- The USDA should be dissolved, because it makes zero sense to have a separate government death panel just for Agriculture. [Matt Yglesias]
- The U.S. can only send a few helicopters to rescue flood victims in Pakistan. Maybe if Wikileaks didn’t start the War in Afghanistan we could have helped out more? [Think Progress]
- Many ignorant parents are in favor of extending “the school day.” They do not realize this would do little aside from teaching America’s children how to become even more fat. [Hit & Run]
- Joe Biden crashed into an airplane, which begs the question: Is blaming the Mossad for Ted Stevens’ untimely passing actually just an elaborate cover-up for yet another Biden Gaffe? [Daily Intel]
- Remember when Barack Obama gave billions and billions of dollars to poor people, to help them in their time of need? Neither do we! But it happened, and then all those billions of dollars were siphoned into Michele Obama’s Barcelona Beach Party Fund, thanks in part to a complicated pyramid scheme invented by this wingnut cartoonist. [RedState]
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Joe Biden Travels About The Globe, Crashing Into Everything
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That f*cking cartoon makes me want to drink lighter fluid…. does it to you?
Biden needs to make amends with whatever magical gypsy witch he wronged sometime around last October.
That would be Dick Cheney, I suspect. Who else could call the devil in for a favor to curse someone?
According to the libertarian lady, a longer school day would be “swapping out parental muddling-through for an educational and nutritional experiment”. Uh, as long as the parents are employed at standard hours, extending the school day would eliminate the big gap where the kids are off, either unsupervised or requiring daycare or relative to watch them, and the parent(s) still at work.
RedState seems to really, really hate teachers. Yeah, it’s a great idea to eliminate a bunch of middle-class jobs; that’ll help the economy. Oh, and money went to poor people in the form of tax cuts – I thought they liked that.
Riley, we love you, but “beg the question” does not mean raise the question. It means avoid it.
I know this comment makes me an old-fart grammar Nazi, but I will continue futilely to flail against the tide at least for the time being.
Barcelona is for teh Oldz! – I hear the First Lady prefers to get her party on whilst drenched in the Ecstasy-infused-foam parties of Ibiza’s hottest all-nighters!!! GO FLOTUS, IT’S YOUR BIRTHDAY!!…
Parents want longer school days, but of course when you tell them that it’s going to cost more money (i.e. raise their property taxes) they get irate and vote out their representative. Yes, they should be voting out their city councilman, but that would involve figuring out who that person is in the first place, so nevermind.
[re=637756]JMP[/re]: Well, the ‘toon implies that the teachers are FORCED to hand the money over to their union, uh, “masters”. This is pretty even-handed for Erick O’Erick’s House of Poorly-Sourced Fucktardation.
[re=637759]Doglessliberal[/re]: Beggers can’t be questioners?
[re=637759]Doglessliberal[/re]: “beg the question
Excepting of course Palinesque logical mumblypeg responses to queries (can we still use that word?) which are examples of to “bugger the question.”
Mr. Tobytoons is apparently opposed to teachers getting paid. So is Sarah Palin, apparently.
[re=637756]JMP[/re]: Public education is a (failed) socialist experiment and teachers are unionized socialists. In the coming Randian paradise the plebes will be too stupid to compete for a pieace of the pie, and parasites like the laid-off teachers won’t be able to take a piece, either, because the “haves” have them outgunned. The teabaggers don’t seem to realize that many of them are plebes too. The whining when they figure this out will mercifully be inaudible in the gated communities of their betters.
[re=637767]SayItWithWookies[/re]: one of the basic issues we have today is that people scream and bitch when they don’t have enough ____ or the ____ is not fixed, and they do not seem to understand that things cost money. I hear moron after moron on the radio saying fuck the gov’t for spending money on anything and then in the same breath, “I am unemployed and it is the gov’t's fault”. Or some variation thereof. This phenomonon is really bad in VA, where people refuse to even entertain the concept of paying for things and then rant endlessly about our bridges and roads falling apart. The congnitive dissonance in this country is stunning.
Poop.
[re=637772]Extemporanus[/re]: Not unless they pay one can of hobobeans per question.
[re=637778]weejee[/re]: Nicely done.
[re=637787]harry palmer[/re]: The problem is that public education sometimes actually teaches the serfs more than they need to know to serve their proper lord as he (and it’s almost always a he) sees fit. It, together with letting them vote, has ruined America. And the Randroids are all confident they’d be the nobles in the restored feudal system.
[re=637759]Doglessliberal[/re]: i fart in step mit du, mein kamerad. words have meanings, despite any frankish claims to the contrary.
[re=637808]slappypaddy[/re]: we are all grammar Nazis together in our little weird world.
Keep in mind this is one of Toby Toons’ most elaborate musings, hence the numbers which direct the reader to the proper sequence of events. I dare anyone to go to his website (not linked).
According to the Internets:
Average salary per teacher per year = $40,000
Average cost per prisoner per year = $20,000
Length of time to get a High School Education 12 years
Average classroom size 25
Highly over simplified cost to tax payers to educate a future tax payer (40K x 12)/25 = $19,500
Average Prison Sentence 5 years. Cost to taxpayers = $100,000
If you are the average RedStater you are very willing to pay $100,000 and can’t stand the thought of paying $19,500.
Matt Yglesias? Isn’t he the guy who thinks that video of the insane intersection in Cambodia is an ideal we should strive toward?
You don’t seriously expect me to click on a redstate link do you. No fucking way!
[re=637957]mustardman[/re]: But the comments are of the usual awesomeness:
By “giving it to the poor” we actually do two unfortunate things: first, we discourage the poor from getting real jobs; second, we give to people who are not making really sound financial decisions. They are likely to spend poorly – frequently for things they cannot afford, and will be repo’d (like big-screen HD TVs).
“The Poor”, by and large, are people who have made choices (often, the express choice to live without attempting to earn an income), but who are still capable of improving their lot by being motivated to make better choices. Give-aways do not motivate better choices.
Because, as we know, there is a surplus of good-paying jobs in this country, and people are poor because they either spend their money poorly (because they have a surplus of it and don’t use their limited means on things like rent, groceries, utilities, or medical bills) or are too lazy to work or get “real jobs” (again, the mythical job surplus). What prevents them from getting better jobs is also a lack of hard work, and not a lack of higher education (which is apparently inexpensive enough so anyone who wants to go can easily afford it while somehow supporting themselves).
[re=637834]Tim[/re]: It’s more interesting than
(1) Print money out of thin air,
(2) Give it to the most productive members of our society.
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