Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for May 06, 2012

“Could be worse. Could be raining”

What’s to worry about? It includes a safety net.

I think I understand the gravity of the situation!

Whiley, that sketch of the guy in the crowd, just to the right of the left set of stairs, about a third of the way up, looks just like my great Uncle Mort….uncanny….

A plan that’s good to the last drops.

They were dying to get the agreement done.

At least with the knowledge they have they’ll Rest in Peace

hey, at least with this view we don’t see the mime who’s getting ALL the attention

Looks like it covers everything.

“’Twas not the fall that killed me. ’Twas the sudden stop at the bottom…”

“Still waiting for the recipient”

@Arch Stanton – “Could be worse…”Yeah, they could be walking a highwire over Niagara Falls instead of being inside a tent. One of the “Flying Wallendas” will be doing exactly that, come June. And as anyone who’s been there knows, it’s always “raining” at the falls!Yep… just like Maxwell House: “Good to the Last Drop!”

Someone always has to be the fall guy.

There you go again,, assuming that the average voter is paying attention.

Finally, a clear view of Obamacare

This is a scene right out of Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra.

I was there…they didn’t fall…the crowd booed…the clown ate some children…the crowd gave a standing O. Weird.

Where are you from??? That’s Mr Obama Care you’re talking about. Don’t blame that one on the Republicans…

@Gorbag42 & Dr Fogg

Perhaps if you two lived in Bizzaro World it would. But this is what today’s Republican party wants to give Americans as far as helth care is concerned.

Politicians are the tightrope walkers of the world – they look down and applaud the crowd for being brave!

All of you that believe that the Democratic health care bill is a good thing are in such denial. Show me the good that has come from it. I still cannot afford health care insurance(or healthcare) for myself and my spouse. We are approaching retirement age and are considered poor risks. Is the cost going to come down in 2014? I doubt it, but we will be taxed for not having insurance.

A lot of companies have already dropped health care benefits for their workers. Case in point is my brother-in-law who is 20 years younger than me and fortunately healthy. His wife is not so fortunate in her health and is totally fearful that her teaching assistant job will be eliminated, followed by her insurance.

Now, Republicans, what kind of alternative have you offered?

It has come to the point in this country that “We the People” is just a tired old phrase. We the people should rise up and let our voices be heard. If yours is a racist voice, stifle it until you can learn to love others. If you hate those who disagree with you, learn where the common ground is. As long as we can be swayed by the fast talking extremeists, of either party, we will be a house divided. Come on people, find the common ground. If we are to have a large government, it must truly do its job and help our country instead of dividing it through partisan politics.

Bring the jobs home, bring the troops home and work out new treaties with everyone. Stop sending our tax money overseas until we actually have a surplus. Then make sure whatever help we give will actually benefit us.

Churches, you are the ones who should be responsible for missionary type welfare. However, this would be dependant upon our jobs coming home so we could all pay our share of taxes and tithes.

My thoughts on this are not complete, so forgive me. Any help or positive input will be welcomed. If all you can do is hate, keep it to yourself.

This is probably a stupid thing to get into, but I’m not known for my brains, so here goes…

I receive Medicare. Part D prescription coverage directed by Bush sounded good until it was farmed out to insurance companies to handle. Everyone had to buy prescription insurance. Now I can’t get certain medications because they aren’t covered and have to settle for less effective alternatives. Insurance companies won that one.

When the politicians stripped Obamacare of its “public option” to placate the insurance companies and small government campaigners and ruled that we all need to buy health insurance…guess who won again? Insurance companies. When we hear that many people couldn’t qualify for health insurance before, what changed? Nothing, they will still be denied.

Insurance business is a large outside interest with a ton of money influencing politicians to help them make mega-tons of money. The way we are governed depends on greed.

Sad, but I believe it to be true. Money has totally corrupted the process in this country. No need to blame one party or the other…blame the pervasive greed.

Thx for that. Lol. :—)

Vonne. As usual Wiley hits the nail on its head. You are 100% correct. We have the best congress that money can buy. They sell their votes to whomever gives them the biggest"campaign contribution" what in plain english would be called a bribe. I have been ranting and railing about this for many years. The filch=filthy rich=1%=plutocracy, have taken over the country while we the sheeple have been nodding off on our couches. History always repeats. We now seem to be repeating the late roman era, replete with beer and football instead of bread and circuses. We are, in the words of many, screwed. The filch who own the TV networks know how to manipulate us. The easiest o manipulate are the Authoritarian Followers. Or as I call them, the rethug/teahaddist sheeple. However, it is always good to see another person open their eyes. Remember this. If the rethug/teahaddists win in Nov then they will implement the Ryan budget. Which in fact hands over medicare to insurance companies. The CBO states that it will not only make you pay $6,000 out of pocket the first year, that amount will increase until medicare is no more. They also want to remake Social Security into a private investment account. Which will mean that only the wall street bankers will profit, while the next recession/depression will mean that the individual retirement account will be wiped out. Shades of the 1920s. The “golden age”

I hate people who hijack a great-for-a-laugh comic strip & use it as a base for their personal rants!

What the “public” has yet to awake to is the fact that everything the Republicans have done to “privatize” since Reagan, has grabbed the public, and taxpayer, by the “privates” and cut deep. More than 90% of their “contracting” has doubled, or more the cost to the taxpayer, but gee, that means their friends’ profits have also elevated, while the “job elevator” headed for the basement.

At least the high wire folks aren’t getting shot at as part of THEIR act to please the audience.

i remember the Flying Wallendas. short flight.

the perfect Republican health and retirement plan…..

Reading all of these comments, all I can say is that sometimes I’m glad I’m Canadian. In fact about the only time I’m not glad I’m Canadian is when the start taking applications for a new season of “The Amazing Race.”

Republicans? Uh, unless I’m color blind, one of the clowns is blue and the other one is red. That would cover Dems and Reps, both.

nail on the head.

Oh, for crying out loud! It’s a COMIC! There is no more political statement here than there is in your morning cup of coffee.

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At least they dug the plots and got the headstones. Seen the prices for those lately? It’s killing me!

Or they could buy their own bloody insurance. Or they might . . . Oh never mind. Personal responsibility is just sooo passe’.

Balanced on a wire…To hire or fire?…To fall is to flop…The ground the hard stop…

But the net is not there…Whether foul or fair…So to the end with a thud…And push a daisy to bud…

this looks and sounds familar.

Politicians are not clowns. Clowns bring joy and happiness.

Clowns regard the comparison as an insult.

Why didn’t I think of that?

Which might explain why some people are frightened by clowns…

Get an education or develop a skill, you’ll be fine. Depend on the gov’t to take care of you, …