
    You can look at Clinton the Impeached luxury tax on boats on cars. The Government in the end netted less money than before the tax increase.
    What works is lowering taxes and less spending. That is exactly how Speaker Gingrich and Majority Leader Lott did it.
    Why not try what is proven to work???

  14. Richard S. Russell

    Richard S. Russell said, 9 months ago

    @Guard SGT

    Guard SGT wrote: “What works is lowering taxes …. Why not try what is proven to work?”
     
    George W. Bush lowered taxes 10 years ago, promising an economic boom as the wealth trickled down from the super-rich to the rest of us. THAT’S what you think has been “proven to work”? Then where are all the jobs? Oh, yeah: China!

  15. wdgnas

    wdgnas said, 9 months ago

    guard sgt: where are the jobs that were created for the tax breaks? the welfare cheats have taken the governments money and done nothing.

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