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   Anthony 2816 said, 5 months ago

   I wish this didn’t make so much sense.

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   fogey said, 5 months ago

   Ben (when asked what the Constitutional Convention had produced) said, “A Republic!” (NOT a Democracy). But just as ‘Democracy’ has become the politically correct word for our government, Americans of the next century will probably talk about a “Madoff” (rather than a PONZI) scheme.

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   Akenta said, 5 months ago

   At least the strip didn’t call us a democracy, just said we were founded on the principles. But fogey, I’m afraid you’re correct about another future term.

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   pschearer said, 5 months ago

   The Lefties don’t dare really understand America because it would require them to admit how un-American they are.

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   ralphman said, 5 months ago

   this one is deeply disturbing because it is so close to the truth.

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   MatthewJB said, 5 months ago

   I believe, Fogey, in that apocryphal story, Franklin is asked whether the constitutional convention had “given” the people a monarchy or a republic. Democracy wasn’t offered as an option.

   The U.S.A. certainly wasn’t a representative democracy in 1788, and it’s barely one now.

   I’d love to see an American government that wanted to serve all the people & help the disadvantaged & oppressed rather than helping the wealthy get wealthier at the expense of the middle- & working-classes & the impoverished. That could be accomplished without any pyramids.

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   foxglove16 said, 5 months ago

   pschearer, get your head out of your a** or the Anne Coulter book, whichever one. They’re so similar…

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   DeeBerg13 said, 5 months ago

   What he said was, “A Republic, if you can keep it.”
   I could say a lot of things here, like, “Then why are hundreds of thousands people trying to get into this country all the time, legally or otherwise, and I don’t see anywhere near as many trying to get out?”
   But what I will say is, if you don’t like this country, go live somewhere else, for Christ’s sake!

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   Susie Rasmussen said, 5 months ago

   Ouch, everyone’s getting a little testy. Chill out folks, it’s only a cartoon, although one that’s hitting a little too close to home.

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    True_Liberal said, 5 months ago

    “I’d love to see an American government that wanted to serve all the people & help the disadvantaged & oppressed rather than helping the wealthy get wealthier…”

    MatthewJB, I have lived in countries such as you describe, and in their egalitarian quest, everyone winds up equally poor. Give me a country with incentive for individuals to succeed, not one which wants to “spread the wealth around”.

    DeeBerg13 has correctly described the incentives this country creates, and folks from those benevolent egalitarian nations (see above) often risk their very lives to come here.

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    Brainiak said, 5 months ago

    What we have here is failure to communicate!

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    MatthewJB said, 5 months ago

    True_Lib, many countries do a better job than does the U.S. of serving all their people, helping the disadvantaged & oppressed, & not simply helping the wealthy get wealthier. The citizens of these countries are not equally poor nor do such countries lack incentives for individuals to earn money, but please do not equate monetary gain with success. There are many forms of success, and monetary gain is not necessarily one of them.

    It’s true that many people immigrate to the U.S. Their circumstances in their countries are worse, and they see that there is more money here than anywhere else. Thus, there is an opportunity for them to gain some of that money, i.e., a spreading of the wealth. Many people immigrate to other countries, too, for similar reasons. The countries that receive large numbers of immigrants are, usually, countries with a higher standard of living for most of its citizens, countries that demonstrate large amounts of wealth, and countries that have practiced, for the last hundred years, imperialism around the globe, affecting many of those countries whence the immigrants emigrate.

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    TheWildSow said, 5 months ago

    Is that Ed Asner playing John Adams?

    Ben looks disturbingly like Dick Cheney!

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    tototiti said, 5 months ago

    It could also be that immigrants are needed to feed the big Madoff scheme: we need people to enter at the bottom of the pyramid.

    Countries that “spread the wealth around” (like all of Europe?) don’t need such an intake and in fact they make immigration very hard. It certainly doesn’t mean immigrants don’t want to go there!

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    DeeBerg13 said, 5 months ago

    tototiti…
    You want the US to be like Europe?
    Why don’t you just go live there?

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    MatthewJB said, 5 months ago

    DeeB, I’d imagine that Toto doesn’t move to Europe for the same reasons that you don’t. It’s admirable that Toto wants to make America better, rather than just leave this beloved country in its current state.

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    DigitalDave said, 5 months ago

    I love your stuff, Ruben, but this time you’re a little off the edge of the map.

    The financial ripoff artists are the rich and powerful. At the founding of the US, those people were called “Loyalists” not “revolutionaries”.

    As proof of my point, read any history of ANY of the founding fathers AFTER the revolution… they all died penniless, with their families and estates in ruins.

    Many were actually hanged.

    The Founding fathers were not the Ponzi schemers, they were the ones that were SICK OF the Ponzi scemers in London!

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    Grokenstein said, 5 months ago

    DigitalDave: Shhhhhh! You’re spoiling the Progressives’ Perpetual Fantasy Of Underdogism!! Just keep your head down and pretend anyone who accomplishes anything of real value is part of “Da Man” and his grand conspiracy!!

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    SeymourDeth said, 5 months ago

    Uhhh, unless I’m completely mistaken, the intent of the comic is to compare and contrast the goals of modern capitalism to the vision of the Founding Fathers. This is done through substitution, a simple literary device which can be quickly identified through reading comprehension and having a sense of humor.

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    Enzo2007 said, 5 months ago

    Ahh… a sense of humor… something greatly lacking in the liberal philosophy and mindset.

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    doctortoon said, 5 months ago

    Enzo2007 says:

    Ahh… a sense of humor… something greatly lacking in the liberal philosophy and mindset.

    I have to give you partial credit on that one.
    Proof that conservatives have a sense of humor: they elected George Bush.

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    jglynn said, 5 months ago

    Hello comic friends!

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    But I warn you! Do not go into this no-holds barred interview on an empty stomach for Ruben speaks candidly on topics most people would rather not address: Cher, Peter Gabriel, Christian Slater, unicorns and snug-fitting pants.

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