Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for October 27, 2012

I agree with Goat, not Rat, but he has a point……

Rat scores big with this one.

If he was wealthy he could start his own “Rat PAC”. That would really be something.

As always, Rat is right.

Funny how unions never get mentioned in this context…

while i agree with rat about PACs and special interests, unfortunately goat is correct. i think that once these folks are barred from “contibuting”, we’ll finally see a real leader in office.

Put up a sign, “Hungry. Please help.” and you might get a buck.Put up one, “Support my Election Campaign” and you get thousands. And matching Government funds.And then they have the gall to tell the first guy, “Get a Job!”

Geez, Rat, you talk as if bribes and campaign contributions were the same thing!

Give them all tip jars. . ..

@ Swiftbow: The union that I’m REALLY against is one where they sit around and make money off of other people’s work. It’s called “The Old Boy Network”.

No, Rat is not correct.Basically, the way the system works is …Actually, he is correct.

OK, I know Halloween is coming up but this is getting scary. A few days ago I found myself agreeing with Bucky of Get Fuzzy. Now I agree with Rat. Hold me, somebody, I’m scared…

orinco, awe, there, there. Things always work out….in a ball of flaming death…

Rat’s right, it’s a bribe. But it’s gotten around the illegal nature by being called a campaign contribution. Kinda like how something else illegal was gotten around the illegal nature by being called a tax.

Swiftbow, why the hate? People that actually use their hands to make things and serve the needs of society, deserve a fair shake.. what’s wrong with you? Why the hatred of your fellow Americans? I bet 75% of them do more physical labor than you do every day…Some people shower before work, and some people have to shower before and after work….Why hate on them?. A union is people working together on equal terms…What the hell is wrong with that, and what the hell is wrong with you?

I didn’t know Goat was a Mormon….oh wait, I misread that. Sorry.

“When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.” ― P.J. O’Rourke

Truth, sad and a funny line.

Another spot-on observation by rat!!!

Please don’t suppress my Multi-National-Corporation’s right to free speech and offshore tax rates.

If by “Bribe” we mean, “Give someone with influence money so that they will do what we want,” then our entire system is ALL ABOUT MONEY. And those with the most money have all the influence.

Unions have a fraction of the influence that they once had and a tiny fraction of the political giving. That’s not opinion – it is the straight numbers. If you think they compare financially with corporations, then you haven’t been doing your homework.Corporations, on the other hand, have a capacity for virtually unlimited bribing. They own our government – not us. And since few corporations are purely American, that means that we are being de facto governed by rich foreigners.We have never done unions well in this country, but we’re a lot better off having them than not.

Nailed it in one.

Mr Know-It-All!

or Mr-Thinks-He-Knows-It-All

LOL xxx

Sort of like the president demonising corporations and then quietly taking bucketloads of cash from them. They have to be getting Something for it.

I was going to say Pastis ignores the unions, but old1953 already did.

see if he can answer this one why are there not slander suits after or during a campain

Thank you for pointing this fact out to everyone. Campaign contributions = Bribes.

Agreeing with Rat, very scary indeed

OMG this is the first time I agree with Rat 100% and with Goat ZILCH

Good one!

Take a look at the “fact finding missions” your “leaders” take for vacations, and who pays for them. Figure it out. It’s sad many people who agree with goat are also sheep.

if we did that to a police officer we would go to jail but it is ok if it helps some party

Redkaycei, don’t forget the weekend. Unions gave us the weekend. And man, do I love me my weekends….♫ ♪ Were all workin’ for the weekend….♪ ♪ ♫

bpullin, the unions will give money to any candidate that helps people who work for a living. It’s not their fault it’s only democratic politicians who want to help the working person. Your money is being spent to protect your rights, your pay, and dignity. What is wrong with that? If you feel so strongly about it, why don’t you insist on republican candidates that support working people?

The entire US political election system is screwed up. The parties focus all their funding on one candidate each, and media follows along them like lemmings. Any other candidates are completely forgotten and receive 30 second blurbs at best. This causes many people to believe those two are the ONLY candidates for the presidency and so they vote for the “lesser of the two evils” if they do not follow a “loyalty” party vote.Add in the electoral college system and I don’t see how the US public can actually believe they have truly voted for whomever “wins” the “election”.

The campaign contribution laws are DESIGNED to allow major contributors to dump “loads” of funds into a candidates political war chest. I find the entire idea of allowing corporations to donate money to ANY elected official tainted, and ethically wrong.The common public may have donated the most when totaled up, but those huge multi-thousand dollar donations are all that a candidate sees …. and wants to continue seeing. The little mans’ contribution of $25 × 750,000 donators becomes ignored……

Rat.

and SCOTUS agrees with you, goat. a fine example of why the fringes wanting a fully reformed government are edging in….

Today’s strip is like something from Laugh-In; two guys have a quick dialogue pointing out something that’s wrong with the System, and there’s a (sort of) punch line.

Funny how the most obnoxious people are sometimes the ones with the most straightforward vision

From the mouth of a cartoon artist…..

A union crushing a multinational multi-billion dollar corporation? That’s the funniest thing I’ve seen today!

So long as corporations are considered legal “persons” and are permitted to contribute to political campaigns, congressman will be “influenced.” When campaigns are limited and publicly funded, our congressional representatives will be free to represent us, “the people.”

But Congress will never reform itself.

11 years later nothing has been done about this and it’s still a problem. . .