Mike Lester for November 11, 2019

So Mr. Lester is going racist, Trump style.

I am so worried about the billionaires.

Cut off? A humble 15 year Meijer employee had her life insurance cut off upon her cancer diagnosis. Then Meijer declared it was a pre-existing condition and cut off her health insurance retroactively, causing Lutheran Hospital to seize the family home. Her husband’s right hand by a work injury. His fingers were folded in against his palm, and would remain that way without physical therapy. His employer had cut costs by not providing health insurance in the first place. With dubious prospects for employment, once they were unable to pay Lutheran to stay in their home there would be another cut.I reencountered a 7th grader who’d been in a gifted program after he joined the faculty years later. He’d been managing the household since grade school, as both parents and his sister were “mentally retarded” in pre-PC terms.His father worked as a janitor for 29 years. He begore he hit 30 was let go to avoid paying pension benefits.Cost cutting of this sort is rampant, cruel, and “smart”. This is sympathy for the devil as far as I’m concerned.

Warren is that dangerous type of scholar that wants to turn her ivory tower chimera into reality. If you want to see what a Warren presidency would mean, read:[https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/19/opinion/elizabeth-warren.html]

If there’s only 607 billionaires in the entire world, why are we so concerned about them and not the hundreds of millions of other citizens in the US?

For Trump Disciples like Lester, portraying Warren as ‘Pocahontas’ proves that banks need no regulation whatsoever, and that wealth inequality is wonderful and the more of it the better.

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Trump Disciple analysis skills.

I realize Mike wants to pay homage to Warren’s tiny sliver of native ancestry with the scalping bit, but at the end of the day, Warren’s a pragmatist, and she would quickly realize that a guillotine would make a better instrument in this scenario.

Does anyone remember that scalping was invented by Europeans? They were paying Natives to kill their enemies and wanted proof of the deaths. Scalps were the closest thing to box tops, so…

Conservatives call it a wealth tax. The rest of us call it an “everyone pays their fair share” tax.

I can’t call this disappointing. It is exactly what I expect from Lester.

Nice one Mike. No doubt you think this all makes sense. But of course, here’s the thing: She’s only got a tiny amount of native genetic markers, and she’s fessed up, even gotten some native leaders to say it’s good. Then there’s the point that right now, we have the greatest disparity between the rich and the middle class that we’ve ever had (there was more disparity than this back when there was no middle class). Than we’ve ever had. Ever. She could work on fixing it at the bottom end (and she is: Health care will be much more affordable even if we end up paying a larger tax, which her figures show won’t need to happen). But it’s a LOT more efficient to talk to the 100 or so obscenely rich folks, and get them to pony up about 5% or 6% of their insanely huge nest egg. An amount that they’ll “earn” back within a year simply by keeping the rest of it invested. Remember: This isn’t for the rich, or even the very rich: It’s for the obscenely rich.

Good on her.

Mike,nobody disputes he fact of outrageous inequality in this strange and savage land. In Eisenhower’s day, the top rates were multiples of today’s – and the economy was unharmed. And the GOP tax bill blew the deficit thru the roof. ALL the “civilized” countries have universal health care.Why not us?

I urge you to make Paul Krugman (Nobel-winning economist) a regular part of your reading.

You really need to stop eating those M&M’s, guys. Sooner or later you’re going to get the poisoned one.

This is really sad. All of life before you, and you’re wasting it in forums where nobody really cares what your opinion is.

The Internet is killing society by giving folks the opportunity to spew hateful rhetoric without consequence. (Not referring to editorial comics of any kind, as they serve another purpose.)

Take care what you wish (or rant) for, you may actually get it some day.

Maybe we need a rule that people convicted of Spousal abuse shouldn’t draw political cartoons?

You got it wrong, again, Mike. Liz is actually distantly related to Sacajawea.

I’m surprised she hasn’t said something like, “After all, it’s our money, not your money”…