Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for June 15, 2016

All we need to do is get the steel and construction companies, and related labor unions to donate a ton of money to Congress-Man, to get his “attention.”

Don’t want to start that “fixin’ important things” stuff. Might wind up with people employed.

It will take people getting killed from bridge collapses, sewer cave-ins, etc. for these public servants to make noises about fixing things. That’s the only time we get things fixed in this state.

Another Moment of Silence for this Unforeseeable Tragedy from Congress-Man®!

Only congress can fund a bridge repair, the president has no power to do that….Only the people in the House can spend money, all the Senate has to do is rubber stamp it….,..Sure, they haven’t tried to keep bridges from falling down and killing whole bunches of our citizens…So what? They can always blameTo republicans, most other people are only useful as statistics and examples to prove what ever sadistic point they are trying to make at any given time…. That wasn’t their business, their intent or desire…Their only desire was to do nothing and blame it on a real solid American, President Obama (Satan, to republicans.), Remember, doing nothing is an active verb. Buy doing nothing, republicans have caused the deaths of thousands of Americans just, so they could blame it on Obama. Thanks republicans Luv Ya!

This series is delightfully, sly…Thank you Wiley…Great time to have a job like yours, eh?…I know you’ll do us, and you, proud….Rock on Dude….

No love for Congress-man? It’s a sad state of affairs. But as voters we want these things, we like bridges, roads, police and schools. But we demand they maintain these things without making us pay taxes. If the poor bu- elected official points this out, he’s replaced by someone who’ll promise to do more with less.

Sorry. We spent the money appropriated for maintaining the nation on our efforts to improve the nation. So we will need more money. And some of the improvements will also need upkeep, but we’re already committing that money to something else, so buckle up, Buttercup. The ride will necessarily get bumpy so it turns your pockets upside down. And stop complaining. You were wild about the idea of spending our infrastructure money on other stuff before.

Most roadwork is funded through state and local taxes and, therefore, is the purview of state and local governments. Congress, ie the Federal government, is only responsible for the Interstate Highway System.

In other words, you’re harping on the wrong level of government on this one.

“the Senate of the U.S. no longer has any resemblance to that August assembly which provoked the admiration of the Tocquevilles (Alexis de Tocqueville, author of “Democracy in America,” 1835). It would be no use looking for the foremost men of the nation there; neither statesmen nor orators are to be found in it. The body is filled with men of mediocre or no political intelligence, some of whom, extremely wealthy, multi-millionaires, look on the Senatorial dignity as a title for ennobling their well or ill-gotten riches and with crack wirepullers and party bosses who find the Senate a convenient base of operations for their intrigues and designs on the public interest.” This paragraph was written in 1902.

If you built it right the first time, you wouldn’t need to “maintain” it so often.

We can’t worry about minor things like bridges when we have to build a wall, buy more weapons and give the poor rich people more tax cuts.

Infrastructure is for losers. Real Americans fly private jets.

Years ago my younger sister drove across the i35w bridge in Minneapolis a minute or 2 before it collapsed.

Term limits.

Or, we could put another $900 billion into “shovel ready” jobs that made it to union pension funds.

Might start by impeaching the bum. Like his wanna me counterparts seeking an office; he has not the vaguest idea what the word infrastructure even means.

Building new stuff is “sexy”; maintaining old stuff gets no brownie points at all.

As one who first turns to the Comics each day, especially to Non Sequitur, I find Congress-Man to be an outstanding editorial in the most compact, lucid form! Keep up the great work!

You gotta quit making Congress look sooo Good!!!!

Gorbag42Page count is irrelevant. Laws are double-spaced with such wide margins all around that the space devoted to actual law is little larger than that of a pocket paperback..wiatrIt will take more than that. There is a long history fatal accidents involving bridge collapse, pipeline breaks, and similar infrastructure failure, and yet nothing is done about it. We must rediscover our humanity, that our fellow humans are more important than accumulating money, before anything will ever be done.

Never vote for an incumbent. They don’t deserve the job security.

And term limits don’t help. They just promote even more the “looking for my next job” mindset that most who go into politics have.

And that bridge…it’s a little older.

JamesThe military/industrial rulers have an unlimited supply of puppets to put in office; the People have only the occasional few. I would put up with the occasional Gormert in exchange for Sam Rayburn, Wright Patman, Henry B. Gonzalez safeguarding and educating those in my state. Term limits won’t bring back those giants of the past, but they would eliminate the Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and Al Franken of the present.

If you want to rid the government of the M/I complex, WHY are you wanting to get rid of Warren, Bernie, etc.?Start with Mitch, Ryan, Issa, etc., who never met a Defense spending bill they didn’t like.Until it comes to the VA, then it’s a problem. They won’t “honor” our veterans to give the VA the money it needs, then they bitch about why they can’t “fix” things!