Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for June 23, 2021

The Far Side had a strip like this, with the birds mentioning Hitchcock’s film before going toward their target on the park bench.

This could easily turn into a “trickle down” situation.

I’ve gotten pretty good at predicting how my friend the economist will approach issues that we end up discussing in the context of our charitable organization.

The bird in the tree is wondering where he should aim.

What’s the difference between an economist and someone who predicts the future by fondling goat guts?

A college degree….

I hope he has a rain slicker. About that colour of the bag. Birds have a surprising good aim.

Birds like to jettison excess baggage on takeoff

Yup, it’s a boom market for hiring. But that don’t mean all companies pay very well or treat the employees very well. The management of the company I just left said it was the first time in the company’s 75 year history they’ve had to put a banner on the side of the building advertising job vacancies. Meanwhile, wages stay the same and the management just keeps getting worse. 3 people including myself left in less than 2 weeks’ time. 2 people said they were actively going on job interviews, 2 others said they started looking at want ads, and 1 other said on multiple occasions he was about ready to leave.

That’s right, they have no excuse – EXCEPT the they are BIRDS!

Trying to teach bird brains the basics of Keynesian economics – yet again?? Good luck with that …

Yay! 26 states now agree to stopping the ‘free’ unemployment checks!

Milton Friedman after he retired?

Naw, don’t pan it off on economists as this garbage is spouted out by the GOP. Oh, if we had terrible seen the light of day in the United decision.

And if the “trickle down” is purple rain, see your physician.

He has created the bird welfare system, the bums come to him for crumbs.

It’s amazing how many deaf, dumb, and blind kids, still manage to reply here.(Metaphorically, not the truly disabled.)

It’s a boom market all right, but no one wants to work when they can sit on their butt and collect unemployment.

Time for a bill from the Democrats in Congress to give all pigeons 300 bags of popcorn per month. Poor pigeons!

It’s like the PPP loans. While many small sparrows were helped there were a lot of fat vultures.

Maybe this could be one insight into Trickle Down economics. There is the old white man that was given a big hand out, which he is getting fat off of. All the “white” peons get crumbs. I suspect the sandwich is either turkey or chicken, representing the non-white birds, sacrificed for the pleasure of the old white man.

Naw, I think it is just a grumpy old man sitting on a bench trying to eat his sandwich.

I guess he is not familiar with Alfred Hitchcock’s catalog … Things can go to “the birds”, without any warning.

An economics professor I had in college actually said, “People who cannot afford food and shelter are not entitled to them.” That was the day I dropped out of business school.

They all lost their Jobs to a bunch of South American Illegal Immigrant Pigeons.

Ehhh, you mean Republican governors.

What’s trickling down and where??

Bird’s diets do not include bread unless humans feed them it.

Now that COVID is winding down but the unemployment benefits are still in place, nobody wants to go back to work!

I think the birds should just go Alfred Hitchcock on him.

A long time ago, I read a piece about cinematic conventions of contrived storytelling. I don’t remember much of it, but it did include the French Bread Rule. In movies or television, at least those with a California setting, any bag of groceries must include a projecting baguette and/or bunch of celery. Wiley or his old-fashioned protagonist cleaves to tradition.

One thing Capitalism is efficient at is the Proliferation of BS Corporate Gig Economy Jobs Advertisements that give the illusion of a labor shortage.