Daddy is right. NO company should be bailed out. And especially not if the bailout is an excuse for nationalizing major chunks of major industries or for allowing unelected White House “czars” to lord it over businesses. (A more accurate word than “czar” would be “commissar”.) Too big to fail? If they are failing, they shouldn’t be allowed to remain big.
Federal government czars were invented by the Raygun administration. And, as for socializing, I guess Eisenhower did that when he sold out the railroads to the Teamsters and built the Interstate system. And I guess the greatest generation wasn’t funded by the GI Bill that somehow dried up and disappeared when it came to Viet Nam vets.
Oh, and Halliburton didn’t nationalize itself to benefit Cheney’s bank account and electrocute soldiers while providing tainted water. It’s all in your point of view and bogus political preferences.
Boozoo: “Bogus political preferences”? I suppose that means mine are “bogus” but yours are not. I suppose that a belief in limited government dedicated to the protection of rights is bogus. I suppose freedom must be bogus. So what is not bogus? Socialism? Centrally directed economies? Tell me, Boozoo, what’s NOT bogus “in your point of view”?
As for the accumulated errors of the past, they are still errors and can’t be used to justify the present or future.
right on pschearer and Daddy W. Let the strongest survive. Gov’t bailouts just promote more greed among the already greedy. Liberalism, socialism.. just words that mean the same thing.
Piper, I hate to inform you that Warbucks was born in England and therefore inelligible for the office of President. Besides, he wouldn’t take the pay cut.
Jmw raises an interesting point. Because our current President B. Hussein Obama II has not produced his actual certificate of live birth and refuses to allow it to be made public and there is reason to believe through testimony of his paternal grandmother that he was actually born in Kenya to the 18 year old Ann Dunham who was not old enough to pass her citizenship onto her son; we may in point of fact have a person serving as POTUS who is NOT a natural born citizen. With that precedent for president Warbucks may now be eligible.
In Marxism, the revolution is the thing. It doesn’t really matter what system you are tearing down, or what new system you erect in its place. As long as you are destroying and creating anew. A sincere marxist regards government like a flaky copier. When it develops a glitch, you give it a good hard kick to get it working again. Or in Hegelian terms, progress occurs by death and rebirth.
In real life, marxists aren’t sincere, but just want to be the ones to seize power as the old order is brought down.
Every president who has called a private corporation “too big to fail” and bailed them out, is a socialist to some degree. That includes Bush, Obama, and many of their predecessors. Obama distinguishes himself by the rapidity and magnitude of taxpayer money spent bailing out and taking over industries. This makes it difficult to decide whether he is a socialist, on a rapid and risky program to nationalize all industry, or a marxist determined to destroy the country with hyper inflation.
Pretty good observations, Stuart. I’ve always put it that the political spectrum is curved -even circular, on a horizontal plane, with the right & left opposing each other at the fron of the curve, but uniting at the back of the curve where both become radical, spurning any comporomise with infidels, but with the common purpose of tearing down existing governmental & social structures, but for different reasons. They both hope to seize power as the old order is brought down. Daddy Warbuck has always been a Big Monied Republican, but he’d grab “bail out” money (which are really only loans) as quickly as anyone. Fortunately, in the comics. He’s rich enough he doesn’t need it.
margueritem over 15 years ago
Annie is now their mentor.
Annie2 over 15 years ago
Great. Class “How to be a more successful juvenile delinquent 101”, taught by Prof. Annie, is now in session.
LucianDragos over 15 years ago
i told ya mugs days ago… Annie makes for a great mob boss..
also i love how the more ticked off warbucks gets the bigger the plume of some gets off his cigar…
pschearer Premium Member over 15 years ago
Daddy is right. NO company should be bailed out. And especially not if the bailout is an excuse for nationalizing major chunks of major industries or for allowing unelected White House “czars” to lord it over businesses. (A more accurate word than “czar” would be “commissar”.) Too big to fail? If they are failing, they shouldn’t be allowed to remain big.
boozoothatswho over 15 years ago
Federal government czars were invented by the Raygun administration. And, as for socializing, I guess Eisenhower did that when he sold out the railroads to the Teamsters and built the Interstate system. And I guess the greatest generation wasn’t funded by the GI Bill that somehow dried up and disappeared when it came to Viet Nam vets.
