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How The Budget Deal Really Works (In One Cartoon)

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Presented with absolutely no "be careful what you wish for" comments...

 

h/t Sunday Funnies via The Burning Platform blog

 

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Sun, 12/22/2013 - 16:44 | 4269058 90's Child
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"Beware the beast man, for he is the Devil's pawn. Alone among God's primates, he kills for sport or lust or greed. Yea, he will murder his brother to possess his brother's land. Let him not breed in great numbers, for he will make a desert of his home and yours. Shun him; drive him back into his jungle lair, for he is the harbinger of death"

Sun, 12/22/2013 - 16:54 | 4269088 Occident Mortal
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Jr needn't worry.

He can't pay the bill, so he won't pay the bill. Simple.

Sun, 12/22/2013 - 16:59 | 4269109 stinkhammer
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Merry Christmas you motherfuckers!

Sun, 12/22/2013 - 17:17 | 4269160 negative rates
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If you don't like your bill, you don't have to keep your bill. If you like your 2 year chushy budget, then you can keep your 2 year chushy budget.

Sun, 12/22/2013 - 17:28 | 4269180 Occident Mortal
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Nah, servicing a debt is voluntary. You can always choose default.

The children on the hook for this years budget deficit will choose to default rather than service the debt. They didn't sign anything. They will default with a clear conscience.

The boomers are the first generation in 200 years to fail their children. Which is embarrassing.

Sun, 12/22/2013 - 18:13 | 4269267 negative rates
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It was planned that way, some people just can't get enough of going to war.

Sun, 12/22/2013 - 18:31 | 4269307 Kayman
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Boomers have much to be embarassed about, but governments have been paying SS benefits and Medicare out to previous generations from current taxation, setting aside nothing for the future.

Unless, of course, you expect to be able to cash in the IOU's created by Congress to cobble together all their lies and promises to buy votes.

 

Sun, 12/22/2013 - 20:29 | 4269529 AGuy
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"Unless, of course, you expect to be able to cash in the IOU's created by Congress to cobble together all their lies and promises to buy votes."

Yellen is going to buy them.

Sun, 12/22/2013 - 19:01 | 4269380 SuperRay
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As a veteran of vietnam, and obviously a boomer, I have observed that my generation has pretty much destroyed the world with their narcissistic, indulgent, self-satisfied, moronic, delusional pursuit of instant gratification.  Fuck them all.  I hope they all get eaten by the zombies when the collapse comes. 

Sun, 12/22/2013 - 21:11 | 4269607 Ridge_Runner
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Sadly, my generation is even more self gratifying, short sighted, and willfully ignorant to the consequences.  I share a similar opion for the outcome; screw em all.

Mon, 12/23/2013 - 05:54 | 4270276 noless
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I tried that working thing once, it didn't really get me anywhere though, i think I'm gonna try this thing they call "making a profit" now, that seems to be what other people do, the ones who don't work..

Even though it goes against my religious beliefs to exploit others ignorance, but apparently I'm alone on that one, so whatever, just gonna have to live with that i guess.

Serially.

Sun, 12/22/2013 - 23:07 | 4269842 Tijuana Donkey Show
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The zombies are here. They are all fighting for the new Air Jordans....

Sun, 12/22/2013 - 20:23 | 4269520 Crash Overide
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Being born into debt is wrong for any generation...

Mon, 12/23/2013 - 02:17 | 4270141 dunce
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Born into debt is the definition of slavery, they will labor at the direction and pleasure of an all powerful government like the serfs of yore.

Sun, 12/22/2013 - 17:55 | 4269220 Jumbotron
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"Beware the beast man, for he is the Devil's pawn....."

 

"Take your stinkin hands off me you DAMN dirty ape !! "

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cdmqn9JIuzc

Sun, 12/22/2013 - 18:51 | 4269358 squexx
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The beast man wears a funny little beanie!

Mon, 12/23/2013 - 00:20 | 4269992 Jumbotron
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I'm sure you meant this guy   http://tundratabloids.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/mo-tunic-29.12.2011... instead of a Jew....right squexx ?

