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Ira Nayman said, 3 months ago
Wascawwy pwofits!
Night-Gaunt49 said, 3 months ago
They believe in “free enterprise” as long as they are free to abuse their employees and make out like bandits protected from any criminal charges.
Doughfoot said, 3 months ago
I am all for private profit! So long as those who make the profits are same ones who (a) bear the costs, (b) take the risks, and, to some extent, © do the work.
“Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.” — Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary (1906)
edinbaltimore said, 3 months ago
And up until they need a TIF or other governmental financing to “ensure” job creation!
Tue Elung-Jensen said, 3 months ago
Btw if companies are people then arms manufacturers are too – which means that the rifles are people too. So selling guns is slavery and / or able to be prosecuted for murders.
D-squared said, 3 months ago
Be vewy quiet
Kylie2112 said, 3 months ago
@Doughfoot
The Devil’s Dictionary is still oh so true today.
Ms. Ima said, 3 months ago
Oh, the global warming crowd is using guns to further their hatred and ignorance speak.
Rx71Wm29 said, 3 months ago
Hey, didn’t you get the memo: Corporations are people too!
Godfreydaniel said, 3 months ago
“The vice-president of an advertising agency is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conference.”—Fred Allen (This really applies to all executives at all corporations, of course.)
Omnius said, 3 months ago
The NRA is the most corrupt terrorist organization America has ever faced. The NRA should be listed alongside Al Qaeda as the organization that kills the most Americans.
Anthony 2816
said, 3 months ago
I knew this cartoon would bring the pollution-lovers like Ima out of the woodwork. Going on vacation to Bejing this year, Ima?
antiquetracman
said, 3 months ago
Omnius, The Liberal democrats are the most corrupt terrorist gangs in America by forcing liberal agenda’s on law abiding citizens, their attempts to disarm the population place them along side Adolf Hitler, Chairman Mao, and Stalin as the organization that wants to enslave the most Americans. They kill more Americans by allowing convicted murders and other violent felons out for good behavior and wanting to further this by disarming the citzen and his/her right to defend themselves.
Bruce4671 said, 3 months ago
Good googly-moogly…..this has got to stop.
What, do you all want to shut down the power plants today?
Go ahead. Sit in the dark. Sit in the cold up north. sit in the heat down south. quit building stuff. Shut it all down. Stop producing fossil fuels. Walk or bike to work – if you have any. No farms= can’t run the tractor on wind power. No communication – takes electricity to run computers. You’re all nuts.
Sure, keep up the good work in alternative energy research and bring that stuff on line. Yeah, power companies should be the ones investing in it. They could cut generating cost in half today by “investing” in solar panels for every other home in the area. That’s right, rent roof space. Give people a 10% break on their power bill and put a 4K system on every roof top with 5 hours of sunlight exposure a day. (government programs are helping the people to do this but it still costs too much). And WTF, why can’t these companies improve emissions levels? Should have done it without the EPA in their face.
Crap, I’m turning into a liberal
Rockngolfer said, 3 months ago
A local columnist for a free newspaper, Bob Driver, uses the device of a man going to a party and ending up talking to two gun enthusiasts.
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After going over the list of how many people died in mass shootings vs how many died due to individual murders, and other statistics, the character comes to a conclusion.
He says “I don’t know and neither does anybody else. The best I can come up with is that we’d better accept the inevitable. The guns are out there and they will stay. So are most of the shooters. The same goes for the NRA, the gun manufacturers, the payoffs to the lawmakers, the whole heartbreaking catastrophe. Remember the financial crash of 2008, and how we paid billions of undeserved dollars to gut rotten banks because they were ‘too big to fail?’ Well, that’s what happened with the gun control delemma. It’s become too big a problem to solve.”
Then he said he hopes he is wrong.