Grand Avenue by Mike Thompson for November 19, 2011
November 18, 2011
November 20, 2011
Transcript:
BILLS Grandma: I'm retired and scraping to get by on a fixed income. Grandma: It used to be pretty standard for people to enjoy their golden years. Grandma: I'm calling for a return to the gold standard! Michael: She's been watching those cable news shows again, hasn't she?
spamster almost 13 years ago
Theres not enough gold in the world honey. sorry
mfboyd almost 13 years ago
when was it standard for people to enjoy their golden years?
3hourtour Premium Member almost 13 years ago
..gold is way over priced…
hippogriff almost 13 years ago
“Imagine a yardstick that was 3’ long in 1789, 19 1/2” in 1809, 4’ in 1849, 38 1/2" in 1872, and 4’3.9" today [early 1890s]. What a wonderful thing for measuring cloth. Yet we measure our debts and credits with a method no more accurate." Stephen McLallin, editor of The Advocate, Populist news mag, against continuing the gold standard.
i_am_the_jam almost 13 years ago
It doesn’t help that you’re raising 2 kids, Grandma…
Comic Minister Premium Member almost 13 years ago
I’m afraid she has Mike. But at least she has her glasses put on correctly!
joegeethree almost 13 years ago
what happened to the parents?
hippogriff almost 13 years ago
Psycho: It was Reagan’s repeal of the New Deal that let Wall Street manipulate paper more easily than gold. Or maybe turning the economy over to a consortium of private commercial banks called the “Federal” Reserve; Wilson nominated Louis Brandeis to the Supreme Court to have at least one anti-gold bug member to declare it unconstitutional, but no one ever brought a case.
robert423elliott about 1 year ago
hippogriff…..President Wilson? Oh yeah, we all remember those teens! The 19teens-1920’s!———————————mfboyd…..I’m enjoying my golden years just fine. I’ve been retired for 18 years! I retired at 58 years old.——————————i_am_the_jam…..Those two kids should be a help. She would get her social security check plus two more off the kids. Early strips said that their parents got killed in a car wreck so they would draw off their parents not Kate. And I bet that each of their checks would be equal to or more than hers! And as their legal guardian the checks would come to her until the kids turned 18.