Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for November 04, 2012
November 03, 2012
November 05, 2012
Transcript:
Mitt Romney: America-- a country of the people, by the people and for a few... a country where anyone who prepped can grow up to be a job-creator! And in the day ahead I plan to reintroduce myself to voters! Alex: Sorry, you're toast. Goodbye. You know, it just amazes me that only a few years after the economy was brought to its knees by a gang of predatory Wall Street plutocrats that the GOP would nominate a predatory Wall Street plutocrat! Do they think we don't remember who screwed us over and hollowed out the middle class? People just like Romney! Ms. Deluca: When was this? Toggle: S-see? Don't get... cocky! Alex: Dear God.
It wasn’t PLUTOcrats that brought the economy to its knees; it was BUREAUcrats. Nearly a century of Fed manipulation of the money supply; half a century of government policy first encouraging home-ownership, then forcing it, creating the housing bubble; OVER-regulation (yes, I said OVER) of the financial sector in ways that encouraged bad decisions and risky investing. (The idea that it was DE-regulation that caused this mess is a leftist myth. Regulation exploded under Bush II.)
This election is about one side that at least leans toward limited government and another side that longs for unlimited government. Didn’t the world learn ANYTHING from the 20th century?