Saturday, May 15, 2010

The Inexplicable Cruelty of Man

It's probably hypocritical to wish the same fate on you, but I just can't help doing so.
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7 comments:

wally said...

Perhaps a bit of hypocrisy would be in order here. This is reprehensible.

5/15/2010 10:17:00 AM
wally said...

The stimulus is a "redistribution plan"? Do you actually read this Day By Day cartoon you post?

5/16/2010 12:14:00 AM
Bob said...

@wally: Certainly I read it. Like any cartoonist, he'll have good strips and bad strips, will make mistakes, and offer occasional imprecisions of language. Today's Day By Day is actually more about government intrusion into every aspect of our lives, and the toilet paper plot mentioned in the strip is not too dissimilar than the already mandated low-capacity toilets that often require you to flush multiple times to dispose of the same waste that one flush from a large-capacity toilet would handle.

As for redistribution of wealth: the President, like most liberals, is on record as believing that there is an unfair distrubution of wealth in the US, and that "fairness" requires that the rich be punished for having too much wealth by having their taxes increased. The President just recently said he believed that there is a point at which an individual has enough wealth, although he didn't name the amount or what was to be done with those greedy bastards that accumulated more than their fair share. I'm sure he'll come up with something, though.

5/16/2010 07:17:00 AM
wally said...

"Imprecisions of language." I like it.

By the way, a significant number of tea party types are equally exercised about the huge paydays the Goldman Sachsers are collecting at our expense.

5/16/2010 03:01:00 PM
Bob said...

@wally:

By the way, a significant number of tea party types are equally exercised about the huge paydays the Goldman Sachsers are collecting at our expense.

True enough, but most Tea Party/Laissez Faire types believe that there shouldn't have been a bailout in the first place, even as far back as Bush's presidency when the bailouts began. They believe that Goldman Sachs should have been allowed to fail, and the executives there punished by market forces and bankruptcy.

5/16/2010 04:10:00 PM
wally said...

All I can say is it's a good thing tea partiers weren't in charge of our economy. As difficult as it was to stomach, the general consensus among economists is that things could have gotten much worse without the bailout.

5/16/2010 04:51:00 PM
Bob said...

@wally: Maybe. We'll not know now, because it was the Road Not Taken, and you don't get a do-over in the real world.

5/16/2010 07:37:00 PM

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