Toles Toon and Rant

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Friday rant: undeserving edition

USA Today says "Luxury spending is back in fashion." Isn't that nice? The wealthy can add some more special items to their carts! Meanwhile, back in the rest of the economy, spending for necessities, like food and dental care, is down, but, hey, there are winners and losers in this dynamic economy! It all balances out!

Food! Dental care! What a spoiled lot of undeserving poor we are awash in. And now the Tea Party stumbles onto the scene, with a dagger clenched in its teeth, to make sure that these grasping, needy people are sliced out of the federal safety net. They have not yet noticed that the dagger they chew has two edges, though that will come. And they will also discover, too late, that their resistance to a larger stimulus bill has sharpened the edge facing them. But meanwhile, they will not rest in their crazed efforts to preserve and extend tax cuts for the undeserving rich.

Yeah, undeserving rich. Tell me how an EVER-AND-RAPIDLY-INCREASING percentage of wealth being skimmed off the economy by the very wealthiest continues to be "deserved." At what percentage does that stop? Hint: WE'RE THERE! It's just fantasy and dogma to say that someone who is worth a billion times another person has worked a billion times harder, is a billion times smarter, or has even created a billion times more value. Take any one of them out of the economy, and someone else would step in, and the result would be largely the same. If anything, of late they have been using their giant brains and special work ethic to create an economic casino, which has paid off nicely for them and devastated the lives of millions below them. So no. NOT deserving. --Tom Toles

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/tomtoles/?hpid=opinionsbox1

[Richard Steele]

1. K&R

[Angry Dragon]

2. Very good toons

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3. Good Rant, too! n/t