Why would anyone want to turned things back over to the very people who created this mess?
They had 8 years, the Democrats have had one, and since they haven’t been able to clean up the mess that was left for them then we should throw them out and bring back the very people who made the mess?
As George Bush once said: “Fool me once, shame on, – shame on \, ah, ah, shame on — well fool me once and , shame on, – No New Taxes!– NO that was father who said that, well (he never did finish the statement)
Good toon. BTW- Reagan(8) +41(4)+ “W” (8) = they had 20 years to screw up the economy. Plus 8 more from the hardly hard line “liberal” Clinton(with a Republican Congress)- so it’s really 28 years of the Republican’s calling it on the economic demise, or balloon.
You folks complaining about GWB - are you unaware that he and McCain tried to rein in things with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac? Seriously, what what do you say about what Chris Dodd and Barney Frank did to the economy by pressuring banks to loan to people that couldn’t pay it back? Bankers may be a lot of things, but why would they make loans to people that couldn’t pay them back without pressure from misguided govt?
I like it. A good example of Toles’ simple suggestive style. And he didn’t need to add the label “bubble” to get his point across. Is the elephant going to slide right off?
The only reason Bush signed most of the spending he did in the last two years was that was the only way he could finance the troops.The dems attached so much to the bills and there was nothing he could do without looking like he wasnt funding his own troops.
Sorry kids…you’re going to have to back to the level of government we had prior to 1903 to get a solid economy back.
We have seen not one but TWO major economic disasters since the government started regulating the economy. The first one happened under minimal regulation. This one happened under heavy regulation (even with some of the regulation peeled back, it is still heavy compared to the ‘30’s).
Now government regulation is starting to catch up to war and famine…two well-known devastators of economies.
It is time to stop taking money out of one part of the economy and putting it into another and claiming it is stimulating the economy. It makes about as much sense as trying to fix an engine leaking oil by draining oil out of the pan, pouring that same oil back into the oil fill, and claiming that you’re adding oil.
Money needs to be put back into the hands of the people who can make this economy work…the middle class and small business owners. When THEY spend the money the economy grows. When the government takes more and more of their money they cannot spend it to expand, hire more workers, sell more goods, and get the engine of our economy going again.
There are two main causes of our economic trouble. First is greed. Nothing short-circuits the success of a free-market economy like greed. The second is our government: between ill-guided regulation and the knee-jerk reaction to our economic contraction that has been shown over this past year.
The government’s debt-to-income ratio is over 2:1. If this problem is not soon addressed the economic hardship we see now will be dwarfed by what’s coming as a result.
kennethcwarren64 over 14 years ago
LOVE IT!!!
Why would anyone want to turned things back over to the very people who created this mess?
They had 8 years, the Democrats have had one, and since they haven’t been able to clean up the mess that was left for them then we should throw them out and bring back the very people who made the mess?
As George Bush once said: “Fool me once, shame on, – shame on \, ah, ah, shame on — well fool me once and , shame on, – No New Taxes!– NO that was father who said that, well (he never did finish the statement)
toasteroven over 14 years ago
Let’s go back to the solid economy of Vespasian.
hastynote Premium Member over 14 years ago
The Dems in MA seem to be suggesting that just because their Red Sox were offended, they’d give their future back to the Bushies!!
Politics!?!?!
tomcib over 14 years ago
Acer bleeep orbis. (The KGB can’t tell the difference between Latin and smut, any wonder we’re going to you-know-where?) Cheers!
Magnaut over 14 years ago
BOBS all of you Barack Obama Bull Shirts
d_legendary1 over 14 years ago
<========It’ll make me and Neocon rich!
toasteroven over 14 years ago
Bull shirts?
A preliminary google search brings up a Texas based t-shirt company named bull shirts. So, uh… that’s a pretty odd thing to call us, Magnaut.
Dtroutma over 14 years ago
Good toon. BTW- Reagan(8) +41(4)+ “W” (8) = they had 20 years to screw up the economy. Plus 8 more from the hardly hard line “liberal” Clinton(with a Republican Congress)- so it’s really 28 years of the Republican’s calling it on the economic demise, or balloon.
SClark55 Premium Member over 14 years ago
You folks complaining about GWB - are you unaware that he and McCain tried to rein in things with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac? Seriously, what what do you say about what Chris Dodd and Barney Frank did to the economy by pressuring banks to loan to people that couldn’t pay it back? Bankers may be a lot of things, but why would they make loans to people that couldn’t pay them back without pressure from misguided govt?
lonecat over 14 years ago
I like it. A good example of Toles’ simple suggestive style. And he didn’t need to add the label “bubble” to get his point across. Is the elephant going to slide right off?
davesmithsit over 14 years ago
The only reason Bush signed most of the spending he did in the last two years was that was the only way he could finance the troops.The dems attached so much to the bills and there was nothing he could do without looking like he wasnt funding his own troops.
dshepard over 14 years ago
Sorry kids…you’re going to have to back to the level of government we had prior to 1903 to get a solid economy back.
We have seen not one but TWO major economic disasters since the government started regulating the economy. The first one happened under minimal regulation. This one happened under heavy regulation (even with some of the regulation peeled back, it is still heavy compared to the ‘30’s).
Now government regulation is starting to catch up to war and famine…two well-known devastators of economies.
It is time to stop taking money out of one part of the economy and putting it into another and claiming it is stimulating the economy. It makes about as much sense as trying to fix an engine leaking oil by draining oil out of the pan, pouring that same oil back into the oil fill, and claiming that you’re adding oil.
Money needs to be put back into the hands of the people who can make this economy work…the middle class and small business owners. When THEY spend the money the economy grows. When the government takes more and more of their money they cannot spend it to expand, hire more workers, sell more goods, and get the engine of our economy going again.
There are two main causes of our economic trouble. First is greed. Nothing short-circuits the success of a free-market economy like greed. The second is our government: between ill-guided regulation and the knee-jerk reaction to our economic contraction that has been shown over this past year.
The government’s debt-to-income ratio is over 2:1. If this problem is not soon addressed the economic hardship we see now will be dwarfed by what’s coming as a result.