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- Evergreen sent to Creators June 2012 2
- (I'm not sure, but I think this cartoon has to do with Mayor Bob Isaac and the city council wanting to tax dog racing winnings.) It's a dog-tax-dog world. 1
- (Originally published 1997-04) People who work hard and have success get punished with huge taxes and bureaucracy. Liberals see successful people as whipping boys. 1
- (Oversize cartoon) Some, in the electorate, wonder why they should be interested in buying an old, conservative "model T" in 1980. They might be interested because all the new-fangled, big government models don't seem to work. 1
- 95 GOP want to give states block grants for lunch programs. What will Dems say? Media weighs in more melodramatic than Dems. Taking kids lunch money, killing children. 1
- A Priest (or pastor) is reading scripture in huge but nearly empty cathedral. He says, And they will answer, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry and did not protest cuts in food stamp services.... He must be reading from the Revised Socialist version. 1
- A University professor with a Vote for Obama yard sign on his lawn takes his children to school. He doesn't seem to notice the loaded, heavy backpacks full of debt the president has been piling on their backs. 1
- A judge ruled that President Obama's Affordable Health Care program was unconstitutional. Dr. Obama is about to administer another shot of Socialism into the arm of sickly Uncle Sam. He wonders if the judge ruled on his drug program. 1
- A kinder, gentler tax bite. 1
- A modern dad opens door to see a giant boot labeled, Federal Daycare there. He says, "Honey! the babysitter is here!" 1
- A monster peanut, $59 billion federal deficit, (It's peanuts now) has the most scary Halloween outfit. 1
- A school kid asks teacher if he can go to the bathroom. His teacher calls Mrs. Appleton to get her to call the EPA. Over-regulation enters every aspect of our lives. 1
- A veteran. without legs, and a hippy-type peacenik are walking to college class. Clinton-Gore voter loves the idea that they can get benefits for their national service. His service? Making posters to help save the rain forest. What did the vet do? 1
- ACME Manufacturing Company is handing out pink slips. Government regulation compliance division is hiring...and building. 1
- ATF police have a building surrounded. Reporter asks if they are after illegal firearms. The Chief replies, "Tobacco". Branch Winstonians is word play for the Branch Davidian debacle. 1
- After Hurricane leveled large parts of New Orleans the politicians and President George W. Bush all favor rebuilding the city. Taxpayers wish they could build it on higher ground. 1
- After the Challenger explosion, extra precautions were taken. Future launches will require unanimous votes. 1
- Agriculture Secretary Block is planning to grind up the overweight Food Stamp Program. 1
- Air Traffic Controllers use strike gun to rob taxpayer's bank. 1
- Air traffic controllers in trouble. Federal control of the airports is sadly antiquated and under equipped to handle modern air traffic. The FAA offers backup system if air controllers can't communicate with the pilots. It's a megaphone. What? Me worry? 1
- Airline called, Civil Rights Act of '64 is obviously overloaded by protected class people. Now the gravity impaired passengers are boarding. Congress might regret adding so many groups but It seemed like a good idea at the time. 1
- American consumers are carrying a heavy load. On top of big inflation, they have to pay more taxes and cover the cost of criminal activity like check forgers and shoplifters to bring their merchandise home. I don't call this getting more for our money. 1
- American consumers continue to buy on credit even though torpedoes, dollar decline, interest rates, stock market and productivity aim to stop the ship. 1
- An obese Uncle Sam tells a thin family THEY are going to have to tighten their belts. 1
- An oil crisis victim is on the floor. The media sleuth always blames the butler (oil companies) for the murder. The American consumer, (the maid), the OPEC (gardner) and Uncle Sam (big gov't regulators) look totally innocent...but they're not. 1
- As President George W. Bush fills the United Airline with Taxpayer subsidized fuel so the war on terror plane can fly, he sees the United Airlines union mechanics tying a chain to the tail so the plane can't. 1
- As the G-8 countries gather to solve their economic issues, I doubt if the frugal, Volkswagon-driving Germans will be anxious to pay the bills for the big-spender, free-wheeling, motorcycle gang (USA, France, Britain, etc.) 1
- As the government cracks down on second-hand smoke health issues, the smoking areas are getting further away from places of business. The Madison Avenue people were right...smokers really WILL walk a mile for a Camel (cigarette). 1
- As the government tries to control wages and prices, it is just wasting energy. When wages go up and prices go up, inflation gets further out of reach. It's like a dog chasing it's own tail. 1
- As the rest of the sheep stay in line for the establishment leaders to herd them toward Washington, D.C. on the affirmative action road, Supreme Court Justice, Clarence Thomas, a black man, steps out and heads toward freedom. 1
- At the gas station prices go down because of OPEC supply. Waiting around the corner state and federal government are planning to raise the price by adding taxes. 1
- Baseball analogy. Taxpayers serve as a backstop for the very hard pitches of the market collapse. Scared little batter, Fannie Mae, with Representative Barney Frank as umpire doesn't have a chance of stopping the ball. Watch out. 1
- Basket ball analogy 1
- Be careful, Little Red Riding Hood...Wolves! Child is on the internet and should use caution. Hackers, Big Government (Clinton) and internet security people are out there. 1
- Big Brother Federal Government net snares state families with welfare reform laws including privacy rights, ultimatums, employer mandates, etc. The State of Colorado says the feds Snared a lot more than deadbeat parents there. 1
- Big Federal Government sow has PBS, NEA, NPR, Parks, Humanities drinking from teets. National Trust for Historic Preservation is eating from private funding trough. Original sent tothe National Trust for Historic Preservation. 1
- Big Government in a BIG government SUV are filling up tank at a Tobacco money service station. They are looking at a map and planning a trip to GUN Makerville. When the reach Fatty Food Junction, they will need a bigger vehicle. 1
- Big Government snake oil salesman and highway men wait behind a rock and asks Congressman Charlie Rangel who they are targeting this time. He says, "Job creators." Another robber says, "Again?" (A stage coach is waiting to be plundered.) 1
- Big business is in the government welfare pool with little kids. Mr-Mrs. Taxpayer wants freeloaders out. Having coffee with President Bill Clinton doesn't mean they should get to sponge off others...but they do. Crony capitalism at work. 1
- Big fish swallow small fish analogy 1
- Big game hunter and Independent Council, Lawrence Walsh, bags bunny, Mr. Poindexter. Media is excited. 1
- Big game. The free market and President Obama are gambling with OUR money in taking over the auto market. If we win, everyone loses. Obama is raising the stakes $30 billion. Uncle Sam sweats, as does Ms. Liberty. 1
- Big regulator, Representative Charles Schumer holds box of nutty Flakes. Nuttier label points to his head. Big government; regulators represent the high cost of Flakes. 1
- Big spender, Senator Ted Kennedy, is feeling very generous with taxpayer money. He calls for operations all around. 1
- Bill Clinton suits up for his run for president. He dons his Santa suit while Democrat elves gather money from taxpayers. 1
- Bill Clinton, EPA, Fish and Wildlife, Dept. of Interior are the hunters. Farmer, Rancher, Logger, Miner is the game. 1
