Right,but that was a great smoke screen you used for jesse jr fri. when you came to Chicago,something the sicko media won;t say "shame on you mr. presi"

Unfortunately, America has been hit by an obama which causes economic devastation. Millions of unemployed and underemployed people are trying to survive on a fraction of their former pay. Hopefully America can weather the storm of another 4 years of obama.

2 unpaid wars, 8 years of ignoring banks doing what they want, employers paying close to zero taxes while offshoring jobs, wealthy paying lower taxes, since revenue isnt present the American taxpayer has to foot the bill. If America can survive the debacle of Bush/Vader she most certainly can survive 4 more of Obama!

Employers are not hiring and cutting existing hours due to Obama care.

Tracey,
I am not a fan of Bush either but you need to get one of your facts straight. The 10% of households with the highest incomes pay more than 70% of federal income taxes, according to the Congressional Budget Office. I agree that Obama and Bush are/were not fiscally responsible, but don't fall rhetoric that we need more taxes. We need less government and politicians.

Nope, I am a NBC man sticking to the facts!

It always come down to what is best for the party instead of the country on both sides. But there is one item that i would like to mention. Since the top 10% "DOES" pay more than 70% of the taxes in America and the top 10% are those rich people who own everything wouldn't it make sense that they are not going to take a cut in lifestyle and instead will raise their prices to make the "poor people" pay more. So in turn are not the "poor people" going to be hurt by raising the tax rate on those rich people. Just one thought that might make sense to everyone regardless of party.

Lucie, you disrespect FOX news...my guess is that you can NOT even name one FOX news anchor..Prove me wrong!

When Clinton wanted the banks to give loans to people who couldn't come up with a big down payment, I don't think he meant to allow people to buy houses way over their means. Maybe we need more controls if people are not smart enough to know what they can afford and banks don't really care because they make money on the initial loans and then wash their hand.

Dirty Harry Callahan, since you lack manners questioning who I voted for I will let you know I voted for the Independent who ran because I was appalled Jr was running, Before corruption begat Jr. we was a decent congressman, but we are talking Executive level here and I hold the distinction of not voting not twice for Bush!

"Just pay attention to the Gun Control puppet show, folks. Don't look up!"

Banks may have been ordered to help with home ownership but they created tools to still win even when the risk of helping people fell through. Our problem is the quid pro quo of tax cuts, unpaid for at that. Obama has spent way less than any of his predecessors, debt is spiraling from interest of unpaid debt. It's funny how republicans become fiscally responsible when the opposition is in the oval office, you call libs tax and spend but your label is borrow and spend, both are bad IMO! We need accountability no matter who is in office, but don't dare try to act like the Bush years didn't happen, in order to fix it we require all hands on deck. This congress it the most divisive and inept in recent memory, if Harry Reid said his job was to make Bush a one term president repubs would have been screaming bloody murder, McConnel says it he's a role model. Record filibusters, blocking Defense Sec while we are at war over personal vendettas, That is hypocrisy, how can anyone defend congress, then in the same breath say it's Obamas fault? We have a revenue problem that wont be fixed with austerity measures absent of raising revenue, but most congressmen from both sides are pimped out to the highest paying corporation. Thats the crux of the issue!

i can see neither side is to blame hah!, how about they are ALL to blame.

It doesn't matter who is to blame, just fix it already!

so right just fix it, if it were that easy, but I am sure it is and the white house and congress will make it as difficult as they can, not sure that Obama can or will

The point of the Constitution was to create a perfect union, to keep us on track and to keep us free. It wasn't perfect and has been amended 27 times. Today, instead of going through the amendment process which is quite rigorous, we allow our elected politicians to do whatever they please. We are bombarded with unconstitutional laws and regulations to the point, only a few are challenged. The power has shifted from the people to the politicians, unions and banks who constantly protect each other. Our system of checks and balances is failing. As long as we choose to defend deeply flawed red and blue instead of a marginally flawed Constitution, we will be divided. While we blog our hearts out to defend our point of view, our duly elected are fundamentally changing our country and destroying our way of life. We have been distracted and fighting among ourselves instead of uniting on things that will make America strong and free. Just because your representative is red or blue or friendly or has name recognition or knows how to deal...that is no reason to vote for him/her. Really get to know the people that you vote for, not who they tell you they are. What is their history, their character, their record, their true vision? It is not easy to find the truth but it is our duty. The unflattering cartoon above is just that, an unflattering cartoon that will rally some and anger others thus diminishing the real message that America is in serious fiscal trouble.