Oh, and Halliburton didn’t nationalize itself to benefit Cheney’s bank account and electrocute soldiers while providing tainted water. It’s all in your point of view and bogus political preferences.
pschearer Premium Member over 15 years ago
Boozoo: “Bogus political preferences”? I suppose that means mine are “bogus” but yours are not. I suppose that a belief in limited government dedicated to the protection of rights is bogus. I suppose freedom must be bogus. So what is not bogus? Socialism? Centrally directed economies? Tell me, Boozoo, what’s NOT bogus “in your point of view”?
As for the accumulated errors of the past, they are still errors and can’t be used to justify the present or future.
HankF over 15 years ago
right on pschearer and Daddy W. Let the strongest survive. Gov’t bailouts just promote more greed among the already greedy. Liberalism, socialism.. just words that mean the same thing.
3hourtour Premium Member over 15 years ago
…I never really thought of Annie as a thugg before..
sandystrainer over 15 years ago
This is where Sandy’s trainer tells Annie to name her gang the Bloods.
nyooman over 15 years ago
…and so, Annie’s training among the Hobo Lords of the West finally pays off…
Also: Warbucks in ‘12!
rmax4131 over 15 years ago
The ‘Daddy’ Warbucks / Sarah Palin ticket? What an election that would be!
Somebody should tell Warbucks thought, that they still DO make typewriters.
linsonl over 15 years ago
Warbucks/Palen, huh? Hey, sounds good to me!
jmworacle over 15 years ago
Piper, I hate to inform you that Warbucks was born in England and therefore inelligible for the office of President. Besides, he wouldn’t take the pay cut.
mrprongs over 15 years ago
I’m sure Big D can pay off enough politicians to change the Constitution to allow him to run. There was talks of changing it for Schwarzenegger.
nlnap19 over 15 years ago
Jmw raises an interesting point. Because our current President B. Hussein Obama II has not produced his actual certificate of live birth and refuses to allow it to be made public and there is reason to believe through testimony of his paternal grandmother that he was actually born in Kenya to the 18 year old Ann Dunham who was not old enough to pass her citizenship onto her son; we may in point of fact have a person serving as POTUS who is NOT a natural born citizen. With that precedent for president Warbucks may now be eligible.
stuart over 15 years ago
In Marxism, the revolution is the thing. It doesn’t really matter what system you are tearing down, or what new system you erect in its place. As long as you are destroying and creating anew. A sincere marxist regards government like a flaky copier. When it develops a glitch, you give it a good hard kick to get it working again. Or in Hegelian terms, progress occurs by death and rebirth.
In real life, marxists aren’t sincere, but just want to be the ones to seize power as the old order is brought down.
stuart over 15 years ago
Every president who has called a private corporation “too big to fail” and bailed them out, is a socialist to some degree. That includes Bush, Obama, and many of their predecessors. Obama distinguishes himself by the rapidity and magnitude of taxpayer money spent bailing out and taking over industries. This makes it difficult to decide whether he is a socialist, on a rapid and risky program to nationalize all industry, or a marxist determined to destroy the country with hyper inflation.
jack Nunes Premium Member over 15 years ago
I like it!
ChuckTrent64 over 15 years ago
Pretty good observations, Stuart. I’ve always put it that the political spectrum is curved -even circular, on a horizontal plane, with the right & left opposing each other at the fron of the curve, but uniting at the back of the curve where both become radical, spurning any comporomise with infidels, but with the common purpose of tearing down existing governmental & social structures, but for different reasons. They both hope to seize power as the old order is brought down. Daddy Warbuck has always been a Big Monied Republican, but he’d grab “bail out” money (which are really only loans) as quickly as anyone. Fortunately, in the comics. He’s rich enough he doesn’t need it.
FrancoD over 15 years ago
Gee Whiz!
… all I wanted to do was read the comics.
peace
davidf42 over 6 years ago
Morning, Anniephans!
Maeder did a good job of maintaining Gray’s politics.