Ted Rall by Ted Rall

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  1. zeeshan71

    zeeshan71 said, 27 days ago

    Hey, Ted, how about a comic targeting the billions in agricultural subsidies that Republican-dominated farm states are happy to accept in spite of voting for “small government” touting morons? Maybe that money would be better spent creating green jobs everywhere.

  2. kreole

    kreole said, 27 days ago

    Ted, that is “on-target” — well done!

  3. Lavocat

    Lavocat said, 26 days ago

    What an epiphany: actually investing in the people whose money the government takes in taxes instead of giving it away to undeserving, monolithic corporations!

    What an amazing idea!!!!!

  4. S_T_F_U

    S_T_F_U said, 26 days ago

    Bravo, Ted. Is this what B.O. meant when he talked about “shovel ready” work?
    @ zeesham, The Democrats are in control of both houses of congress, if ag subsidies are so bad, why don’t they do something about it?!?

  5. cdward

    cdward said, 26 days ago

    ^I don’t care which side of the aisle you’re on, once something is given or done, it’s very hard to take away or undo it.

  6. scottfreitas

    scottfreitasGenius_badge said, 26 days ago

    Yep. This cartoon perfectly represents the so-called “Stimulus Package”; where Government grows bigger, fatter, stronger, more powerful, able to leap over empty spaces where a pair of mammoth skyscrapers once stood with a single bound, while people like me gain nothing at all except a monstrous shadow looming overhead, a shadow labeled NATIONAL DEBT or maybe INFLATION SPIRAL or WEAKENING DOLLAR…

    The bulk of Osama-voters fail to recognize that their day of reckoning is steadily approaching. And that their choice of politicians has made it into OUR day of reckoning. A day when America’s economy starts plummeting downward like an elevator car with all of the cables cut, a day when they’ll realize that no amount of whining or lying or pointing fingers at Bush or the GOP or the RELIJUZ RITE will save them from watching the monster Government they created begin stumbling around like Godzilla stomping Tokyo, belching flame and smoke out of its mouth, causing mayhem on a scale never before seen as it struggles to survive, to feed itself, to destroy all the tiny armies of angry people attempting to combat it, innocent people desperate to save themselves before they too are trampled to death…

  7. nemesis-of-empire

    nemesis-of-empire said, 26 days ago

    Scott, you’re funny. Aside from sitting on your butt snarking cartoons, why aren’t you out there working? The majority of American jobs come from small business. Are you too big to be small business?

    Any jerk can criticize. I don’t see you doing anything but throwing sand in the machinery. You must be collecting a Government pension.

  8. NeoconMan

    NeoconMan said, 26 days ago

    This Obama character has got to be stopped. Every dollar he puts back into the economy is one dollar less in the pockets of Big Business. How are we going to keep investing in China and India if the American taxpayer keeps sucking up all our investment capital?

    REPUBLICANS IN CONGRESS IN 2010!

  9. Lavocat

    Lavocat said, 26 days ago

    How many of those Goldman-Sachs’ year-end bonuses can be “clawed-back” into a fund to extend the unemployment benefits of those who ain’t so lucky?

    So much for Christian charity.

  10. scottfreitas

    scottfreitasGenius_badge said, 26 days ago

    “Christian charity?” (looks inside his Bible) “Says here in the New Testament that if a man will not work, then he shall not eat…”

    “Widows and orphans”, btw, do NOT equate into unmarried-by-choice sluts having three kids by three different men being handed EBT cards by female bureacrats with which to buy junk food and fountain drinks, freeing up their own cash so they can buy cigarettes and lottery tickets…

  11. rikoshayrabbit

    rikoshayrabbit said, 26 days ago

    Scott, you are seriously disturbed. Also… you told me you’ve got a job! You are at work, I presume, so are you writing all this stuff during your break or are you abusing the company internet? You are behaving quite alike a miserable slut yourself, and I strongly suggest you quit your job and create your own reality before we read about some guy named Scott who shot up the whole office in a bloody assault. All of your whining is not masculine, to say the very least.

  12. scottfreitas

    scottfreitasGenius_badge said, 26 days ago

    The whole world doesnt work 9-5, kids.

    At least I work, though.