Back to real estate... It was mentioned correctly that the Community Reinvestment Act of the 70's under Carter, then made worse by Clinton and Bush had a large role in creating the problem, but there's more to the problem - Fannie Mae and Feeddie Mac. Did you know that they own 95% of all home mortgages? When you check your credit report, you'll see that the bank you pay every month is not the owner of your debt, they just are the pass through servicing company. You can regulate banks all you want so they will stop making risky loans, but when the federal government is there waiting to purchase any and every mortgage there is, 100% of the risk is removed from the bank. Why not make those loans? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fannie_Mae

Is that the debt that bushCo ran up from the two unneeded wars he kept off America's books?

Concerned...I did/do know that the mortgages are bought by quasi-governmental entities. It is at the very least a double edged sword. Without that safety net they provide, loans and particualrly mortgages would revert to extremely high downpayments which made home ownership prohibitively expensive to 'break into'. THAT was bad because landlords could take great advantage of tenants, who often dealt with slum conditions and had no recourse for it.
The rise of more home ownership certainly helped the growth of the middle class, and not having to put down 50-75% for a home made that possible.
Of course, as you mention, it went WAY too far during the boom and now we are all stuck with the shattered remnants of that collapse.
The initial CRA under Carter was somewhere between benign and harmless as far as fall out from it...the real harm came under the laws that gutted Glass-Steagal, which allowed banks to sell the loans and then allowed them to bundle them. Those were twin nails in the coffin of smart regulation that held back the stupidity which is now known as the housing bubble/collapse.
We put foxes in charge of the henhouse then acted like we were surprised the chickens were gone.

As we approach the new danger of the Egyptian or Mongolian brotherhood( a NEUTRON MUSHROOM CLOUD) according to Ammoland!
The 50,000 factories in BAINLAND China and the TPARTY financier Sheldon the Vice lord of Macau are demanding we increase the refined gas to Bainland because the Iranians are maxed out since Cheneys KBR are in some sort of limbo at the moment and their Kharg island holdings are operating less that 50%,
The Zionists and Bainland Mormons could care less if we pay $5-$6 a gal, it works better for them with so many empty TPARTY suits and Blue collars alike. The TPARTY are also ready to charge the OBAMA admin with failure to CREATE JOBS and BEING the major contributor to Global warming because the Glaciers will be gone along with coastline Florida.and Georgia- Ala and la.They also plan to add a rider on the climate change bill to subsidize Exxon -the sisters in drilling in the Arctic and build new refineries in Alaska for the gas guzzling BAINLANDERS who cannot take any more air pollution in their paradise.
Sorry Dave Kerry and the Tparty are not the empty headed wingnuts that do not comprehend they just do not care or will read anything that is sensible or truthful since the truth on their LEADERS sexual idenity the LOG CABIN GOP went public!

"I'm sure that asteroid was from the Bush era..."

@ Garry-Kerry sounds umm thinks and sounds alike!
The asteroid was from the Rex era, an honor to be in elite company EVER NOTICE both or u and all the 5 watt bulbs are similar to Vera's except he-she accepts her-his dual idenity!

@ Butch. It was a joke. You sound like PMSNBC with your snide remarks. Though in case you haven't noticed, your ilk consistently blames others. I'm sure you'll blame me for your massive vowel-movement. Ahhh, libs.

Kerry... A little racist now are we?