- Budget Talks. Panel 1. The Republicans are targeting big government spending. They want to save the children. Panel 2. The Democrats are targeting the Republicans. They tell people they want to save social security. 1
- Buildings look like city offices selling real estate, used cars, news, hospitals...people wonder why businesses don't see much future anymore. 1
- Bush boards jet, Congress crew loads taxpayer bombs, going after domestic issues, a war they can get into. 1
- Business man with all kinds of Federal helpers in his office sees another court justice coming in with an expanded equal pay ruling. 1
- Business opens door to Government Family Leave Inspectors. Boss wishes his representative would work on Government Leave legislation. Business is filled with Payroll inspectors, safety inspectors, hiring inspectors, etc. 1
- Business people find REAL affirmative action...destroy overbearing government regulations. Now they can afford to HIRE someone. 1
- Caption "A message we SHOULDN'T send." Panel 1. Burn one...(South Central L.A.) Panel 2...Get one Free! Another Great Society project rebuilds South Central L.A. 1
- Caption "Helping the Poor." Panel 1. The government plan is to lower welfare food to people trapped in a pit. Panel 2. The free market answer is to lower a rope ladder where people can climb freedom rungs out of the pit. 1
- Caption "House Democrats prepare for the inauguration of the Clinton presidency." Huge Democrat steam roller crushes buildings while construction of more government programs continues in Washington, DC. 1
- Caption "How government can help parents raise children" Panel 1. Right...give parents a tax break so they can love them better. Panel 2. Wrong...Give parents money. More children...more money. 1
- Caption "Ideal Community Standards, as seen by..." Panel 1. Citizen's Project wants to ban "Hate" Panel 2. Colorado for Family Values wants to stop "special rights" for gays. Panel 3. Some of the rest of us would like to see "Big Brother" stopped. 1
- Caption "News item 1
- Caption "The Liberals' idea of leveling the playing field in the marketplace." Huge Uncle Sam lifts a football field to help the "little guy" The successful football team has to run uphill. 1
- Caption "Which constitutionally protected expression would taxpayers help pay for?" Panel 1. KKK cross burning Panel 2. Nazi salutes Panel 3. The cross of Christ in a jar of urine supported by the National Endowment for the Arts. 1
- Caption "Which employer do you think is better able to teach your teen-ager how "TO MAKE IT ON HIS OWN"?" Panel 1. A. The boss of burgers? Panel 2. B. The wonk of Washington? (Clinton's Summer Youth Employment program.) 1
- Caption "While people are distracted by the Gulf war..." the Baltic states are kidnapped by the USSR, China dissidents are in trouble with China and President George H. W. Bush and Congress are sneaking past record Government spending. 1
- Caption "You know government is part of the problem when..." Panel 1. Social Services lady asks a single, high-school dropout why she wants to have another baby. Panel 2. Teen answers, "I could use the income." 1
- Caption "Your tax dollars at work (again)" Panel 1. Back in 1940 the government told the Corps of Engineers to drain the Everglades. Panel 2. Now it's big government telling the same people to Save the Everglades...at a cost of $7.8 billion. 1
- Cars are passing by abandoned home and church and heading for new construction of government buildings. Where are we going? 1
- Cartoon depicts lots of cars traveling on the highway. One car is obviously a polluter. Question 1
- Castle Knights prepare for battle. Presidential candidate, physically fit, Ronald Reagan is riding on an elephant. President Jimmy Carter with a huge, overweight, record belly is lifted on to worried donkey. 1
- Charles D. Parrott of CURE is missing another staff member, Charles Bighorse. Mayor Bob Isaac might be up to something. [See Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph article "Charles Parrott's position abolished", dated September 3, 1980, page A2 1
- Charles Darwin's survival chart of the march of evolution from pond scum to the human being needs to be updated. It looks like the strongest species on the planet is the big government tax man. Property owners may disappear. 1
- Child is being feed from a bottle shaped like the capitol dome. Hands that feed the baby look evil. It seems the government wants to feed us from cradle to grave. 1
- Citizen asks lawmaker...put that cigarette out it's the law...seat belts, it's the law, doesn't like big brother messing in our affairs. 1
- Citizens are begging a bureaucrat to think of the children, not to toss people out in the cold, not having a heart...while other Congressmen are wondering if the bureaucrat is a welfare reformer. Actually he is the base closure commissioner. 1
- City council and the nazi-like visual police visit a house (that looks a little like our home) with a report that the car has been parked in the driveway for four days. Neighbors rat on neighbors. 1
- Collective bargaining sounds nice but when public employees organized they can strike whip to motivate the taxpayer slaves to row faster. 1
- Colorado Representative Ken Kramer might not find it so easy to take the bull (Federal spending) by the horns and pull it in. It looks pretty big to me. 1
- Colorado Representative Pat Schroeder leads goose-stepping day-care police to grandma's and grandpa's house to see if their day-care operation measures up to federal standards. 1
- Colorado Senate Republican Candidate, Bo Callaway, the fox, is happy to get Brair rabbit, Tim Wirth, to strike the sticky issue of breaking up AT&T. It's a tar baby. Smack him again. 1
- Colorado Senator, Tim Wirth and Democratic congress are stoning President Ronald Reagan's EPA department with money. Taxpayers are not surprised to see that happen. Take THAT, big bureaucracy! 1
- Colorado Springs City Council is a painter trying to paint the sky. He taxes movies, groceries, ice cream but can't figure out how to tax the air. 1
- Colorado Springs Transit System subsidizes fares for the truly needy elderly rider, the truly needy lazy rider, and the truly UNneedy businessman. Guess which person is getting taken for a ride? The city taxpayer, who doesn't ride the bus, that's who. 1
- Colorado State Senate hands Governor Dick Lamm king-like power in handing the emergency powers bill. 1
- Colorado State legislators, Powers, Hefley, and Bob Stephenson think President Carter's 55 Mile and hour speed limit regulation is too slow. They would like to see 65 MPH again. 1
- Colorado roping team heading out to Washington to rope giant government regulation steer. Watt, Gorsuch, and Buford look a bit spooked. 1
- Colorado's Governor Richard Lamm goes to the Federal World amusement park to do business. Things have changed from the times where our forefathers believed strongly in state's rights. 1
- Colorado's Governor Roy Romer thinks the process of the evolution of man will reverse if the tax limitation Amendment #1 passes. 1
- Colorado's Senator Floyd Haskell can't seem to make up his mind if he's for more OSHA regulation of small business or less regulation. He's up for reelection...perhaps he's waiting for polls to come out. It's tough to be wishy-washy sometimes. 1
- Colorado's roads are collapsing. Politicians recommend we deal with that problem with the good, old-fashioned, American ingenuity. We get the federal government to fix our roads. Private enterprise, local and state government is being ignored. 1
- Columbus-like Neo Liberal Senator Gary Hart believes he has discovered a new land with his redistribution ideas. He's landed in the Republican times beach and is claiming the land of capitalism as his own. Actually, he is a redistribution kind of fellow. 1
