Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for July 13, 2016

Just claim amnesia until the whole thing blows over.

Too late for Spain?

Definitely Argentina-level crisis.

But she caught me with Ivan Boesky on the counter

(Wasn’t me)Saw me banging with Ivan Boesky on the sofa (Wasn’t me)I even had her Ivan Boesky in the shower (Wasn’t me)She even caught me with Ivan Boesky on camera (Wasn’t me).She saw the marks from Ivan Boesky on my shoulder (Wasn’t me)Heard the words that I told her Ivan Boesky (Wasn’t me)Heard the screaming from Ivan Boesky getting louder (Wasn’t me)She stayed until it was over with Ivan Boesky

Ahem, Mr. Slackmeyer. I believe the jig is, as they say, up.

Remember, dum spelled backwards is mud!

Nowadays, Gretchen, after realizing she screwed up and was going to get fired, would call the SEC and try to become a whistleblower to save her job.

LameRandomName,

The Founding Fathers opted for limited government (Jeffersonian) but with a strong central authority (Hamiltonian). How did they do this? By installing the famous “checks and balances” among the three branches of government. THAT’S what Limited Government means…. not Small Government.

The Founding Fathers had no illusions about the impulses of states to do their own thing (see: Secession), thus they empowered the federal government to override those impulses with powers outlined in the 7 Articles of the Constitution (see: Civil War).

The Founding Fathers were not “libertarians.” They knew the country would evolve and so wrote the Constitution to guard against the very acts that caused states to seize power away from the federal government and give it to themselves (thus weakening the country and opening it up to conquest by Great Britain, France or even Spain). They wrote into the Constitution the authority for the federal government to wrest those powers back, by force if necessary. Thus, the Civil War.

Taxes was another example. States could levy taxes amongst themselves as they will, even taxing those doing commerce across state lines. Since federal income taxes had to be apportioned equitably, income taxes were declared Unconstitutional. However, the Founding Fathers wrote into the Constitution the means to amend it. So Congress followed the rule and passed to the states a Constitutional Amendment to make federal income taxes constitutional, which the states ratified – all according to the Constitution’s rules.

Another example: slavery. Remember the Emancipation Proclamation? It freed slaves only in the “States in Rebellion,” not the slave states still in the Union: Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, and Delaware. Why? Because the Dred Scott decision of the Supreme Court declared slavery as Constitutional, thus permitting slavery in any state. Dred Scott was still the law of the land when Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. The 13th Amendment outlawed slavery by making slavery unconstitutional.

Brilliant system! Hats off to those Founding Fathers!!

If only we had politicians like them today.

When government is that limited, unchecked commercial enterprise becomes the government. Yeah, I want my life dictated by a multinational conglomerate, please!

Off the topic some more, today’s PVP seems like a 2016 version of Mr. Davenport’s passing.

If the goverment did take care of the infrastructure, I wouldn’t mind. When our money goes to fund never ending wars and foriegn aid wasn’t handed out to make countries’ leaders accept the US and all the multinational corporations, I think we all have a legitament complaint.

Some of us, those that have more than a superficial grasp of reality, enjoy reading what other people have to say – even if we don’t agree with them.

The whole idea of a comment section is to exchange thoughts and ideas in an intelligent fashion.

Since this particular cartoon has always had a political/social satirical slant, it is apropos for the comments to reflect that.

I am against personal attacks, juvenile retorts, and the unnecessary, illiterate and inarticulate who must resort to name calling – but aside from those things, I believe everyone is entitled to express themselves freely here and on other comic sites.

You are not obligated to read any of them.

@rlcooke said,@LameRandomName“Well, if you want to do without Grand Coulee Dam, Hoover Dam, the Tennessee Valley Authority, the interstate highway system, the Internet, electricity on every farm in America, SURE let’s reduce government.”.Assumes all violate the limited powers of the federal government and would not exist without same..Interstate Highway system was justified based on national defense — moving troops and equipment rapidly as needed, civil defense — it originally included shelters as part of on-ramps and off-ramps to protect the civilian population in case of attack, tornado, wild fires, floods, earthquake (until Kennedy promised not to protect us under the ABM treaty) and could have been justified on authorization to establish postal roads — since much mail still currently travels that route, all Constitutionally authorized .Internet developed under defense contract as were computers and integrated circuits..Electrification as reduction of waterborne diseases and repayment of expense of dams involved in flood control, interstate commerce..In fact, national healthcare could be justified under national defense if it included work to protect against bioweapons attack.