I love how people refer to bush as a conservative. He was a big spending liberal. Especially in the second term. People who have no argument will always blame. We have no real leaders in this country. All the President does is blame. Congress too.

George Bush is a liberal man of faith.

@Now DUBYA is born again alright, and a lefty! And that makes Cheney a Buddhist
medal of honor winner!
Apology Garry did not know u all had a sense of humor!

@Butch.. It's necessary when trying to rationalize the current administration.

@Garry sure nuff why he is not prosecuting Dubya, Cheney as well as BANKSTERS is a puzzler?

@Butch..He won't. If he does he outs himself as well. The banksters and those on Wall Street are his biggest supporters. I especially found it amusing during the '12 campaign; in New York he gave his blessing to the Occupy loons during the day, and held a 35K fundraiser for his Wall Street cronies at night. Barely a word in the LSM.

Serious question for some of you: Assuming that the blame for the financial crisis and the national debt falls solely on George Bush and the Republican party, at what point does the current administration or any future administration own the responsibility for the nation's debt and economy?

Sequestration will prove many things Austerity will work like Reagan supply side it is extremely good for the Banksters, corrupt Pol's and cost twice as much as it does now to fix it after they wreck it just to get the Muslim, Kenyan, INDONESIAN Black guy. While making life and basic taken for granted things impossible along with 5-6 $ a gal for gas and blame OBAMA. The TPARTY- FOX- SHELDON kOCH LOBBYISTS will IMPLEMENT the Ryan austerity aka sequestration plan which is better for the scum because the dummy Dem;s will be blamed.It is even better than the coup they had in 80 with Reagan. Carter left office and raised the DOD spending 7% because of the failed rescue in the desert of the hostages (the movie Argo) then desert storms knocked out the choppers, under pressure by his Bankster - Zionist advisors POTUS CARTER increased the DOD budget 7%.
The incoming DOD boss and ADMIN budget DIRECTOR DAVID STOCKMAN then made it 7% more, a rise in 14% in peacetime( except for the Contras and the other Guerillla drug Smuggler insurgencies that GOP loved to fund) they also were the death squads or ROMNEY'S original BAIN INVESTORS.
The Dem's premature celebrations a short time ago and the betrayal by the MORMON HARRY REID who has the leadership of a ostrich and the betrayal of the Zionist Carl Levin and the Jewess Princess Feinstein on the filibuster rules of the Senate will stain the legacy of POTUS no matter how they spin it but the brain dead Dem voters will never know! .

@Garry no argument, he is a DEMOPUB a centrist GOP, that's why he had two banksters and a Illinois GOP POL in his cabinet, BUSH was in his YUTE a deserter, boozer, druggie who swindled a lot of people including the st of Texas in subsidizing his hobby and became by default Cheney's Charlie McCarthy,
Robme is a tool of the banksters, Zionists the link is SHELDON and the Red Army who are his business partners in the OFF SHORE DRILLING CORP now in IRAN who by the way are also partners of a sort with KBR-HELLIBURTON, AND SOME SAY both of these guys are breaking the law, how bout u?

@ Kerry have u ever tried hard as a student or because u are unable to comprehend wasting yer little mind on nothingness and expecting trickle down to produce the magic prosperity that rises all Boats? Because u are oblivious to your own ignorance like the Titanic sailing into the North Atlantic u are a deck hand taking orders from the Captain or like Bush also oblivious to his silver spoon and skull and bones upbringing,neither u nor Bush care nor are concerned there are not enough life boats or floatation devices for the middle and underclass in steerage? But Bush and Cheney will get a seat because Cheney will be in drag as the godfather of the log cabins and Bush be his Maid.

That's my point! no comprehension! can u give us more than a half dozen word reply?

