The Big Picture

April

I’m back after a nice relaxing week off, during which I cursed my utter lack of prescience in planning to be off during a week in which right-wingers were out in force wearing silly wigs, costumes and hats with teabags duct taped to their brims. I accidentally bore witness to one of these “Tea Parties” and saw many signs displaying spectacular displays of mental agility. One of my favorites read something like “cut taxes, not defense spending.” The participants appeared to be protesting – strangely – the continuation of Bush’s deficit spending and bank-bailout policies. It’s not insane to assume that most of the protesters don’t make over 250k a year. I wonder if they even know (or care) that they are all getting a tax cut this year.

Ahhh. It’s good to be back.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, April 21st, 2009 at 10:38 am by Matt Davies.
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4 Responses to “The Big Picture”

Hugh Jass April 21st, 2009 at 1:04 pm
Why let facts get in the way of a clever sign and silly costume?
bashea April 21st, 2009 at 1:44 pm
Matt:

How about a little warning before you disappear like that? With all the economic problems and lay-offs we’re having, it worries me when new cartoons stop appearing.

In other words, you’re my comic respite from this mess, so stop messing with my head.

_Barry

PS: Does a bigger ocean mean more fish for us?
Matt April 21st, 2009 at 10:27 pm
It’s easy to pick on those that support spending and tax cuts, but I would argue those are the uninformed minority at these events. Most understand that Bush’s deficit spending was reckless in the same sense as Obama’s. They are waking up to these double-speakers who tow the party line. Don’t believe me? Look at how they treated Congressman Gresham Barrett® http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QsY2r7HbTM
AJ April 30th, 2009 at 2:48 pm
yeah, actually tax cuts yield MORE revenue since the tax base expands via more job creation and less people looking to shield income due to highly confiscatory rates. It’s called the Laffer curve and is rock solid economics. But why let facts stand in the way of ad homminem attacks against sterotypical right-wing strawmen fabricated by the wack-job left-wing, of which you are apparently a proud member?

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