Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for April 05, 2013

Plan B is always better…

That was fast.

The belt buckle I’m wearing, except without the colored finish:

Oh….and mine is brass. I didn’t realize that one is pewter.

I also had some Rocky Mountain Road ice cream tonight.

Easily replaced unskilled workers cannot strike in the depths of a recession with 18% unemployment. They will just get fired and be replaced by one of the thousands of workers who would love to have an income, any income.

Unskilled, unmotivated and uneducated people need high paying jobs too.

way to go Dems, I’m so proud of you. Colorado is now a laughing stock. Pot heads coming here now, as well as Pres and Liar in Chief to commend us in our gun control legislation – I’m so proud to be a Coloradan – - – NOT!!!!

90% of food borne illness is traced back to restaurant workers. Wow.

Hey Guard SGT. How do you feel about your party’s new philosophy? Gun control laws lead to beastiality. Takes quite an imagination to come up with that one.

The 90% comment is so patently wrong and dangerous – do we want the health police prosecuting our restaurant workers for colds, flu, HIV, whatever – that I predict we will have the FIRST retraction in Doonesbury history.

So Zipper is finally going to graduate? I hope GBT finally drops Walden from the strip. That joke has run it’s course.

It is better for the restaurant business (and the local vicinity) that he got canned.

As an ennobled British Lord and lottery winner, does he even need the money?

“Unskilled, unmotivated and uneducated people need high paying jobs too.”.I guess that explains all the overpaid republicans.

With Unemployment !

This may be a bad career move for a slacker. In today’s Obama America, industrious deadbeats, assisted by the myriad of Cloward-Piven Community Organizers, soon to be designated as “Navigators,” are better off working at McWhatever so long as they don’t make any more than $29K. This keeps them eligible for free stuff such as Section 8 housing, Food Stamp debit card, cell telephone and the IRS giving them a refund for taxes they didn’t pay in the first place all at the expense of those of us who pay our own way. The bottom line is you can live at the $60K level like the fools who actually work for that sum without having to pay a nickel in taxes. Is this a great country or what? As long as it lasts of course.

I don’t think the idea that a lot of illness can be spread by sick food servers really sounds all that hard to believe. If someone has the flu and comes in to serve you soup or whatever, it is quite possible for germs to be spread. As to the numbers, I am sure they have to be approximate, but what if they are only 20% instead of 90%? 20% is still a high risk when you think about possibly being exposed to the flu or other illness.

My guess is that most illnesses are caused by E. coli and are due to inadequate washing of hands. Colds and the flu would be transmitted by sneezing and coughing servers but how would one manage to transmit HIV from restaurant workers to customers in the course of preparing and serving food?

Having some sort of rights for sick workers is obviously important for everyone. I guess it is an acceptable to risk for some to have vermin in their food too, the government often has to step in when there is a pest problem. Personally, I am glad somebody does step in when there is such a problem. People often seem to need a little guidance in such cases.

Ahh….. checked your facts. The 90% is the fact that food service employees 90% do not have paid sick time. If your going to try to use facts please don’t distort them for your purposes.

Really? Then why is the nation going further and further LEFT?

I’m sick, Colorado, send me some medicine.

For what it’s worth the UK minimum wage works out at $9.50 if you are 21+. The average UK worker on minimum wage does a 52 hour week.

Hello to all my Coloradans on here. If your in Downtown Denver it will be a mess Rockies opened today

You are so right Clark Kent

South High 87

Yes, such a shame that people with morals and standards moved in

Haven’t seen the report that there has been no heat increase in the last decade eh? Talk about distorting facts to suit what you want to happen:Everyone a veggie with an iphone and living off the govt

Don’t forget the UNION members that would rather kill an industry than take a realistic wage

You take a comic strip WAY TOO seriously, you are unemployed aren’t you?

Guard SGT is correct!

I’m not sure that food-borne illness can so easily be thrown back on the issue of so few paid sick days for restaurant workers. Yes, they should receive more, but if a restaurant worker knowingly works when s/he is ill, and risks infecting others, that’s on him/her, is it not? Personal responsibility seems to be the issue here.

…“so few paid sick day…” The number is NONE; NO sick days.

That’s about as few as you can get.

Zonker, you would love Colorado.

The global warning issue is pure red herring. It’s totally irrelevant. If we don’t clean up the environment we are all screwed. As long as you can be kept focused on that totally specious argument, we ALL lose.