- Commercial airline flies over country looking at a huge construction project in the shape of a pig. Passenger asks what the project is called. Answer 1
- Comparison of well-known American structures. Statue of Liberty is 305 feet high. Washington Monument, Empire State building, Sears Tower are all small in comparison to frivolous court litigation stacks of paper coming from our courts. 1
- Computer people, Western Union people, Overnight Delivery service people, Fax Service people, E-mail people and UPS [United Parcel Service] people are all dancing in the street. They are celebrating a Postal rate hike announcement. 1
- Congress is filling up his huge pork transportation rig from lady's car at the filling station. 1
- Congress member is carried into a business place by government slaves to see if the business is complying with labor, health and civil rights laws. Employee is reading a newspaper headline saying, "Congress exempt from own laws". 1
- Congress reaches into the pocket of taxpayer eating at restaurant. AARP wants to buy Congressman's lunch. Lobbyist buying favors with our money. 1
- Congress would prefer to dance with their pork projects than the attractive term limit and line-item-veto wallflowers. 1
- Congressmen are making a big deal about locking a door to the capitol building so big corporations won't be able to bring in their soft money to influence our government. What the media is not noticing is that congress is opening a bigger entrance door. 1
- Corruption, crime and lack of morales in Washington, D.C. under the weak leadership of President Carter seems to be at an all-time-high. It's like the days of Rome where the vast empire was about to fall. 1
- Councilman Leon Young comes into crowded fat reduction weight room with huge ice cream Sunday. IT's a $21,000 councilman pay proposal. 1
- Cover page of 1982 year end review. President Ronald Reagan (and his economic program) is tied to a cactus. Federal spending cow has him all wrapped up. 1
- Current welfare system lady is holding a child out the window of a large building. She is on the phone to mom and dad nearby and threatening to drop the child if they want to cut government welfare. 1
- Daddy Reagan gets Junior (state government) a truck to play with. Dad takes over the gas tax for roads. 1
- Daddy and child outweigh government workers, judges, police, teachers, etc. on teeter-totter. One good Daddy carries a lot of weight. 1
- Dan Quayle's little Council of Competitiveness ranch is going to lose it's one cow to the massive Democrat regulators. 1
- Democrat Congressional leaders dressed as doctors don't know where to start cutting spending on tumor-ridden Uncle Sam. 1
- Democrat and Republican parties are in a race but carry a "More Government" banner which catches the wind and slows them down. Pat Buchanan, on a scooter, carries a "Less Government" banner and is picking up speed. 1
- Democrat leaders George Mitchell and Tom Foley are in the DNC lab experimenting with new hatchlings. They are little Taxosaurus Rex babies who grow quite big. 1
- Democratic House Speaker, Tip O'Neil arrives at his office, the day after the election. His secretary says he has a message on his desk. The message, "Stop wasting our money." is written on a very large elephant in his room. 1
- Democratic leaders, Dick Gephardt, Tom Foley and George Mitchell now have a door mat in the White House to announce the era of Congressional gridlock is over. 1
- Democratic leaders, sitting inside a huge limo which burns revenue in giant spending exhaust, can't understand why the President's energy policy doesn't show signs of conservation. Newspaper shows Congress spends $4 more for every $1 in new taxes. 1
- Department of Energy Dinosaur is being measured by US Natural Museum paleontology Department He thinks he just got here in the whole scheme of things. 1
- Douglas Bruce is about to wake up the sleeping state legislature, who are having dreams of tax increases, with his song called, Tax-limitation Reveille. 1
- Drug Czar, Bill Bennett looks a little down as he looks out the window of his huge Drug War Headquarters and watches drug dealers selling crack and other drugs in Washington, D.C. 1
- Education 1
- El Paso County Sheriff Shipley and District Attorney, Bob Russell are engaged in a serious log rolling competition. Actually it's not a log, it's the taxpayer who is getting rolled. 1
- El Paso County citizens would like to see more government programs but don't like to get hit by higher taxes. Politicians offer lots of promises but taxpayers get fooled every time. Dumb as mice, we are. 1
- El Paso County is on life support with DATA management association. It can't look at Bid Right medical supplies. The county commission's attachment to DATA management keeps them from inviting other bidders to compete. Something strange is going on here. 1
- Employers are being thrown into the Federal Mandate Chamber to be subjected to Clinton and Kennedy Health care torture. Clinton can't understand why free enterprise executives are so reluctant to hire new employees. (Original sent to Barry Paschal in GA) 1
- Environmental Political Agency...the dirty truth. Big confrontations with liberals, big government bureaucrats and limited government supporters seem to have the stage while the environment is neglected. 1
- Environmental Protection Agency, sheriff Anne Grouch, has town council polluters in jail. She says, Don't blame me. YOU made the law. 1
- Establishment Elephant soldiers notice the commoners are restless amid the bear attacks and taxing elites. Should the GOP Congress stop building the Washington castle? Heavens no. The democrats are STILL out-spending them. 1
- Ever the big government supporter, the American Association of Retired People (rats) are leaving the soon to be sinking social security ship driven by President Obama and democrats. 1
- Evergreen sent to Creators June 2012 Since politicians know what's best for our health care, why go to medical school? 1
- Every election year, where tax limitation issues on the ballot politicians try to scare the daylights out of people rivaling Hollywood's horror films. (Can't find the original cartoon, yet.) 1
- Family in run-down house wonder what the city-hall folks are fighting about. Historic preservation district officials and council are arguing whether to preserve or condemn the eyesore. 1
- Farmer Bush, with poor fields of produce in Tax-based welfare state wants to help God-type gardener with lots of produce grow things. (God blesses cheerful givers) 1
- Fed Chairman, Paul Volker stands behind a big bank poker player. The bank is raising the bet on sweating, small business player (and his family) from 19 3/4% to 20 %. Now, it's time for a quick game of depression. 1
- Federal budget and tax cut fire truck is powered by lonely donkey. Speaker Tip O'Neill as driver thinks it's a speedy ride. 1
- Fighter pilots Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld and President George W. Bush are heading to their jets. Rumsfeld asks Bush what unAmerican target are they going after today. The target is the U.S. office of strategic influence. 1
- Fish eating fish analogy. Patient is examined by doctor who is being examined by HMO who is being examined by Government... with a lawyer who can have them all for lunch. 1
- Five El Paso County commissioners had an opportunity to raise taxes but instead voted to cut spending. Whoa! Feds call for quarantine. 1
- Following the theme of Alfred Hitchcock's scary movie, "The Birds", mom and pop internet business owners set out to drive away before getting killed by state, city, county and federal tax birds. The attack signal might be coming from Washington, D.C. 1
- Food for peace program gives out free food to starving population. Among the starving (farmer) is the guy looking to survive. His home-grown apple prices can't compete with free apples. Sometimes foreign aid smashes local economies. 1
