Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for March 08, 2013

Ah, executive greed almost reared it’s ugly head !

Since greed has been the dominant topic this week, I thought I might share this from a post on FaceBook.

Only when the last tree is cut, only when the last river is polluted, only when the last fish is caught, will they realize that you can’t eat money. –Native American proverb

I was moved by this. Such a simple, yet, powerful thought.

BCNU

There will be no education if nobody gets paid. No profit, no gain. Profit is the driver of innovation.

Better hurry – the student loan racket is in a bubble, defaults climbing, and may come apart soon.

Remind me, how is Zipper currently getting his fees and living costs met? Is this the beginning of an arc that sees him having to go out and actually earn a living…?!

I resent that part of military intelligence. Under hashish, I used to come up with some very intelligent intelligence

I wonder if GBT has anything about the sequester in the works?

Sorry, Mr. Trudeau: you’re at least a decade behind on this all-too-true story line.

@DoughfootPerfect competition is better than corporate collusion, and free markets are better than restricted ones, but what we really need is a completely restructured form of capitalism, one that is under the inviolate control of government. However, I see little hope, and only when the last tree is cut, the last river polluted and the last fish caught will we realize the enormity of the crime that we have committed against ourselves and nature.

no way to be funny. would have to get “troll-y” up in this line. ain’t gunn duit.

masterskrain said, about 10 hours ago

So, President King has finally sold out! A “Whopping Pittance”. Another great oxymoron to add to the list,

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Here is another jewel to add to the oxymoron list.It’s a keeper.

“inviolate control of government. "

Here’s a favorite quotation from a favorite “Founding Father”: Benjamin Franklin. And this one is genuine. Unlike most of the fabricated or edited ones you see on the internet and on bumperstickers: “The Remissness of our People in Paying Taxes is highly blameable; the Unwillingness to pay them is still more so. I see, in some Resolutions of Town Meetings, a Remonstrance against giving Congress a Power to take, as they call it, the People’s Money out of their Pockets, tho’ only to pay the Interest and Principal of Debts duly contracted. They seem to mistake the Point. Money, justly due from the People, is their Creditors’ Money, and no longer the Money of the People, who, if they withold it, should be compell’d to pay by some Law. “All Property, indeed, except the Savage’s temporary Cabin, his Bow, his Matchcoat, and other little Acquisitions, absolutely necessary for his Subsistence, seems to me to be the Creature of public Convention. Hence the Public has the Right of Regulating Descents, and all other Conveyances of Property, and even of limiting the Quantity and the Uses of it. All the Property that is necessary to a Man, for the Conservation of the Individual and the Propagation of the Species, is his natural Right, which none can justly deprive him of: But all Property superfluous to such purposes is the Property of the Publick, who, by their Laws, have created it, and who may therefore by other Laws dispose of it, whenever the Welfare of the Publick shall demand such Disposition. He that does not like civil Society on these Terms, let him retire and live among Savages. He can have no right to the benefits of Society, who will not pay his Club towards the Support of it. “ — Benjamin Franklin in a letter to Robert Morris, December 25, 1783.

Good catch, flunky, good catch.

“Military Intelligence” is not an oxymoron.“Military Justice” maybe. But not “Military Intelligence.”

“Are we to assume from your statement that the great innovators had their hands on great heaps of other people’s money?”Only if we were ignorant of history. Most of the great inventors did have a wealthy supporter or two, but making a profit was rarely on either one’s mind. The innovator got to do what he loved, the philanthropist got to talk about how he advanced science.

The reply button doesn’t seem to be working. Okay. Skepti Cal says “Now let is not confuse philanthropists” and investors I suppose “with tax payers. The former is a volunteer and the latter is a draftee.” This is only true if taxpayers who shirk or shrug off citizenship, and only the tax and other laws to avoid punishment, rather than because it is their responsibility as citizens: their freedom dues and duties, so to speak. Not that it is a moral duty to obey all laws simply because they are laws: quite the contrary. But laws gain their legitimacy from the consent of the governed. When you obey them, you give your consent to them and acknowledge their legitimacy. You can complain that they ought to be different, but if you claim they are wrong, you ought not to obey them and you ought to accept the penalty.

The senators couldn’t bring up the subject, or they didn’t want to appear as bad guests?

@ensiform ** DavyG is correct about the hyphens. In grammar, the phrase “first-grade-level” is called an “adjectival compound.” I would add, too, that even if there were a good reason for correcting a tiny typo, there is never any good reason for first-grade-level name-calling. Let’s be nice here!

Jumbo shrimp has never been an oxymoron because the jumbo shrimp is large relative to normal sized shrimp.