Nooo! You can’t break your streak now!You’ve posted here every day (I think) since November . . . you’re the “Joe Dimagggio of Benghazi posting”!!

Some posters here believe by calling other posters names and or repeating the same statements without any evidence somehow makes what they are saying factually correct. News for you, that behavior doesn’t make smarter or right. It just lets the world know what a bunch of bigoted, immature, self-absorbed fools you are.

About the Environment: growing up in NYC, you could literally see the smog and soot envelope the city. Most of the apartment building used to burn their garbage in incinerators. In the 1970s this was outlawed. It was also around this time that leaded gasoline was banned. Within a couple of years, you could literally see the skies clear up.I have travelled to countries that do not have strict environmental rules. You can see air pollution so thick that it looks like a mist.Countries can make environmental rules and still prosper. In the 1950s, London was the most polluted city in the world. As Londoners will tell you, London doesn’t have fog, that was smog. But London cleaned up its act, and is still one of the economic centers of the world. Then Mexico City became the most polluted city in the world, followed by Dehli. Now the most polluted cities in the world are in China. Many of these developing countries equate automobiles with economic prosperity but do not put in place rules about emissions that most of the developed world have.Pressure has to be put on these countries. In Dehli, the Indian Supreme Court ordered all mass transit to carbon free. The buses and taxis run on natural gas. London has a congestion charge. Please visit these cities. They are more vibrant and prosperous than anytime in their history.If you want to see what a real leftist society does, look at Sweden. They recycle 96% of their garbage and use it to heat their homes. Down side is, they have run out of garbage. They now have to import it from Norway:

http://m.mnn.com/lifestyle/recycling/blogs/sweden-runs-out-of-garbage-forced-to-import-from-norway

Well, enlighten us then. What is it the 1% do, in your mind, which is so productive for the country.

Sending as many family wage jobs as they can overseas isn’t doing us a lot of good, that I can see.

Parking every dime they can skim off every business they lay their hands on in off shore bank accounts is keeping that money OUT of the economy, which also doesn’t seem overly constructive.

What exactly does that leave? Those are the primary problems the country is facing, has been facing for decades, apart from a few small upticks here and there which the GOP makes extravagant claims for and claims credit for, though those upticks rarely have happened on their watch.

What am I missing???

Apparently you don’t understand the difference between, say, capitalism and fascism, or communism and liberalism, or any other of the other political terms you bandy about in such cavalier fashion.

Dictionaries are pretty easy to find online, and cheap to buy on the street. I recommend you look those terms up.

@montessoriteacher

I doubt anyone knows the correct figure. Employees won’t admit to working sick, and employers won’t admit to firing employees who “take too much time off”.

To keep things from being too neat, you have to factor in all the young people who think they can take a job and work only when they feel like it.

The country is a mess, and it’s a Bi-partisan mess all the way.

[I originally posted this from my Kindle, and like all those damn devices, it is CERTAIN it knows better than you do what you want to say. Sorry for any confusion.]

One has to remember that the cases they were talking about were limited to food-borne illnesses. And these were also the cases which were reported, so that is where the numbers come from. I don’t think it is all that tough to think that a large number of these reported food-borne illnesses could be tracked back to sick food servers.

Talk about going with the flow!

http://newyork.grubstreet.com/2013/01/foodborne-illness-outbreaks-based-on-low-paying-jobs.html

Yes, right up there with your argument that we can’t see the truth because we are blind. We DO do our research, we do examine FACTS rather than the blatherings of Bill O’Reilly, Rush Limpdick or Sean Hannity (or worse, the Bible) Reminds me how many Republicans have said their party won’t attract smart people, and how education makes people Democrats. GOP, party of Stupid.

Obama’s policies mirror much of what Reagan did, and many are adoptions of recent GOP proposals, This is a fact. The ONLY reason the GOP opposes his policies is to oppose him, no matter what he does. He IS acting Right of Center, but the GOP (Grumpy Old Perverts) White MAN only Party cannot stand that a black man is in the White House. I’d dearly LOVE to see a TRUE Leftist government.

Neither Russia nor China are true Left Wing governments. Your argument is built on lies.

Benghazi has been, and always will be, a Fox Red Herring. We are tired of hearing the whining about Benghazi, when the Right Wingnuts didn’t seem to care about the embassy attacks and 33 killed while Bush was president.And no, marriage equality is not the most important thing in politics, the GOP’s constant blocking of any measure that would create JOBS is.