- Football analogy. President Obama's economic team, Industry takeovers, stimulus plans and more taxes are getting clobbered. He has yet to play is best and biggest player, Spending restraint. He's doubling down with Hail Mary passes. 1
- Football analogy. Evil passes child to beat government nannies team. Good team leader, Family is on the bench. replacement government is getting creamed. 1
- Football analogy. President Jimmy Carter, the Federal government referee, takes sides in free enterprise game. He favors Chrysler in a bail out plan. The auto competitors had better not hit a game official or they will be punished. 1
- Football analogy. Spender defense is organized. Budget cutter offense is not. 1
- Football analogy 1
- Forward thinking Wright brothers, now into Solar Energy, are working on flight. Reagan, now into Nuclear Energy, is into more realistic ground transportation. The debate continues. 1
- Four panels on Bryant Gumbel, hosting NBC's Today news cast is bored with the news about scuds, patriot missiles, Saddam's oil slick and Kuwait's offering to support U.S. war in Iraq but gets excited with the need to discuss need of War tax. 1
- Fourth of July celebrations locally, usually include hot air balloons This seemed like a good time to remind folks how President Carter's promise to balance the budget was full of hot air. Inflation was skyrocketing. 1
- GOP elephant cut a tax tree and fell it on the balanced budget house. Now get ready for the GOP tax increase const. co. 1
- GOP elephants are searching President George H. W. Bush's head for evidence of his views on less government, quotas, tax cuts, privatization. It looks like someone hit the delete button. He IS for a government health care program. 1
- GOP majority leader, Trent Lott is on his last legs. Democrats and Media are trying to save him. GOP elephant tells President George W. Bush that Lott has gotta go. 1
- GOP manager for boxer, President Ronald Reagan is concerned about his large deficit belly. His upper body is OK it's just unusual for a conservative president to run up such a large deficit. It might hurt him in the next election. 1
- GOP prosecution has a surprise witness for the case against President Clinton's Big government; economic defense. It's Bill Clinton's balanced budget. 1
- Gasoline Tax Dollars at work. The tax dollars are divided by Congress. Some actually go to work on our highways, the other half load up on the pork barrel express airline and fly to Washington D.C. 1
- Ghosts of Administrations Past. Panel 1. President George W. Bush has a free market health care policy Reagan would love. Panel 2. But his big government energy policy is one that Jimmy Carter would love. 1
- Giant government, Uncle Sam, tries to fix free enterprise system engine in boat he has sunk. Government doesn't have a clue how to fix a combustion engine. This boat has sunk to the Inflation lake bottom. 1
- Gore and the media entice Bush to meet them half way on health care. Bush travels over from the sold ground of less government across a thin bridge to a more government position. yikes. 1
- Government College Loan Department is huge. Government Loan Collections is a shack. 1
- Government accountants (OSHA, Department of Education. Action, Department of Energy, etc.) are working on their books with quill feathers and red ink. The government seal behind them shows an eagle with no feathers. 1
- Government agents confiscate pipes and tweezers from a smoke shop. The owner asks, "what's the charge?" Agent says, "No charge, we do this for free." Owner says they might as well take his Bill of Rights away also. 1
- Government bureaucrats are switching blood flow back (again) from the taxpayer to Uncle Sam. It's a delicate balance with the revenue sharing policies of the Carter administration. 1
- Government welfare workers are starting to notice a pattern. When they give other peoples' money away for free, demand for more money increases. Duh. 1
- Governor Romer has two huge buddies at the bar (Commerce and Industry and Government Lobbyists) . He asks Amendment # 1 taxpayer about running up tab without permission. Where's the common sense? Reply 1
- Governors and Mayors have access to President Jimmy Carter's candy machine. It offers tax money for roads, housing, etc. for Jimmy Carter support. 1
- Gullible voters are sitting in red ink in a U.S. Government Investment office. Loan sharks, Speaker of the House, Tom Foley, Senate Majority leader, George Mitchell, and candidate Bill Clinton are encouraging them to invest in America. 1
- Having finished his first year in office, President Barack Obama beefs up his political staff (king's men) with an order to patch Humpty Dumpty back together again. The call for more duct tape goes out (again). 1
- Having whipped a smoker, Big Brother Government is calling Next!' to punish coffee drinkers, then chocoholics, beer drinkers, etc. If taxpayers have to pay for everyone's health care, Government should punish unhealthy habits....right? 1
- Hens in the hen house, have discovered the nest eggs they've been sitting on (social security for retirement) only contains an I.O.U. from the federal government. 1
- High wire act 1
- Hillary as nurse, "the government doctor will see you now, Mrs. Jones", newspaper headline, "Government radiation experiments revealed", if you can't trust your government who can you trust? 1
- Hockey analogy 1
- Homeless family camp around a fire and look on the bright side. Sure they lost their jobs because of government-sponsored employer mandates. but they DO have free health care. 1
- Hooray! The Republican Congress was carried out on the shoulders of the people. They saved Social Security. Actually they are carried out on the BACKS of the American taxpayers. Republicans used to stand for limited government. 1
- House Speaker, Jim Wright, is catching lots of pork money in his spider web. 1
- House Speaker, Tip O'Neill and Majority Leader, Jim Wright are walking away from President Ronald Reagan's desk having left a huge, stinky 1987 spending bill saying, I sure hope he signs it. 1
- House Speaker, Tip O'Neill, an obvious tax-dollar, spending junkie wants Uncle Sam (U.S. taxpayers) to give him some more money to help him to make a payment on the deficit. There's a Great Society Bar right next door. Hmmm. 1
- House Speakers, Jim Wright and Tip O'Neil, want to park their Goodie Wagon, featuring burgers and ice cream, right next to the President Ronald Reagan's Boy Scout Budget Cut camp. They want to make the boys hungry. It's good for democrat business. 1
- House speaker Tom Foley and Senate majority leader, George Mitchell laugh at President George H.W. Bush's deficit reduction plan. They don't have to read his lips. They can just watch his nose grow. 1
- House speaker, Tip O'Neill, can't seem to wrestle his credit card to the mat. The budget deficit charge card pinned him again. Would that the credit card would face the scissors (Balance Budget Amendment). 1
- Housing advocate, Mitch Snyder is leaving his family homeless to devote his life to helping the homeless. 1
- How should congress fight the Deficit dragon? Panel 1. Should they fire more tax increases into it's mouth, which makes It grow even larger? Panel 2. Or should they just reduce Gov't spending and starve it to death? Duhh. 1
- How we make laws in the United states 1
- Huge Continental Bank lands on safety net made up with people like you and me. Calls on other banks to leap to safety. 1
- Huge eagle, labeled, "Federal government" is eating a US citizen who thought humans were the TOP of the food chain. Instead of Government servants, we are serving the government. 1
- Huge federal government steam shovel comes dangerously close to 1981-to-1984 tax boundary town. 1
- I think this is one of my funnier cartoons. Imagine how chickens must feel when they see President Bill Clinton and his bureaucrats from the FDA invading their privacy in the hen house! I forget why they wanted to warn folks about raw eggs. 1