@Arthur - Agreed. @Butch.. Obama a GOP centrist? You aren't 'center' if you spend 5 trillion in under four years, especially on something as ridiculous as his failed stimulus. Washington Post: ""Obama, by all accounts, was a habitual drug user in high school. He tried cocaine, he admits in "Dreams From My Father"; he “tried drugs enthusiastically.” The Chicago Tribune reported back in 2007 that Obama thanked the “Choom Gang” in his high school yearbook; “chooming” was Hawaiian slang for smoking pot. The Honolulu Advertiser reported that Obama’s senior portrait “prominently displayed … A package of ‘Zig-Zag’ rolling papers and a matchbook.” One of Obama’s close friends was arrested for drug possession during high school.
In his memoir, Obama talked about routinely getting high. “Junkie. Pothead,” he wrote.""
Why does Barry get a pass?

Why does everybody keep getting angry and responding to this knucklehead? It's like the itch in the center of your back that you just can't reach. Ignore it and it will go away.

Just sit back and watch the economic devastation that hits next year with Obamacare..watch and see what families do then to feed their families how many part time jobs people will take to make their mortgage..Its going to be a nightmare

@Garry I bet all your HS friends went on to become outstanding bully pulpit Ministers and later predators and or national Guard Pilots who also walked away from their wrecked F101 or piper cubs? And did this follow the skull-bones years of intense economics destruction? Now Cheney who was a Divinity student in log cabin -let my people go Theology where he met his fellow DRAFT DODGERS future experts in waging wars and allies and Rabbi's of Ammoland with a scattering of Bible thumpers from Dixie.
Now Gar if Drugs were LEGAL and not what made the Busheviks and a lot of other old and new money alike rich, the phony Gated TPARTY- GOP and ghetto pot heads would be concerned IF IT IS OR NOT a pot head that is cutting taxes for runaway off shore job creators and putting the Wars and prescriptions on the RED ARMY credit card!
If people and the Media did pay attention how would the Media energy summit in the pre invasion of Iraq and the Hindu KUSH get under the radar? Now we have golf gate and still no mention of how Cheney divied up the spoils of the rich Oil-Gas region with the seven sisters and Tex-Okkie and Wyo rangers and pioneers! The secret that the Media allowed the ROBOT MAN to smirk about rather than answering is and was why the BUSH PRESIDENCY is was and will continue to be cause of the depression debt deficits and climate change!

I agree with Jax. Butch ,if you only learned how to write maybe someone could understand you.

Just responding to the 'goose & gander' mentality that exists today. Beat the hell out of W, and give BO a pass. They both had substance abuse issues; lets not be hypocritical. It's commonplace to look the other way when this president screws up, which was largely shown with his "do over" in 2012. In '08, he was the 'only candidate' that could fix this debacle - he made things worse.. Nothing revisionist about that. What is revised is folks forget all this crap started to happen in '06 when dems took over congress - a slight oversight. He spent a trillion and said unemployment would plummet to under 8%. It didn't. It stayed the same. Every president since Nixon has been blamed for high gas prices - though not this one...it's still Bush & Cheney's fault. If the "BUSH PRESIDENCY is was and will continue to be cause of the depression debt deficits", then your guy in the white house has certain failed; he is most definitely an ineffectual leader, though nobody has to dig to see that.

Fella's, I'm done with this round and round banter. Barry has made nothing better since '08, and 52% of Americans chose to give him another chance. Be happy with that. And yes, just wait till Obamacare kicks in.. I'll see you here after that. Ciao.

@Garry bet yer around after sequestration and austerity kick in u can't resist blaming BO for the cost of gas while the XL makes plans to send more of it to BAINLAND CHINA

@Kerry what are u going to do now that yer secretary is taking a couple of days off in the Cayman islands! Why don't u go with him, noone will mis yer 2 words of wisdom from the TPARTY!

