Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for May 25, 2014
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Transcript:
Rat: Want to buy a 'rah rah corporations' bumper sticker? Goat: Corporations? Why are you hyping corporations? Rat: Because when anything goes wrong, an employee can blame a manager. And a manger can blame a vice president. And a vice president can blame a president. And a president can blame a C.E.O. And a C.E.O. can blame a board of directors. And a board of directors can just they were just looking out for the shareholders. Which is somehow, buried somewhere in the mutual funds in my 401k account... ...is me. And I have no morals! Goat; Please stop celebrating. Rat: All blame disappears if you disperse it enough.
Sherlock Watson almost 10 years ago
Three cheers for spinelessness!
Phatts almost 10 years ago
Once again, Rat stumbles on to a Kernel of Truth
Bilan almost 10 years ago
I thought the blame (or the s-word) goes downhill.
Sisyphos almost 10 years ago
Given that there are over $23 trillion in mutual funds (worldwide), there is a lot of blame to go around and/or a lot of dispersed and diluted guilt….
Arianne almost 10 years ago
So… the buck disintegrates here? Harry Truman, look away.
Cameron1988 Premium Member almost 10 years ago
Rat’s got that right. he has no morals at all…
jbmlaw01 almost 10 years ago
Agree with Jeff H
puddlesplatt almost 10 years ago
but we all knew that didn’t we?
corzak almost 10 years ago
Excellent . . .
sarah413 Premium Member almost 10 years ago
@laughsforme… Meh. Goes for BOTH sides of the political equation. Neither side is above reproach.
Question, what’s the difference between a politician and a corporate C.E.O.? Trick question as there is none.
CCRock Premium Member almost 10 years ago
Well encapsulated. This should be textbook material for classrooms.
A_NY_Outlaw almost 10 years ago
Sadly Rat has it right…
woodworker318 almost 10 years ago
Why are the Republicans always to blame for everything wrong? The Democrats are just as bad if not worse. Just look at GM.
Number Three almost 10 years ago
Love it!
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TIMH almost 10 years ago
Probably as many as devotees of Ayn Rand who don’t acknowledge that she spent her declining years collecting, both, Social Security and Medicare – - programs that she abhorred when she was younger, flusher, and in better health.
water_moon almost 10 years ago
Adam Smith also said that servants and people doing service jobs that produced no object were worthless. They litteraly didn’t produce anything therefor they didn’t contribute to the economy. .He never enen gave it a thought that his servants doing the cleaning meant he had time to think and write a book, or that the carpenters’ clothes being washed and meals cooked by another meant that they could produce a house.
Red Ruffensor almost 10 years ago
As always, the customer is completely out of the loop.
claire de la lune. almost 10 years ago
Rat stands in triumph!
davedelk almost 10 years ago
The difference between corporations and government is that a government should not be “for-profit” such as a corporation which holds no national allegiance and make the most possible profit for its share-holders.
Saddenedby Premium Member almost 10 years ago
funny this – especially some of the ‘browned eyed’ posts here – in 50 years of political awareness i have seen only two political administrations actually take responsibility for their actions that failed – and the present one is definitely not even close to being one of them. mankind has a whole has always pointed at someone else as the reason for their failure. my favorite expression that i heard many years ago in college – adam blamed eve and eve blamed the snake and the snake didn’t have a leg to stand on – or as flip wilson use to say – it’s not my fault the devil made me do it!