- Identity politics are in full swing with our government census takers. After centuries of intermarriage between Spaniards, Native Americans, People of color, etc. they want to ask a question about race. (Apologies to famous painter, Norman Rockwell) 1
- If one wonders how much the Medicare/Medicaid programs are costing us, it's costing taxpayers an arm and a leg. 1
- If police can give out tickets to people driving while using a cell phone, why couldn't they give a ticket to a lady jogger who might cause a motorist distraction? 1
- If you were a crook, which area would you want to avoid? Panel 1. Where vulnerable citizens are all unarmed in a Gun-Free Zone? 2. Where conceal-care is allowed. 1
- In 1773, Tea party protesters were called "American Patriots". Panel 2. Today, Lara Liberal calls them racists, misogynist, Nazis, Homophobes, etc. 1
- In the old days, the family would take care of grandfather. Today, many more families are abandoning gramps to the government to take of. It's kind of sad. 1
- Interior Solicitor Krulitz tells city officials the Fry-Ark water project is SO important and complex, he needs to the turn the whole matter over to the clowns in Congress. 1
- Iran/Contra Special Prosecutor, Lawrence Walsh, is trying to kill a fly with a bazooka. He doesn't give up easily. 1
- It appears the federal government doesn't know how to run a railroad. Two Uncle Sams can't get the rail track to meet. Minimum wage increases and jobs for the needy do not line up. Minimum wage increases always hurt the first-time job seekers. 1
- It looks like almost everyone in Congress is marching to beat of the same drummer. Republicans and Democrats favor minimum wage hikes. The revolution for limited government is over. 1
- It seems the courts have determined THEY, along with Congress, can make laws raising revenue. The courts are moving into the Capitol building. The Supreme Court ruled that a Kansas City judge can force taxpayers to pay for a court-ordered busing plan. 1
- It seems the logic of Republican leadership in Washington, D.C. is to load more government programs on the back of the American people. They promised to reduce the load but believe their chances of being re-elected to office is to increase the load. 1
- It's always the same, every election year. The mice politicians promise the electorate every special interest they can think of but fail to see the the hungry cat called Government Spending lurking behind the curtain. 1
- It's an interesting match up in the big, presidential debates. It's the conservative/moderate/liberal candidate, President Bill Clinton debating the conservative/moderate opponent, Senator (Beltway) Bob Dole. 1
- It's hard to find a GOP candidate who favors less government control nowadays. They are like circus elephants, holding trunk to tail, going around in a circle. Republicans are lacking leadership to set a different direction. 1
- It's tax day. Tax payers dread the punishers from the Internal Revenue Service beating them if they have made too much money for the year. It's a strange system. We punish the successful and give tax breaks to the poor. 1
- It's the three little pig analogy. Savings and Loan people built their house out of sticks, which the wolf blew down. Now the bigwigs are hiding in the taxpayer's brick building. This is getting tiresome for taxpayers to continue protecting big banks. 1
- Jack and the beanstalk analogy. A Giant (Debt) is coming down Production stalk sown by government farm subsidies. Uncle Sam sold the beans to farmers way back in the depression days. 1
- Judge Werker has ruled (pulled up the rope ladder to the tree house) that parents can't enter or observe the sex counseling their children are getting. This ruling is tied to the tax- funded FAMILY planning project. 1
- Just when Public Education is waiting to have school choice break their chains of state government regulation, President Bill Clinton arrives with some new ball and chain federal government regulations. 1
- Killed cartoon. Another difference between British Prime Minister and President H.W. Bush. Margaret Thatcher has a spine. (I think this wasn't published in the Gazette because the editors thought it was too offensive.) 1
- King Kong bureaucracy eats airlines, may be a trick, government regulation of airports. 1
- Labor Union, Senator Kennedy and USSR President Gorbachev all get economic advice from Madame Wrong. She gives advice for big government to use strong wage and price control. 1
- Lady signs agreement for house, agrees to abide by neighborhood covenants. Asks if she can keep pet. No pets. Housing people have problem...her pet is HUD gorilla. She has a discrimination lawsuit. 1
- Lara Liberal knows congress needs to cut spending but she doesn't know WHERE. She and Joe Conservative are walking by a Planned Parenthood office with a U.S. Treasury truck parked in front. Guards are dropping off millions at the abortion office. 1
- Large deficit maiden wonders if she will EVER get rescued as she watches the Spending Dragon with woman's head kissing the fat white knight, Congress. 1
- Law and order folks are likely to pick up pretty hitch hiker (Stiffer prison sentences) who also has a big smelly dog (more tax for prisons). 1
- Lawmakers are hunting for new sources of revenue (sin taxes). Tobacco season is over now they're looking to tax fatty foods. 1
- Lawmakers soak in the Congressional hot tub room (pork-filled barrel) and share stories about President George HW Bush's financial chief, Mr. Darman. They are saying if the White House is not serious about deficit reduction, why should we? 1
- Liberal Major Media Firemen run to put out the racism/poverty fire with More Government Giveaway Programs. Instead of water, the put on Gasoline. 1
- Liberal logic lady, from Health and Humane Services, Department of Education, Department of Agriculture, etc. tells mom, "Hey if we can put a man on the moon, CERTAINLY we should be able to raise your children." Right. 1
- Liberals and media rejoice as Obama prepares in a Moses-like stance to part the Red (ink) Sea. Others wonder how he is going to do that. He's planning a massive public works project, constructing roads, bridges, etc., which will produce more red ink. 1
- Liberals, Moderates, Neo-liberals and Conservatives all are aiming canons at the deficit hiding in the castle. They will knock each other out if fired at once. Dragon is safe. 1
- Like General George Washington crossing the Delaware on Christmas day, the Tea Party, in their quest for fiscal sanity, must cross over to Washington, D.C. to defeat the liberals, establishment Republicans and mainstream media. 1
- Little boy looks at newspaper on the floor with little dots covering everything. They are bugs celebrating the EPA's ban on insecticides. 1
- Little boy sits on Santa's lap and says, "Hey! I'll be happy if I just get my entitlements." 1
- Little boy, Governor Dick Lamm writes veto on tax cut bill. He says that's how to spell, tax relief. GOP teacher says, Wrong. (I think, How do you spell...whatever...comes from a TV commercial.) 1
- Little girl asks dad what Memorial Day is about. Cloud of witness soldier sadly look down from the clouds at Government growth. They gave their lives for freedom...not the ever growing welfare state. 1
- Local delegate is asking an old lady if this where the conference on aging meets. She says, yep and you see long range shot of ping pong table with paddle labeled Politics. She's the ball. 1
- Look what the cat dragged in 1
- Look. I'm having a tough time making ends meet. Fork over more dough. Panel 1. said by Dumb employee to his private enterprise boss. Panel 2. said by Compassionate legislature to the taxpayers. 1
- Love your Mother (earth) Republicrat gives a speech saying, My fellow Americans, a vote for me is vote for clean air, clean water...Taxpayer continues...clean billfolds. 1