    Someone has to pay for those 30+ million unmarried chicks’ EBT cards, and guess who that someone is, in part…

    I can’t take credit yet for paying for the “Stimulus Package” depicted in today’s cartoon (see above) because that bill is being dumped on people 10 years from now….

    If I’m still alive then, think of the galley slave scene from Ben Hur. I’ll be strapped down belowdecks alongside the other wage slaves, sweating into an oar while being whipped by some Demoncrat politician…

    (bares teeth) “May God grant me vengeance!..

  13. ReasonsVentriloquist

    ReasonsVentriloquist said, 26 days ago

    Unemployment Emporium? You mean you can now buy yourself some unemployment? WooHoo! “Let me get a can of Friday’s Off please”

    I guess I say this to Ted, Pessimism is easy especially during bad times. I appreciate pessimism during the good times, but these days I like things that are more up beat. I’d ask you to join me in my contrarianism.

  14. dtroutma

    dtroutma said, 26 days ago

    It IS the house that Bush built - he wasn’t even bright enough to see that Reagan and his own dad DID change course from their failing policies- he just plunged over the edge. BTW, Republicans routinely GREW government, especially when it came to political appointees, who were converted to Civil Service so it was harder to get rid of them.

  15. scottfreitas

    scottfreitasGenius_badge said, 26 days ago

    Only a liberal could be dumb enough to think that paying people more money for NOT working is going to solve any problems.

    The economy under FDR never came close to recovering, World War 2 came along and “created jobs overseas”… :/

  16. edmondd

    edmondd said, 26 days ago

    Folks, stop piling on Scott like that won’t ya? I think progressives should have better manners.

  17. HoosierX

    HoosierX said, 26 days ago

    And we all know how World War II was won by the efforts of private industry fighting against big government.

  18. cdward

    cdward said, 25 days ago

    edmondd responding to scott’s posts is not piling on. You may note that he is a prolific commenter with bold and sweeping proclamations. The choice is to ignore (as you suggest?) or respond. There are times, too, when he can be offensive, and that too deserves to be called out.

    scott wrote: “paying people more money for NOT working…” which sounds a lot like the farm subsidies of the past. My farmer grandfather didn’t get them but BIG agra-business farms did.

  19. audieholland

    audieholland said, 25 days ago

    Scott, in reply to your assertion that the oil-gas pipeline from the Caspian sea is “Russian.” It does not mean anything.

    Do you know who is a big investor in the project? Royal Dutch Shell, the Anglo-Dutch big oil company. That is also the main reason why we have a token force of Dutch soldiers in Afghanistan.

    Anyway, the Russian Revolution was financed by Wall Street, which also financed the German war industry under Hitler.

  20. Oberon111

    Oberon111 said, 25 days ago

    Scott,
    It’s fine to be a ignorant, fanatical wing nut but can’t you at least draw the line somewhere before always making the embarrassingly racist Osama/Obama reference? You are already marginalizing yourself with you backwards ill informed opinions. Do you really think you you’ll win any arguments when you decide to compare the first black president to the worlds most notorious terrorist?

    How stupid and/or racist are you?

  21. scottfreitas

    scottfreitasGenius_badge said, 25 days ago

    The real Osama has no better friend in the White House than Mr. Hussein Obama.

    You SURE Osama and Obama aren’t the same person? I’ve never seen the two of them together in the same room…

    PS lol @ racism charges. Manipulation may work on weak-willed little girls but it will never work on me..

  22. eft

    eft said, 24 days ago

    scott,

    i love how during your laughing off of charges of racism, you are being massively sexist. you go girl!

  23. ReasonsVentriloquist

    ReasonsVentriloquist said, 24 days ago

    “Anyway, the Russian Revolution was financed by Wall Street, which also financed the German war industry under Hitler.”

    There you go, blaming everything on the Bushes again!

    What?

    Oh…. I’m being told that it was Prescott Bush.

    Carry on!

  24. Oberon111

    Oberon111 said, 24 days ago

    Sure Scott,
    Comparing Obama to Osama isn’t racist. Yeah, ok.
    Weak minded little girl?
    No.
    Ignorant, racist and stupid little boy more like.

    Keep the comments coming Scott. We all get a good laugh out of you.

  25. comYics

    comYics said, 22 days ago

    The Stimulus will perhaps be due when the next president arrives in that oval office.