Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for October 27, 2012

Reality is something Jeff doesn’t want any part of.

In that case, Jeff should use his CIA connections to get a job working for Karl Rove, Inc.

Hmm, young Mitt Romney talking with George???

At the end of this year Jeff will be 30 years old.

…and shack up and line up for free stuff!

Reality based lifestyle? Like not wearing sunglasses indoors.

I fear Mr. Pi might be an optimist.

This is not our way, what else you got?

My Son is married, both have jobs, no children, 42 years old and I still send him 8-10 thousand a year to live a decent life. He will have his mortgage paid off in 10 years. My grandson and his wife and 2 children get my house when I die, but I bet he won’t be able to come up with the 2 grand a year to maintain it and two cars all that are paid for unless they never go out to eat. I just want to outlive my dogs so I know that they are well taken care of the rest of their lives. That takes 5-6 grand a year.

And here I thought you lived in a phone booth?

I’m organizing…want to change things?

The daily show sent one of their cast to talk to young people who said they were looking for jobs. They were told how desperate farmers were to find legal citizens willing and able to do the hard work of harvesting fruits and vegetable from fields and orchards. Out of the 16 to 20 young people there, mostly men, not one was willing to take the job. Too hard, not enough pay. Having had to help my grandmother in her garden, and having helped friends of mine in their families fields and ranches so they could play, I agree with these young people. It is very hard work and while I worked for free(unless home made pie, cookies, jellies, biscuits, etc count) it is very hard work and unless you are very fast, or have a generous employer, the pay is very low. Jeff isn’t prepared for a reality based life style.Respectfully,C.

Larry? Can I come and live in YOUR basement? Please!!?

Larry, I don’t have to live in your basement, but you could adopt me. 2 people with full time jobs and no kids should not need monetary help, unless they are still in “entry” level(dead end) jobs.

I am sure that if I weren’t disabled, I could make enough. The problem is those pesky 30 something kids.

I heard Tom Hanks, he will direct and play Rick, just picked up the option to turn Red’s book into major motion picture.It is rumored that Shai LeBeouf will play Jeff.

This advice didn’t work for all the 99%ers living beyond their means either.

. . . also, the rest of the world wants a piece of “the good life” and is no longer willing to work for slave wages – lots of variables.

Jeff will now fit in nicely with the 47%.

If you don’t come to live with reality, reality will come to live with you. In your basement.

Jeff showing his Mausoleum to Joan & Rick was here:http://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2012/04/08 not on September 13 – I apologize for yesterday’s mistake, there was no rocade there, rerun is what it’s called.And like I said: I mean to put the Redfern Family Satire together, with interspersed footage about Mel soldiering in Afghanistan, and show it to the kids before it’s too late. Unless G T beats me at it.

Hey, whatever happened to intelligent discourse on this website?

If you want to pin the housing crisis on something, try the Gramm-Leach-Bliley bank deregulation bill of 1999. The banks dove in headfirst, pursuing subprime mortgage business once the standards were lowered. It was deregulation, not regulations to force “diversity” that created the bubble and the bust.

Yer wrong. The feds didn’t tell the investment banks to go out making bad loans – they were falling all over themselves to do it, and had been for years before the 2006 Congress. Fanny and Freddy weren’t pace setters in the rubbish loans market of the 2000’s, they were late to the game. Wall Street investment banks, starting in the early 80s, were actively seeking how to manufacture more crappy credit, because they were gaming the credit rating agencies and bundling the crappy credit as AAA bonds, selling that to institutional investors (insurance co’s, retirement funds, etc that typically seek low risk investments), and then in many cases betting against their own bonds and their many derivatives (although that came late in the game, as they realized their house of cards was going to topple – although they continued to sell the crap bonds and derivatives to clients)..The roots of the 2008 financial crisis weren’t the 2006 Congress – the loans that started to go bad in record numbers in mid-2006 were made years earlier, and were a symptom of an unregulated market in mortgage-based bonds first created by Wall Street in the 80’s – and whose first collapse gave us the Savings and Loans crisis of the 80’s, costing US taxpayers vast sums then, as well. But rather than learn from that, a GOP-led Congress, at the behest of Wall Street, pressed hard from 1996 on to repeal Glass-Steagal, further eroding the line between commercial and investment banking, and priming the pump for financial crisis..If you want a relatively easy-to-read primer on Wall Street from the 80’s through the crisis, I’d recommend “Liars Poker” and “The Big Short”, both by Micheal Lewis.

If the salary + bonus of the executirve could not exceed Y x the salary of the full-time worker, would not both be encouraged to increase the income of the company? Something so simple/ simplistic? must have a flaw but is there something uselful there to be harvested or adapted? DTpi, can you tell me?

“DTpi, can you tell me?”

I could try if I could comprehend the question.

Dylan Thomas, may I borrow your Romney World essay?

It’s time to write a sequel, Jeff!