Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for April 21, 2009

Tie his shoelaces together, it worked for Bugs.

Worse yet….the little people are expected to catch the corporate giants when they fall.

Don’t forget to thank them when their fall crushes your life.

Here’s a wild idea: Let the Goliath fall. His absence will free up more resources for everyone else.

Future developement?

Actually wndrwrthg: Bugs didn’t tie the laces together but simply tripped the giant and then ran while the latter was unconscious–and made off with one humoungous carrot.

In this case though a variation on your idea (tie the laces together, and then put a torch–which scales up from a match–in the giant’s shoe) would work really well!

Amputate GM to save the life of the economy. That limb has gangrene anyway… there are other corporate giants not festering quite as badly that could probably be saved.

Reminds me of the third verse of the hymn Standing By A Purpose True.

Many giants great and tall, Stalking through the land, Headlong to the earth would fall, If met by Daniel’s Band!

However, I propose an even worse plan: bail the giants out, and then keep changing the rules after the fact, and interfere in management (as you promised you wouldn’t) because, as we all know, the government is so much better at running things than corporations. Just look at the profit margins of the average farmer. Look at the wonderful rail system we have, especially passenger trains. Look at the profitability of the airline industry. (And that’s just the major ones.)

didn’t mickey mouse playing jack in “jack and the beanstalk” tie the shoelaces together?

Oh my goodness! All of your comments are so hilariously funny! Good job! :-)

I guess that might have been what wndrwrthg was thinking of (but confoozled with the Bugs and Daffy cartoon-analogue), treered. BTW, it’s actually titled Mickey And The Beanstalk.

Actually, I thought Mickey sewed everything together.

My thoughts on the bailouts is they should have held back and let the corporations restructure to what the market requires, then use the bailout money to directly help those that were cut loose to retrain/retool for new opportunities

“Here’s a wild idea: Let the Goliath fall.” And take half the village with him. Wonderful idea.

Instead he fell on you and me!