- Mail men used to have to watch out for dogs. Now three cent postage stamp increase bring citizens to bite his legs. 1
- Mailmen arrest a woman at an Overnight Delivery Service who wanted to mail a non-urgent letter through a competitive marketplace service. 1
- Man answers door and sees Christ. He says, "Boy, am I glad to see you." In his house are monsters labeled,Terrorism, Big government, Cancer, Crime, Commie threat, Occult, Pride, lunatics, etc. 1
- Man eats breakfast. There is a government warning about eggs being dangerous for health so he threw the eggs in the trash can. Radio news broadcaster now announces eggs are OK but bacon is dangerous. 1
- Man visits medical doctor complaining about his pain in the neck. Doctor doesn't see the pain is caused by a blood-sucking vampire labeled, Hidden Taxes, like sales tax, food tax, withholding taxes, etc. 1
- Man with lawnmower is getting ticket by EPA officer. Walks off...gotta have a cigarette...Hold it! (Earth day cartoon. I think there was a story about how much pollution lawnmowers add to the air that stirred this cartoon) 1
- Mary Poppins (Reagan) is singing about "User" Sugar taken with Gas tax medicine with get Uncle Sam back in health. 1
- Meanwhile, back at the cabinet meeting....President Obama's cabinet members are bored, playing cards and wondering where the President is. He's still in a meeting with his czars. (Obama's czars have growing influence in policy.) 1
- Moderate Republicans are trying to fool people by leading the happy faced GOP elephant backward toward more tax. President Ronald Reagan must be blind to follow the moderate's lead. (Another reason for rise of tea party) 1
- Modern, new minimum wage street sweeper is going to run over little entry level jobs. Every time congress passes new minimum wage bills entry level jobs are lost. 1
- Modern-day Western Saga 1
- Mountain Bell's long-time slogan, Let your fingers do the walking. might be in trouble. The breakup of AT&T into 22 Bell companies may produce local rate increases. 1
- NEW WORLD ORDER...Which is it? Panel 1. Where all people live under the law, like Iraq's Saddam Hussein getting arrested... Panel 2. ...or where we all live under the watch of and obey HIS rule of law? 1
- National Endowment for the Arts guide tells art museum visitors about a three dimensional depiction showing the form of a struggling man. It's entitled, "The Reluctant Taxpayer." 1
- National Health Care Operation room. The problem is with the big toe. The Republicans are planning to cut on the heart and the Democrats are operating on the head. Poor us. 1
- Native American Governor Dick Lamm is asking for more arrows to attack Colorado developer wagon train. Arrow handed to him by economic stagnation death hand. 1
- Neal-Schaefer Tax relief plan 1
- Network anchors, Dan Rather, Peter Jennings and Tom Brokaw are waterways for the Tax increaser football team, Tom Foley, George Mitchell and Dan Rostenkowsky. 1
- Never before have I seen Congress so divided into two camps. To watch President Obama's State of the Union address was like watching the wall in East and West Berlin. (it seems it's gotten worse even today.) 1
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- News item. FDA wants tougher warning labels on cigarettes. Why stop there? Why not start another jobs program and hire professional, nagging, liberal bureaucrats to shame and harass smokers? 1
- News item. Two eagles building a nest on a structure could hold up a popular traffic project in Washington, D.C. Senator Snort is upset. Their endangered species act was only supposed to block progress in the Western states. 1
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- News. State lawmakers "protect" children by collecting a candy and soda tax. Obese bullies prey upon fat kids. 1
- Now President Obama is MAD! Republicans aren't being responsible drivers so he's running over everyone with his irresponsible spending bus. Get out of the way! 1
- Obama's message, boiled down "Yes, we can! Yes, we can!" a huge crowd of democrats shout. Near by a wife asks husband, "Can WHAT?" Husband replies, "Take our money from us." 1
- Odd size 'toon showing format of popular six-difference strip. Panel two shows larger police, no religious freedom, no press freedom, few smiles, etc. 1
- Once again Congress returns to wrestle with the huge deficit. Both democrats and republicans are feeding chickens to the huge deficit alligator. Capitol hill gator wrestlers logo on the pickup. 1
- Once again, with huge fires burning in western states, the people on the east coast are telling us how to solve our problems. They don't think we should develop land so close to the forests. They already wiped out their forests. 1
- Our cowboy leaders are taking us off the trail. President George W. Bush and the GOP are taking all of us cattle to big government Washington, D.C. Perhaps they have mad cow disease. 1
- Outcome-based Yarmouth High School in Maine, requires students to perform 60 hours of "voluntary" community service before graduation. Students working on highway look same as Alabama prisoners doing the same thing. 1
- Overregulation can kill whole industries. For instance, when the federal government puts the Lynx on it's Endangered Species list, it gives the cat a power saw to bring the logging industry down. 1
- Panel 1. Uncle Sam is in economic sick bed (due to President George H. W. Bush). Doctor (Senate majority leader) George Mitchell offers patient some hope. Panel 2. Uncle asked which fine doctor he would like to have treat him. Choices are not good. 1
- Panel 1-2. Republican voters are disappointed to find the representatives they sent to Congress to reduce the size of government are not walking the talk. The footprints they leave are just like the democrat donkey's tracks. 1
- Panel 1-2. A survey revealed people who live in red states are more compassionate in giving to the poor (out of their own resources) than people in the blue states. What does that say about compassion in America? 1
- Panel 1-2. In 1780, President George Washington controlled the hooded government eagle. In 1980 the unhooded government eagle controls President Jimmy Carter. Government bureaucracy rules. 1
- Panel 1-2. In Washington, D.C., Congress is pouring a lot of tax money in pork projects like building a very expensive bridge to nowhere in Alaska. Maybe it would be a better idea to rebuild some Hurricane Katrina bridges in the Gulf. 1
- Panel 1-2. The Obama campaign had hope for a change. The economy is doing better but because of his energy program, the price of gasoline is going up and about to sweep his little gas driven boat down Inflation Falls. 1
- Panel 1-2. The ever-growing welfare government programs seem to be harming the economy. President Obama's IRS takes money for Bob's All-You-Can-Eat restaurant and delivers it to Obama's All-You-Can-Eat-For FREE Restaurant. 1
- Panel 1-2. Colorado's Governor Hickenlooper and the Congress are looking to build a road up "Cannabis Pass". Colorado voters wanted them to legalize pot. Now the problem is putting up guardrails to protect children from harm of the very dangerous road. 1
- Panel 1-2. If the Supreme Court says government can FORCE citizens to buy health insurance...couldn't it also force citizens to buy American cars or cars made in right-to-work states? 1
- Panel 1-2. Liberals believe shooting crimes are connected to gun violence. I'd say the crimes are committed by bad people who use guns. I'd rather see the bad guys locked up. 1
- Panel 1-2. You could hardly find a more opposite group that the Occupy Wall Street crowd and the Tea Party patriots. But they find common ground in their dislike of big government corporate welfare. The establishment big wigs have a problem here. 1
- Panel 1-3. British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher Gone...But not Forgotten. Her famous observation about Socialism, repeated three times, is still not heard by President Obama and the socialist American class. 1