@KERRY, the next Cartoon is not due till next week is that all u have for a contribution? That sums it all up the problem for the Murkans is there are no longer enough comics to teach them how to be articulate as writers and even speakers!
Articulate Kerry is easily found in any Dictionary inside and out of MURKA!
Murka is where the MURKANS live in hillbilly and GATED enclaves in some regions they have white robed Guards and Hoods with a Burning cross, Murkans live among TPARTY-GOP NEO CONS and others who were duped into voting for BUSH-CHENEY the log cabin party!
DUPED is being led to the Die Bold machine and pressing straight REP!
Straight REPUBLICAN is a contagious disease that infects the limbic system
( memory and emotional problems) as well as ability to read comic books and cartoons.
Some Americans in 04 Ohio were victimized by MURKAN election officials who switched their DEM vote to MURKAN by rigging the voting machine!
Comic Books are the GOP version of economics.
Economics was a term used before the POTUS with Alzheimer's changed it to supply side!
Alzheimer is one of the worst diseases afflicting ALL America both who are forced to live in a world that a TPARTY GOP decision maker has decided while in early stages of the disease such as Reagan and Demetia Domenici and a host of other GOP Senators.

@David H--yer misinformation on union wages is only true if u compare Filipino electricians to 134 IBEW and RISK being electrocuted in our showers, or some 4th world Plumbers who will work for the Filipino wages but cannot insure the sewers do not back up into our bathrooms and the rats do not likewise..
If u were an objective writer on the subject u would write of the workers in the 50,000 factories who have never nor would ever make anything near what u cite, and would use data that includes wages- inflation underemployment -unemployment and job creation in and transferring of HIGH TECH( senata) type jobs in COMMUNIST BAINLAND!
The non union workers making sensors at Seanta have never been part of the TPARTY misinformation narratives nor have union HIGH TECH jobs being transferred to the RED ARMY. ANY serious discussion would jeopardize and make the TPARTY treason easy for the low information KERRY and company KOOL AID drinkers to comprehend. The plan is why do it, keep the subsidy to BAIN and other traitors subsidies, rebates ongoing it is the equivalent of forcing the Koch's and Rothschild to pay taxes or eliminate the Fed Res!

Dave are u writing for Bain factories who do not factor into your expertise or presentation or the the electrical contrators and Plumbing Council?
@kERRY take a TYLENOL and a nap for a month until Garry returns!

never mind the TOXICITY has gone too far, just take the nap and screw the cheap liquor also.

@Link it was more like he was trying to actually write more than 3 words and then deleted it before we can all read it!
How bout u do u write?

Thank the lord the toxicity is not fatal I would quit the booze though! Is Garry back yer up to 4 syllables! Say something ABOUT YER LOG CABIN MEMBERSHIP S so we know u are not VERA!

Kerry , Laird and his pooch are waiting for yer words of wisdom on the cartoon page!

butchie baby, I don't know why ya drug me back into this, but kiss my right wing (deleted) AND SHUT UP. We have had enough of your blathering. We post some opinions, have some fun, but you and a few others just get GOOFEY. I can't believe they're letting your rants continue.

P.S. Butchie, when I am able to retire I'm going to get a pooch, and I bet he'll be able to carry on a more intelligent conversation than you. Even as a puppy. WOOF.

Butch, my guess is that you are not going to honor me with all your accolades. That's okay; you do not have to know what you are talking about. You just need to be passionate about it. Also you caught me; I am a Bain factory executive that is watching the patch to find my next set of victims.

@laird I'm having fun,I can always tell u really care when u all call me "Butchie Boy" too bad u took too much Tylenol in yer wasted life! At least a simple simon like Kerry with a limited vocabulary has stretched his limitations and can use four letter words without be profane and for that he-she should be readmitted to 6th grade summer school,(and we can assume that is what u told Aunt Sally about yer backside and why u are out of her will) .As for" shutting up" we and the greatest generations of WWI-II -_II up and my hero Al Gore did not go to war so Neo Fascists and Neo Con DRAFT DODGERS can abuse the WEB in the same way BAIN clear channel does the airways spreading their ideology of fear, hate, disinformation, misinformation, lies distortions and citing other Nazi's with the same aims as their sources, take another drink of yer cheap Scotch and learn a lot and not from discredited TPARTY MURKANSi.

