Rob Rogers is the award-winning editorial cartoonist for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. His cartoons have been vexing and entertaining readers in Pittsburgh since 1984. Syndicated by United Feature Syndicate, Rogers’ work also appears in The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today and Newsweek, among others.
Rogers has also been the curator of three national cartoon exhibitions, Too Hot to Handle: Creating Controversy through Political Cartoons (2003) and Drawn To The Summit: A G-20 Exhibition Of Political Cartoons (2009), both at The Andy Warhol Museum, and Bush Leaguers: Cartoonists Take on the White House (2007) at the American University Museum. Rogers is an active member (and past president) of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. His work received the 2000 Thomas Nast Award from the Overseas Press Club, the 1995 National Headliner Award, and numerous Golden Quills. In 1999 he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
In 2009, Rogers celebrated 25 years as a Pittsburgh editorial cartoonist with the release of his book, No Cartoon Left Behind: The Best of Rob Rogers, published by Carnegie Mellon University Press.
He is currently serving as board president of the ToonSeum, a cartoon museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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Radish
said, 7 months ago
Social Security is fully paid up till 2035, shouldn’t even be part of this years talks, just more fear tatics from politicians.
NebulousRikulau
said, 7 months ago
Not a good idea, dude.
The Ten Million Granny March on Washington will be a horrifying thing.
braindead08 said, 7 months ago
Republicans are sure going to enjoy working through Christmas. Surely, they would never compromise their PRINCIPLES, whatever they are, just to get out of town.
walruscarver2000 said, 7 months ago
If what I get from social security is any example, God help the poor sob who has to live on that and nothing else.
Clark Kent said, 7 months ago
The elephant should be the piñata.
magicwalnut said, 7 months ago
@NebulousRikulau
I’m in! When do we leave?
treesareus said, 7 months ago
@Radish
There IS no $$ in the SS “trust fund”. It is part of the US debt.
treesareus said, 7 months ago
The total US debt and unfunded liabilites of SS, Medicare, etc, are about $138 trillion and increasing at the rate of $8.25 trillion every year. The total gross domestic product of the US is about $15.5 trillion…so the US is taking a bath in red ink.
ronald rini
said, 7 months ago
This is great if the goverment can do this then insurance companies should be able to do the same. What need to be done is put people in jail that are sucking SS on fake injuries and also get welfare people and people that did not put into it off medicare. Put them on some other plan not SS.
PlainBill said, 7 months ago
@ronald rini
Go look it up. You are talking about three separate funds. Social Security is funded through employee and employer contributions. At present, it will run through it’s reserves (trust fund) in 21 years. (Treesaurus is wrong. The US government is holding the reserves, and is responsible for returning them. Consider if you deposited $100,000 in a bank, which then loaned it to various businesses and individuals. Treesaurus is saying you don’t have $100,000 in the bank, the bank has used it.)
Medicare is also funded through employee and employer contributions. It’s reserves are much less. Social Security requires minor adjustments so it can be put on a firm financial basis; Medicare will require more severe adjustments.
Medicaid provides health carer for children and the poor. It is totally funded by the US Government.
coraryan
said, 7 months ago
SS was started by a Democrat, F.D.R. It was really nothing more than another tax, as the life expectancy was 58 at the time. F.D.R. did not even live long enough to have collected it! And it was Jimmy Carter who put the money in the general fund so his debt would not look so bad. And they proceeded to spend the money on everything except senior citizens. And I do not believe that children should be collecting SS when a parent dies. That is what Welfare is for – get your sticky little fingers off my Social Security! I fear the next thing that will happen is we will wake up one morning and find out that Obama has issued a royal decree – oh, excuse me, executive order – cutting everyone’s Social Security payments in half. He’d like to get rid of all us old folks anyway. That would help!
bobwinners
said, 7 months ago
The terms of SSI have changed many times over the years and they will continue to change. SSI itself will remain.
Lin W
said, 7 months ago
You’ve got the comic backwards.
lookinside said, 7 months ago
I think cora enjoys her breakfast cocktail….
mickey1339
said, 7 months ago
@Mr. King
“Wow! I’ll have to tell all my friends! This is the place to get real economics education!”
Actually G, there is an amazing amount information posted here, especially if one was to research many of the links provided. I usually try to provide a source for what I post and if possible keep it objective in nature.
Of course some of the reference here is to partisan bullshit. Some of it is just personal ranting. That’s what makes it entertaining.
The link included below is reference to an explanation of the core elements and operation of social security.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Security_Trust_Fund