Register for a FREE GoComics account and get this plus any other comic strip delivered to your Personalized
Comic Page, Daily. With a free account you will be able to build a Comic Page filled with the Comics you
want to see each day.
With the largest collection of Comics and Editorial Cartoons online there is plenty to choose from. Upgrade
to a GoComics Pro account (Only $.99/Month) and have unlimited archive access to decades of comics.
Why didn’t corporations invest in infrastructure, expanding markets, and hiring? Because they were only interested in hiring a very few number of people. Presidents, Senators, Congressmen, State Legislators, and even a few judges got the focus of the money. The money “trickled down” to people producing, creating, and acting for tv ads. The “Job Creators” kept printing shops, newspapers, and radio station ad staff very employed for the last two years. And now, like Christmas jobs, its over and the layoffs begin. Will they start spending on real things now, or will the losers keep their threats to layoff workers and cut benefits while the winners put their money aside until the need it in 2014? This isn’t the way capitalism is supposed to work if we’re to have a truly healthy economy. Respectfully, C.
The last thing the US needs is infrastructure. Decent Americans have their own, private airports, their own chauffeured limos with private parking areas, and absolutely no need of your ‘infrastructure’. And since there is absolutely no need, and since corporations only make money when they fulfil a need, no corporation is going to rebuild America’s useless infrastructure that was so 20th century.
Until his limo breaks an axle on the way to the airport, causing him to have to take off late and land at a field where the ATC on duty for the night shift has been downsized out of existence.
MMMHMM. . The last four years were a great opportunity—missed—by corporations to show that they WERE really job creators, to show that they WERE patriotic and wanted to help America when it was down, and to explain truthfully to customers and voters that a huge part of our economy is the part where corporations work with the government to build and improve. . They traded the opportunity for a shot at keeping more money for a handful of individuals. . But as a media professional (and one who unfortunately didn’t really benefit from the gazillions poured into the election), I disagree that what happened in the media wasn’t good for the economy. It’s been one of the few economic bright spots in the last 4 years.
Joel Pett is a three-time finalist for Pulitzer Prize for cartooning. He won the award in 2000. He joined Lexington Herald-Leader in 1984 and USAToday as contributing cartoonist in 2002.
Henry Payne by Henry Payne
Ted Rall by Ted Rall
Comments (5) (Please sign in to comment)
Respectful Troll said, 7 months ago
Why didn’t corporations invest in infrastructure, expanding markets, and hiring? Because they were only interested in hiring a very few number of people. Presidents, Senators, Congressmen, State Legislators, and even a few judges got the focus of the money. The money “trickled down” to people producing, creating, and acting for tv ads. The “Job Creators” kept printing shops, newspapers, and radio station ad staff very employed for the last two years. And now, like Christmas jobs, its over and the layoffs begin.
Will they start spending on real things now, or will the losers keep their threats to layoff workers and cut benefits while the winners put their money aside until the need it in 2014?
This isn’t the way capitalism is supposed to work if we’re to have a truly healthy economy.
Respectfully,
C.
Dredpiraterobt$ said, 7 months ago
A very good character Mr Pett!
.
Please keep him around! He is one of your best!
.
Different from the same old cat!
Michael wme said, 7 months ago
@Respectful Troll
The last thing the US needs is infrastructure. Decent Americans have their own, private airports, their own chauffeured limos with private parking areas, and absolutely no need of your ‘infrastructure’. And since there is absolutely no need, and since corporations only make money when they fulfil a need, no corporation is going to rebuild America’s useless infrastructure that was so 20th century.
Eryx
said, 7 months ago
@Michael wme
Until his limo breaks an axle on the way to the airport, causing him to have to take off late and land at a field where the ATC on duty for the night shift has been downsized out of existence.
Chillbilly
said, 6 months ago
@Respectful Troll
MMMHMM.
.
The last four years were a great opportunity—missed—by corporations to show that they WERE really job creators, to show that they WERE patriotic and wanted to help America when it was down, and to explain truthfully to customers and voters that a huge part of our economy is the part where corporations work with the government to build and improve.
.
They traded the opportunity for a shot at keeping more money for a handful of individuals.
.
But as a media professional (and one who unfortunately didn’t really benefit from the gazillions poured into the election), I disagree that what happened in the media wasn’t good for the economy. It’s been one of the few economic bright spots in the last 4 years.