- Panel 1-3. Lawmakers are taking over the role of moral authority from parents. Our children would be lost if lawmakers didn't warn them about the dangers of smoking, drinking, guns, intolerance, obesity, pornography, steroids, etc. 1
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- Panel 1-3. Which Health Care providers do YOU trust? Your doctor, who listens to your heart? Your Health Maintenance Organization (Insurance provider) who checks out your financial health? Or President Bill Clinton and big government bureaucrats? 1
- Panel 1-3. In Washington, D.C. people in Congress and The Federal Reserve understand the humor of Spanish officials building their way out of their housing glut but now they seem to want to try that here in America. 1
- Panel 1-3. When big government environmentalists get busy stepping on property owner's rights, Lady Liberty gets further and further away and harder to see. 1
- Panel 1-4. Environmentalists seem to want to kill Americans by encouraging them to buy smaller cars, which are more dangerous. Terrorists in the Middle East are finding this liberal, politically correct practice of killing Americans almost too easy. 1
- Panel 1-4. Man sniffing the air to test for poisonous gas. OSHA goes in Union Carbide safety office to sniff in the right place. Oversize toon. 1
- Panel 1-4. Public school teacher, Lara Liberal, can't understand why American kids are so fat nowadays. She has removed all of the active games, like dodgeball, tag, chasing, hugging, etc. that used to be played at recess. 1
- Panel 1-4. Sometime, perhaps, in the not-to-distant future...the federal government will open up thousands of new acres of breathtaking wilderness areas but they won't be open to the public. 1
- Panel 1-4. The Republican party is a mess. They want to win elections but can't seem to tell the electorate what they will stand for. Some would stand for limited government, but that's too extreme for others (who stand for more spending). 1
- Panel 1-4. The U.S. Supreme Court limited the scope of the 1990 Federal Americans with Disabilities Act (just a teeny bit). Among the people who sought to be classified as disabled were two nearsighted twins who wanted to be airline pilots. Go figure. 1
- Panel 1-4. The marketplace folks provide citizens with food, shelter and clothing, and do a pretty good job. However, big government, who which is supposed to provide citizens, exclusively, with Justice, are a mess. 1
- Panel 1-4. Three pigs analogy. The pigs are bored and unproductive cooped up in the brick house. They'd like to create jobs but the big government wolf is still out there. 1
- Panel 1-4. Two men riding in a polluting car are going through cloud of pollution. The passenger thinks they can't do anything to change their driving habits. They have to wait for government to do something. It turns out they are government employees. 1
- Panel 1-4. White House workers are rounding up children, stacking them up, and placing a table top on them, so President George W. Bush can sign the big Medicare Bill. 1
- Panel 1-4. As social media technology advances the capability of the hight tech giants, Face book, Microsoft, Yahoo and Google to follow our every move is getting scary. 1
- Panel 1-4. Despite a lousy economy, banks will need to add more offices to house employees needed to keep in compliance with the Dodd-Frank rules. 1
- Panel 1-4. Doctors are preparing for a big operation. One doctor is looking at thermometer and tells the surgeon the earth's temperature is normal. Surgeon announces they need to go ahead with the very expensive operation anyway. 1
- Panel 1-4. Poker game analogy. The Republican Congress gets beat on lowering tax rates, but they still have hope of winning entitlement cuts. President Obama counters with a tax loopholes offer. The Republican Congress is going to lose again. 1
- Panel 1-4. Uncle Sam hands out a social security raise to an elderly couple, then takes it back so they can pay for their higher medical insurance premiums. When are we going to stop trusting big government? 1
- Panel 1-4. When people work in the marketplace, they need to do what the boss wants them to do or they get fired. When government officials work for We the people, they don't feel they need to do what we want them to do. How do they get away with that? 1
- Panel 1-4. When the government employs people but then applies Indian preference or Veteran preference in the hiring practice, it seems they should remove the notice on the employment forms that the government is an equal opportunity employer. 1
- Panel 1-4. Young man is planning for his future. He can't decide whether to go to Harvard or become a prison guard in California. Father advises him to go for the big bucks. California, ever the big spending state, pays prison guards the big bucks. 1
- Panel 1-5. A taxpayer has an economic dilemma. If he votes for presidential candidate, Steve Forbes, he will be voting for a flat tax plan, which will benefit him but will benefit the rich people even more. Ah...the horror! 1
- Panel 1-5. It's a story about a man who built a better mousetrap. The world did, indeed, beat a path to his door. Well, big government officials beat a path to his door with their rules and regulations. They killed the poor fella. 1
- Panel 1-5. News. Senator Harkin's committee works on insolvent pension plans. It's the Humpty Dumpty story all over again. All of the King's horses and all the King's men work on a problem THEY helped create. 1
- Panel 1-5. Democrat and Republican congressmen are sharpening their knives. They aren't preparing for the election or to cut spending. They are preparing to have a knife fight with anyone who wants to cut pork in their district. 1
- Panel 1-5. Planned Parenthood has been in business aborting children for 40 years in America. The cartoon and the poem follows a cleaning woman cleaning up the blood in the abortion room. Uncle Sam reminds us of our shame. 1
- Panel 1-5. President Obama is on the road looking for voters. He is driving a wagon that carries LOTS of money, which he throws out generously to his constituents. It's like the government feeding the pigs with taxpayer dough. 1
- Panel 1-6. A government agent from the FDA tells some women they shouldn't be smoking E-cigarettes. The government doesn't have studies yet that the cigarettes harm fetuses, but they MIGHT. Right...as if abortion doesn't harm unborn children. 1
- Panel 1-6. Conservative voters did not vote for big spending, Washington establishment congressmen to sit on the beach with Ms. Beltway getting a suntan. Big elephant, bully knows that but but he abuses them anyway. Who else are they going to vote for? 1
- Panel 1-6. Federal Reserve Chairman, Alan Greenspan is training a new man for the job, Ben Bernanke. It a very complicated job but the actual work might be figuring out which way to turn the handle. 1
- Panel 1-6. Non-smokers have the economic clout to get the government to outlaw smoking everywhere. Property rights are toast. (They will be coming after gun owners next.) 1
- Panel 1-6. President Obama is the emcee of the program announcing the new year. Old man 2012, all beat up, is exiting and the little new year baby is very reluctant to come in. Audience feels they need more survival gear to get through 2013. 1
- Panel 1-6. President Obama's HHS secretary, Kathleen Sebelius, can make decisions that used to belong to a patient and the doctor. The federal government is the paymaster, therefore the government (customer) is always right. 1
- Panel 1-6. Protecting the environment is important. The Environmental Protection gets credit for cleaning up America's air. Now they've switched into a more powerful setting and are cleaning out farmers, business, etc. 1
- Panel 1-6. Slave ship analogy 1