Sun, 12/22/2013 - 21:56 | 4269675 vic and blood
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Great quote, but didn't you mean to post it under the Air Jordan article?

Sun, 12/22/2013 - 22:17 | 4269716 forwardho
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Indeed, since the quote was made famous by the movie "Planet of the apes"

 

Sun, 12/22/2013 - 16:45 | 4269065 Pairadimes
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Hoard the candy canes and hang on to that baseball bat, young man.

Sun, 12/22/2013 - 17:22 | 4269165 negative rates
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After hording them, you can sharpin them down and use um as a weapon. 

Sun, 12/22/2013 - 16:54 | 4269069 hedgeless_horseman
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Yes, let a bunch of addicts "budget" their own drug use and let me know how that works out.

Sun, 12/22/2013 - 16:57 | 4269113 yrad
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Ugh, killing me HH!!

Sun, 12/22/2013 - 17:09 | 4269129 90's Child
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Krokodil

Shit will fuck you up.

Sun, 12/22/2013 - 19:26 | 4269425 malikai
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Fuck's sake.

That shit better make you feel better than anything else on earth.

Because the picture ain't selling it!

Sun, 12/22/2013 - 20:50 | 4269563 90's Child
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Codeine, Red phosphorus, gasoline and some other shit.

By the time you realize how much it's eating your body the pain is too unbearable and you're too addicted to get off it.

Easier to make than heroin same high and addicts can't tell the difference.

Natural selection bitchez.

Sun, 12/22/2013 - 20:50 | 4269567 max2205
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Two bagger

Sun, 12/22/2013 - 21:58 | 4269682 vic and blood
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In this case, 2 BODY bags leaving just the face exposed.

Sun, 12/22/2013 - 17:21 | 4269168 negative rates
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A marijuanna stick did all that??

Sun, 12/22/2013 - 17:49 | 4269216 Jumbotron
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Gotta start somewhere.

Sun, 12/22/2013 - 19:00 | 4269258 negative rates
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First and last, wit a couple of needles for the ladys to do their nails inbetween. It's either that or there's going to be hell to pay.

Sun, 12/22/2013 - 17:24 | 4269172 DaddyO
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31 years clean today, 12/22/82! Thank God!

Crack wasn't in great supply and these other designer drugs weren't popular either.

Good thing, I probably wouldn't have made it.

My drug of choice was alcohol, mixed in with cocaine and heroin when I had extra money.

Barely got clean and sober as it was...

The FED is drunk on CTRL-P-dil, a deadly eleixir that kills whole global economies and their taxpayers.

DaddyO

Sun, 12/22/2013 - 18:15 | 4269269 logos5
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Congratulations , DaddyO! May God keep you always.

Sun, 12/22/2013 - 20:27 | 4269517 BoNeSxxx
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Quite a few friends of Bill here at the Hedge...

It'll be two years for me shortly.  One day at a time.

Congrats on stringing together so many days brother.

Sun, 12/22/2013 - 20:56 | 4269583 Socratic Dog
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Don"t boast about being clean.  You're a fucking loser to need to get clean in the first place.

Let me put it another way: it's nothing to be proud of.  NOTHING.

Sun, 12/22/2013 - 21:51 | 4269669 NOTW777
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what are you proud of and why are you so angry?

Sun, 12/22/2013 - 23:21 | 4269874 Freddie
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People are human and screw up.

Mon, 12/23/2013 - 08:55 | 4270436 Disenchanted
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The majority of people are human, the rest of them I have to wonder about.

Mon, 12/23/2013 - 15:17 | 4271415 Socratic Dog
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Sure.  But, keep your failures to yourself.  They're nothing to boast about.  They don't make you a special, unique individual.  Just shutup and carry on.

I never got so many down arrows on the Hedge.  Must be doing something right....

