JumpStart by Robb Armstrong for February 13, 2013

Pay attention there, sonny.

They got 5 kids. They can’t spend like they’re single.

I think they only have 4 kids, unless they miscalculated on that too.

They have four. The parents need to go for financial counseling. I would like to eliminate out CC debt. I am trying to get a job for extra income, husband’s retirement pension does not get it. We are not spenders either.

Pop has been hit up for money for a long time. I recall posting a comic on my office bulletin board in the early 90’s showing Frank with Joe (and Marcy?) asking Frank for money. I think at one point he asks them, “Why are you looking at me like that?” It shows him with light-bulb-ringed signs surrounding him, saying something like, “First National Bank of Pop,” “No interest charged,” “Open 24/7.” Later, I put up a cartoon of Pop and his wife standing proudly by Joe (?), who is in a cap and gown. Frank is wearing a barrel, to show that he’s broke from paying Joe’s tuition. I had my husband paste a copy of our younger daughter’s face on the student, as she had recently graduated.