Posted on 01/01/2017 1:38:30 PM PST by DFG
Ben combines great artistic skill with his ability to analyze what is really happening in DC and across America.
He has set a new standard for political cartoonists.
BOL!
I didn’t know he was still alive.
I thought he died years ago.
After this article, I’m sure it would have been a good career move.
I thought it was fairly funny and hit both sides pretty equally. He is always over the top in his humor and he definitely did that on the political stuff. The Russian and North Korea stuff I found hilarious. Some of the Samsung stuff had me near tears.
What I did note was that he didn’t mention any terrorist attacks - not one. Most likely because he didn’t feel it was right to make fun of a situation that had victims. He could have hit the responses hard, but I think he chose the high road on this one.
I thought it was hilarious, but I wish he had touched on the moronic Jill Stein.
Yep he did what he said he was going to do.
You know it’s bad when Harry Anderson left not only Hollywood but New Orleans after the Hurricane because it wasn’t worth living in either place. Harry played Dave Barry in Dave’s World from about 93 to 98 following the end of Night Court.
This is actually quite good! Dave Barry is a Libertarian, so you can expect him to take shots at everyone.
interesting but
the real difference is between those who support a big state (>35%GDP) and those who
support liberty (state <20% GDP)
Nobody can couple fact, sarcasm and parody like Dave Barry.
As usual, absolutely hilarious. my face hurts.
I thought he was pretty fair in his bashings of both Trump and Hillary, and I got a good laugh out of his musings about Trump too. Funny stuff, if you keep in mind about 3/4 of it is pure hogwash.
I loved the line about Kerry’s wingtip kneepads, and Kerry threatening to bring out James Taylor. The Carly Fiorina stuff was funny too. And he got in a couple of good ones on Cruz too. And the line about people realizing Rubio was barely out of puberty was very good.
I Don’t worry about his politics, Barry is just hilarious. I sometimes browse over to his website and read a little of his stuff.
But imagine reading through a whole book of this stuff an inch thick. I have one somewhere, maybe two. He’s been a favorite of mine for years, he never stops coming up with really funny lines nobody would ever expect. Like this line:
As the bitter and tumultuous month finally draws to a close, Americans briefly stop fighting over politics and come together to celebrate Thanksgiving in the same way the Pilgrims did in 1623: fighting over flat-screen TVs.
Nobody else thinks like Dave Barry, one of a kind zaniness in every column. I used to buy the paper just to read his column.
>>the real difference is between those who support a big state (>35%GDP) and those who support liberty (state <20% GDP)
Are those real numbers that mean something or just approximations that you made up? There are a lot of ways to make those numbers work, some are freedom-supporting and some are not.
The differences between the European and the traditional American Left vs Right are well-documented and easy to explain to people.
But the big reason why you can’t rely only on the size of the state in relation to the GDP is the effect of globalism on a developed nation. People have to eat. People need to go to the doctor. People need a place to live. Send all the jobs to Vietnam and the government grows. For a growing number of Americans, the globalists have shifted Americans down on Maslov’s Pyramid so that concepts like liberty have become a luxury for the “rich”. You and I may not understand their motivations, but that doesn’t change their motivations. Their perception is their reality. Our blindness to that is the greatest weakness of most FReepers.
those are very real numbers
today the state consumes about 42% of GDP
in 1912 it was 7%
>>today the state consumes about 42% of GDP in 1912 it was 7%
But there is a lot more to it than just numbers. The globalists talk of efficiency and productivity as if humanity does not matter.
Before computers and automation, companies made a profit while employing armies of laborers. Men had jobs. Women raised healthy, well-adjusted children who grew up to be productive adults long before they even became legal adults.
That 42% is the effect of ending all of that so we worship the idols of efficiency and productivity. You dream of cutting the 42% in half, but have no idea how to make up the difference in real people’s lives. I don’t either, but at least I recognize the extent of the whole problem.
A gradual reduction in income taxes with steadily increasing tariffs is the answer.
The government does not create jobs only private enterprise creates jobs. If 42% of the productive sectors output is consumed by the parasitic sector; there will be a job shortage.
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Globalism is one manifestation of the big state.
>>The government does not create jobs only private enterprise creates jobs.
That’s a nice bumper sticker, but it is not true. The government does not create WEALTH (until the invention of fiat currency), but a job is work and a paycheck for a person. A government paycheck spends as well as a private sector paycheck.
A healthy economy that does not want to sacrifice 42% of its output to the government must create jobs for people and that will starve out the government system because people won’t need it anymore.
I believe that a healthy economy starts with two hundred million people getting up and going to work every day. If the private sector won’t provide that due to efficiency and productivity, then the government will do it. I’m hoping that Trump will reduce the taxes and regulations enough that the private sector will either create jobs or that we’ll know for sure that taxes and regulations were just an excuse.
Dave Barry is funny...
Have I missed anything?
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