Mon, 12/23/2013 - 02:04 | 4270131 bunnyswanson
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Studies have shown people who have tendency to be attracted to and addicted to mind-altering substances are more intelligent than average.  They are also more sensitive.  It's clear you have never spoken at any length with an alcoholic or junkie.  Well, I have, including my father who was described by a colleague as such.  Another person is holds a master's degree.  My father took his life when he was no longer able to work.  He did not want to burden anyone.  He was a wonderful man who made a difference in this world (went 556 feet below the ground to recover 2 deceased men he had never met during a mining accident in 1965 and was never really the same afterwards.  There was 2 ton of debride and a cage in this shaft, on top of the men, and my father was one of only a few men willing to do the job on this cold January night.).

 

So fuck you forever and a day.

Sun, 12/22/2013 - 22:11 | 4269708 forwardho
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Keep coming back Brother!

Sun, 12/22/2013 - 17:24 | 4269177 One And Only
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Is that the only person who actually purchased an Obamacare plan?

Sun, 12/22/2013 - 17:44 | 4269202 negative rates
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No, that's what look like after you can't afford to pay the first $90 fine, you should see the plans for the second year fines.

Sun, 12/22/2013 - 18:08 | 4269255 Midas
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HH--I never thought I would say this, but can you go back to posting pictures of vegetables?

Sun, 12/22/2013 - 18:15 | 4269265 DaddyO
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Agreed, just a ghastly image...

It is heartbreaking because there is hope for recovery from a seemingly hopeless state of mind and body.

DaddyO

Sun, 12/22/2013 - 18:38 | 4269332 FeralSerf
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". . . let me know how that works out."

 

Of all the "solutions", that appears to work best.  Natural selection works! 

Sun, 12/22/2013 - 20:26 | 4269527 hedgeless_horseman
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Thanks for the reminder, FeralSerf.  I needed that.

Mon, 12/23/2013 - 01:29 | 4270103 cynicalskeptic
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The Communists 'solved' China's drug addictiopn problem in short order after taking over.    Totalitarian governments have little use for 'non-productive' members - Germany dealt with its mental hospital residents the same way.

Keep in mind that opium was FORCED on China by Great Britain as a way to reverse theior balance of trade deficit - tea and porcelain and silk going to England in exchange for silver.  The only thing Britain could sell to China to reverse the drain was OPIUM (and they went to war to force it on China - twice).  

 

Sun, 12/22/2013 - 23:12 | 4269853 Tijuana Donkey Show
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Nancy Pelosi? Have you been hanging out with Barney Frank again?

Sun, 12/22/2013 - 17:13 | 4269142 ebworthen
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A two year budget deal...what a joke it all is.

The left and the right agreed to SSDD and to keep the kleptoligarchy rolling towards the cliff of certain doom.

Mon, 12/23/2013 - 09:25 | 4270486 Translational Lift
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Bingo eb............

Sun, 12/22/2013 - 17:16 | 4269156 TORNasunder
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LOL - Merry Christmas boys and girls.

Sun, 12/22/2013 - 17:41 | 4269200 docmac324
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Good one HH.  Unfortunately it still gets worse from there.  

Sun, 12/22/2013 - 17:45 | 4269204 Goldilocks
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Justin Timberlake - What Goes Around (Official Video HD)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WF3pC5BgzkI (9:51)

Sun, 12/22/2013 - 17:47 | 4269210 AGoldhamster
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That boy will never have to pay that bill.

Fukushima will take care of that problem as all bills will be worthless - except maybe for the ofen.

Sun, 12/22/2013 - 18:55 | 4269367 Dr. Destructo
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So it seems like the only real choices future generations have are becoming a "prostitute" or a "rape victim". Either you play their game where they win and you receive creature comforts that can be taken away at any moment or don't play their game where they win while one cries in the corner, goes off the grid, or becomes an inmate.

Either way you're fucked.

Sun, 12/22/2013 - 19:11 | 4269389 Reaper
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The Ministry of Truth has instructed you that your government for their good and for the children has decided to spend more and borrow more on your behalf.

Sun, 12/22/2013 - 20:16 | 4269502 Kirk2NCC1701
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Another case of age & experience (guile!) beating out youth and idealism.

Plus the old fuckers know how to organize & lobby.
The young... not so much. But they can do wonders with an iGadget or Air Jordans.

Mon, 12/23/2013 - 10:39 | 4270651 esum
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