Cartoon for October 26, 2009
This cartoon was inspired by seeing one of these signs in San Francisco--at the site of a standard roadside maintenance/pothole patching project.
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11 Comments:
Maybe non-sequitir, but still reminds me of the statement of Michael Douglas' character, Bill Foster, in the movie, "Falling Down," when he asks a street construction worker what's wrong with the street.
"Pardon me, but that's bullshit. You see, I don't think anything's wrong with the street. I think you're just trying to justify your inflated budgets! I know how it works. If you don't spend the projected amount this year, you don't get the same amount next year. Now, I want you to admit, THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH THE STREET!"
In the current climate, having the government repair potholes is the same as radical socialism. Or is it fascism? Pick one. Or both.
Hey Ted,
This is really funny. For all the talk about stimulus, recovery, etc. etc. etc....things aren't actually getting better. The US is still falling apart, because even the 'good' things that are coming are insignificantly small. We're not going to actually get substantive change until we reframe the question: Who's NOT hurting financially, and why? Then go after a redistribution of wealth because 'market justification' is just the latest rationale for inequality of human rights.
We say "well, if you can pay for it yourself, you have the right to buy it".....that's a moral argument about the justification of wealth. There are other justifications, like nobility, title, citizenship.
But it all really comes back to the same thing: because we can (or can't). This is why your "Yes We Can....but we probably won't" cartoon was the single funniest cartoon I've ever seen you produce.
Of course we can. Leonard Cohen said it the best....Everybody knows that the dice are loaded, everybody rolls with their fingers crossed. We all know the game is rigged and that it's not right. We talk ourselves into why it's OK.
If only it were pot holes. Here are some gems brought to you by your precious federal government:
$8k credit to purchase golf carts
Federal economic stimulus cash was handed out to cons behind bars in Bay State prisons after a bureaucratic snafu resulted in $250 checks being sent to some inmates – and now red-faced feds want it back.
A NowHampshire.com investigation reveals almost $37,000 of that money went to a Bedford beauty school that does not grant degrees.
rebates of $50 to $200 for purchases of high-efficiency household appliances.
$14 million that went to Akiachak, Alaska, a town of 659 residents, to replace its airfield. The town has a seaplane and is only 14 nautical miles from the state’s fourth busiest airport.
$15 million went to another Alaskan town, Ouzinkie, that has 167 residents, to replace its gravel runway. The town has a float-plane landing area in its harbor. Barges also provide cargo delivery from Kodiak, 10 miles away.
The stimulus package in New Hampshire has created 50 temp jobs, apparently all of them bureaucrat positions, and none of them permanent. The Office of Economic Stimulus (OES) employs five of those people, and when the governor appoints the director, that position will pay a $110,000 salary, plus benefits.
Roughly speaking, those 50 jobs cost the American taxpayer $8.32 million per position. If we calculate part-time positions as one-half of a full-time job, the cost per full-time job would be $9.9 million. At that rate, the $787 billion Porkulus package should generate about 79,495 jobs across America — or about what we lose today by 1:37 pm in new unemployment claims. And of course, all of those would last only as long as the stimulus money kept coming to fund them
Dude, I'm just getting started.
Bad news statists:
Conservatives continue to outnumber moderates and liberals in the American populace in 2009, confirming a finding that Gallup first noted in June. Forty percent of Americans describe their political views as conservative, 36% as moderate, and 20% as liberal. This marks a shift from 2005 through 2008, when moderates were tied with conservatives as the most prevalent group.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/123854/Conservatives-Maintain-Edge-Top-Ideological-Group.aspx
Mr. Jack, please explain to me how your comment relates in any way to Ted's Oct. 26, 2009 cartoon about putting America to work.
Ted, this one is brilliant in multiple, multiple ways. And it's very much "Rall" humor, virtually nobody else points up stuff like this. It's obvious, yet few others really point this stuff out. This might be (IMO) your best cartoon yet, although there would be a lot of competition on that point. (The adjustable price milkshake still sticks in my mind, as do the NGO's advocating child labor...)
The poll is worthless- Half my extended family supports the public option, higher taxes on the rich, and getting out of both of Iraq and Afghanistan, and every single one of them would tell a pollster they consider their political views to be conservative (mainly because they don't want gays to get married).
Split the polling based on peoples actual views on issues, rather than what they call themselves, and outside of the south you'll find that conservative views are nosediving on every issue in every other part of the country.
But hey, keep on livin in the delusion that you're even remotely relevant. Just makes it asier for those of us that are.
It's fascinating to me what types of information are seen as 'valid' information (described as 'facts') by Ted Rall's local blog troll -I really think there's just one. He smothers everyone with his 'facts' using polls, which are always subject to blatant biases and methodological pitfalls that he clearly doesn't understand. However, the mountains of actual hard evidence of events that occurred and analysis of those events, he doesn't even acknowledge.
Anon 6:24 PM. Yes, he is living in a delusion of being relevant in this world, as are the majority of American right wingers. I, too, have a LOT of friends and family who consider themselves conservative, but in reality this only applies to how they run their personal finances and conduct themselves in their personal lives. Heck by that definition I'm fairly conservative.
Asking if someone is conservative is like asking them if they're depressed. It's a term made up of a bundle of attributes that are generally only understood by people who spend their lives studying that particular phenomena.
Split the polling based on peoples actual views on issues, rather than what they call themselves
Apparently you did not read the breakdown on issues. On 7 out of 7issues independants have become more conservative in their view. On 5 out of 7 issue, Democrats have become more conservative.
Aggie,
Please try reading the methodology of the poll before opening your pie hole. They did not ask "are you conservative?". They asked seven questions to guage movement of Democrats, Republicans and Independent.
Seriously dude, you are an embarrassment to the Lansing educational system. But I'll give you credit for trying over and over. One of thee days, you will use an actual fact (and person anecdotess are not facts)
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