Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for June 22, 2015
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Transcript:
Man in suit: Hey...we wanted budget cuts, we got budget cuts. Sign reads: Walk, don't walk...do whatever you want. You're on your own. Trashcan: Pick up your own trash.
The people making the cuts are usually the ones who intend to prove that any cuts are detrimental to the public, and carefully constructed to be so while extravagant waste continues unseen elsewhere. No that there have ever been any cuts, of course. The government constantly maintains an inflationary budget increase of at least ten percent, which is apparently just short of your own earnings increase in some perfected world. Any slowing down of the inflationary cycle led by government waste is called a Draconian Cut, as all the world is a stage and we are but groundlings, to be manipulated by the machinations of the author and his minions upon the stage.