Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for July 02, 2006
July 01, 2006
July 03, 2006
Transcript:
"Did you know that while the average major league baseball player makes about $2,300,000 a year, the average starting teacher's salary is $29,000?" "That means a baseball player makes in two games what it takes that teacher an entire year to earn." "How 'bout we all agree on one day a year where we take the money we would have spent at a game and give it to our kid's teacher?" "Don't you think that's a better use of about $150?" "Yo, comrade... That's called communism and we defeated it in the war of... Uh... 1812." "The Cold War." "Yes... It was quite cold during the War of 1812." "Whoa. We're missing baseball."
tigre1 about 12 years ago
Take your ‘Christian’ beliefs, and write them on a few pages of notebook paper. Put them aside. Then find a copy of the New Testament…somebody you know probably has one. Read it, and compare. You may be surprised to find out that it was the rich and politically powerful who killed Jesus, mainly by lying about him. A lot like today, and you may come to some interesting other conclusions, too.
Personally,the way I read it…most of what we call our culture…that is, the way YOU and I live…? are antithetical to Christ’s teachings…have fun with this. It might save you…
NJ Lyon almost 12 years ago
What’s wrong with communism?The Russians screwed it up and and gave Marxism a bad name, but communism isn’t bad.
legoguy77 over 11 years ago
I haven’t looked into it deeply, but two things: If america was a communist country, the job problem wouldn’t matter:and two: there would be no rich and no poor.
KZ71 about 10 years ago
Thanks tigre.
mari1313 almost 10 years ago
Communism is a system in which the government owns all property and distributes it equally among citizens. However, in theory, communism if very good, not bad. When practiced, however, the results are usually negative.
Ernest Lemmingway almost 9 years ago
The practice is called socio-capitalism. Mix the best of both worlds into a working whole.
ShpelChekz about 8 years ago
amen
Goat from PBS about 3 years ago
Thanks for proving my point, Rat. What happened to U.S. History?
25tkelley Premium Member over 1 year ago
@marl1313, that comment shows you have not read marx’s actual writings, BUT, if that’s what you think communism is, then you can’t claim that russia, china, or north korea are communist, since property is obviously not equally distributed among all citizens.