Butch, you sound like the hate-filled liberals on MSNBC. Incapable of having a rational conversation without the name calling and middle school banter. I won't spar with you and your ilk.. It's boring and frustrating, like arguing with children.

@ Garry --i would have preferred Current at times or Thom Hartman all the time but Ed Schultz and Rachel are dependable and accurate, and what have u learned from the conservative revisionist historian BIll O? Did the south win the civil war? Or Turd Blossom the man who blew it on election night after hearing that anonymous had PATCHED his OHIO Die Bold machines rendering the repeat of stealing the election in this case as it turned out just Ohio as in 04 kaput!
U certainly can learn about the administrations War on the middle class that will cease to exist in another GIPPER- BUSHEVIK or ROBME administration or against the Kenyans war ag Roundtable exec's women who live in gated houses and why the same MUSLIM KENYAN hates Jews while getting 65% of their vote even if he is not a Zionist!
That is the job of bipart smuggy Sean to explain to the low info T PARTY-NEO-CON-LOG CABIN Charlatan Christians,RC PREDATOR Archbishops financial advisors, Zionist Rabbi -hillbilly oxy cotin coalition led by a guy with magic drawers who is a partner of death squads and the COMMUNIST CHINESE!
The question is does anyone of these deep thinkers have a IQ ABOVE sub normal? Too bad hoped u can clear all this up for me! Almost forgot about the toe sucker DICK MORRIS taking his useless mind to Newsmax where other 6-8 th grade mentals are putting out supply side templates for the 4th grade readers! Thanks and don't take TYLENOL?

I'll promise not to take Tylenol, if you promise to take a Xanax. My lord, Butch! Did you take advantage of the sale on Cuervo at Binnys? It's like one massive vowel movement here.. Your hieroglyphics make my teeth hurt.

And it is a security upgrade ON my Tigris cuneiform from being hacked by the boys from Macau! Where's Binny's?
Are yer bicuspids made of wood? A lot of Russians and Eurasians have this problem! Where do u live a good western oral hygienists can treat this?
maybe Kerry has the same problem and is affecting his limbic region?

Now Butch, that was funny!!

@ truth are u inferring i AM a LOG CABIN deviate? never voted GOP in me life and have no plans to do so and speaking of Gays, there is a new poll on the new POPE, Archbishop O`Malley of Boston is the front runner but I would like to summit Cheney's offspring no matter the gender since he -she were born by two mom's or immaculate conception! watta ya think or can u?
TRYING very hard to write or print on Kerry's level and u also since u know those gay beaches u must have a front seat view, the meat of the problem sorta, Are u the A TEAM, is that all there is?

Are you $ 5 trillion better off than you were before Obama piled that amount of debt on your family's back, in order to further enrich his favored cronies and buy their votes? They got your money's worth.

@Nick were the cronies Log cabiners aka GAY REPUBLICANS like Kerry and Truth of the gay beach gold coast with friggin BEDBUGS ?Now they have me confused, I thought the only gay blade GOP were TV EVANGELICAL preachers!

Nick it is so hard to put into words that is comprehend-able to the commons and the Murkan anti commons aka TPARTY on the figure u cite. In 1980 the Alzheimer POTUS aka 666 Ron Reagan's Dept-Def (DOD) siphoned off what would be comparable to the amount mentioned or double what Jimmy carter had budgeted in increased spending, this 14% increase in DEF spending has continued and ongoing by 41-CLINTON-43 and will cease to a realistic figure thanks to the Ryan sequestation but it will come out of the hide of warriors general welfare and care, while the TPARTY mercenaries have already looted enough for their Cayman island retirement will survive quite well. The question is how does a UNDERPERFORER such as u with NO expertise in Pentagon numbers crunching,license requirements, tax law etc and the necessary work ethic come up with this mythic number? Is it something Kerry said" on supply side working if left alone" or some other TPARTY original thought such as TPARTY women can give immaculate conceptions?