- Panel 1-6. Sometime, perhaps, in the future...a typical family will be visited by the IRS who will order the dad to get to work. The courts have ruled that the federal government can regulate inactivity of Americans if they fail to sign up for Obamacare. 1
- Panel 1-6. The PBS head honcho is asking his staff which issues that they are going to cover is most important in their audience. He names every liberal issue they can think of but ignores the terrorist threat next door. 1
- Panel 1-6. We had an election. We, the people spoke. We elected limited-government types to run the government in Washington, D.C. We now seem to be getting shaken down by liberal Republicans. 1
- Panel 1-6. As Coloradans drive from county to county, they have to show their guns or are allowed to conceal them. Different counties have different laws regarding handgun conceal-carry regulation. A state law would remedy that problem quickly. 1
- Panel 1-6. Down your chimney she'll come. President Obama's EPA secretary, Lisa Jackson, is like the Grinch who stole Christmas. In her zeal to fight climate control she will steal loot from our children to fight her war on soot. 1
- Panel 1-6. President George W. Bush returns a rich person's wallet without taking any money out of it. Senator Ted Kennedy calls Bush irresponsible. The rich person may still get a tax cut. Bush doesn't even CARE about the government needs. 1
- Panel 1-8. A song about gun purchases (sung to the tune of Santa Claus is coming to town). It's about gun checks. If a person wants to purchase a gun and has a record, he'd better watch out. He could be arrested. Big brother is watching. 1
- Panel 1-8. Just when a local control fella finds a nice quiet place to enjoy nature, Vice President Al Gore camps out along side him and makes a lot of noise about wanting more open space. What a pest. 1
- Panel 1-8. President Obama kicked the debt can down the road in his first year in office, his second year and the third year. He might not get a chance to kick the can down the road to finish out his last year in office. 1
- Panel 1. A Volunteer project shows volunteers pulling a person out of quicksand. Panel 2. A government program shows President Clinton and the IRS pushing taxpayers into quicksand to rescue victim. 1
- Panel 1. A problem...The compassionate socialist (social engineer) is always wanting to feed hungry people...but can't. Panel 2. The challenge...Greedy businessmen are always feeding hungry people (with market place ideas). 1
- Panel 1. AARP (American Association of Retired Persons) has a huge office filled with workers engaged in lobbying Congress. Panel 2. The office where they poll their membership is a lonely man with nothing to do. 1
- Panel 1. Al Gore lectures parents about valuing our children. Panel 2. Values like education, health care, environment are important. Panel 3. We need to put our money where his (Huge, government machine) mouth is. 1
- Panel 1. America won the battle with the Brits over taxation issues... Panel 2. ...but lost the war. Our government taxes the daylight out of us. (Original sent to Walter Williams) 1
- Panel 1. Back in 1964, President Johnston declared a war on poverty. Panel 2. An actual graph shows Government spending on education, social services medical cost, etc. to demonstrate poverty is winning. 1
- Panel 1. Big government; Senator Bob Dole says he is for smaller government. Panel 2. shows he is standing on speech police truck and adding official English...flag protection...etc. 1
- Panel 1. Bob Dole and elephant are in a hot air balloon. Dole throws off a sand bag (gay republican donation) Panel 2. Long view shows they have no lift because the balloon is attached to the capitol dome. (Senator Dole is a big government republican) 1
- Panel 1. Citizens can travel through Windows I with ease. People go in to find things and come out with supplies. Panel 2. However, Attorney General Reno and Judge Jackson have changed everything in a convoluted Windows II ruling. 1
- Panel 1. Citizens don't like beggars holding cardboard signs. Panel 2. One of the beggars is councilman John Hazlehurst who is holding a sign "Will work for more tax $." He wonders, "What's wrong with this town?" 1
- Panel 1. Congress is glad to make a budget deal with President Bill Clinton. The GOP got a tax break. (A little piece of paper.) Panel 2. Bill Clinton and the democrats got a wagon load of more government. 1
- Panel 1. Couple approaches US mail box. Panel 2. Opens mail box window to drop in taxes. Panel 3. Mail box changes to Reagan face which swallows the envelope. Panel 4. Couple walks away hating it when mail boxes say, gulp . 1
- Panel 1. Everyone complains when the weatherman misses the forecast. Panel 2. But when the federal government wants to close the weather station in Colorado Springs the locals cry and beg the weatherman to stay. 1
- Panel 1. Farm Aid with Willy Nelson. Panel 2. Farm aid with Uncle Sam helping farmer. Panel 3. Farm Reality...oversupply of grain. 1
- Panel 1. Federal Brush and Tax salesman meets closed door. Panel 2. He goes away. Panel 3. Citizens rejoice. Panel 4. ...and find a State Brush and Tax salesman in the kitchen. 1
- Panel 1. Free market design 1
- Panel 1. Hollywood and Media see big government dogs have big tobacco men trapped. Media say They're just protecting the children. Tobacco is linked to cancer. Panel 2. They'd better start running because study shows the media link to violence. 1
- Panel 1. In the old days Uncle Sam was small and respected States' Rights. Panel 2. Now, with Federal mandates and Highway Funds, he steps right over the wall of separation. 1
- Panel 1. In the olden days it was...(picture of State government buildings around the same size as the Washington capitol. Panel 2. Now it's...(Federal capitol building dominates panel while state capitol buildings grow smaller). 1
- Panel 1. It used to be the FDA would make a suggestion for citizens to eat their spinach. Panel 2. The way Congress would like to make it, You WILL eat your spinach. 1
- Panel 1. It used to be..."We the People". Forefathers wrote about limiting government in the Constitution. Panel 2. Now it's..."WEE people". Small people request more government from large government leaders. They think that's great. 1
- Panel 1. It used to be...when buyers bought a house on a hillside they would measure the risk for their investment. Panel 2. Now FEMA bailout plans put taxpayers at risk to bail out foolish investors. 1
- Panel 1. It's a new year. Uncle Sam hopes to get rid of partisan bickering, activist judge, pork-barrel spending and sue-happy lawyers. Panel 2. it doesn't look like that's going to happen. 1
- Panel 1. Law-abiding citizens visiting our National Parks could not pack heat. They feel defenseless and exposed. Panel 2. President George W. Bush changed the rule and now law-abiding citizens can carry guns. 1
- Panel 1. Man reaches into his pocket to give to the needy. God loves a cheerful giver. Panel 2. IRS agent shakes down taxpayer. Government, on the other doesn't care if you're cheerful or not. 1
- Panel 1. Men clearing sidewalks ask neighbor Fred how he can keep his unsightly RV in his driveway. Panel 2. Fred says he got his (very ugly) RV subsidized by the national Endowment for the Arts. 1
- Panel 1. Mother Government asks child if he can handle it now. Panel 2. She holding a full grown State's rights truck driver on her lap. She may allow him to drive his truck (set speed limit) someday. Whoopee! 1
- Panel 1. National Endowment for the Arts have new GOP management. Voter statement 1994 . Panel 2. GOP statement so far 1
- Panel 1. New item 1
- Panel 1. Out with the old...Tom Foley pulls big government Capitol dome.. Panel 2. In with the NEWT...baby Gingrich comes in with Budget cutter scythe. 1
- Panel 1. PBS, NEA, EPA, HHS, Dept. of Ed, OSHA. etc. look worried seeing elephants going to Washington. Panel 2. worry, worry. Panel 3. They all stand relieved to see elephants have grown donkey ears. (This is why "drain-the-swamp" is so important.) 1
- Panel 1. Politicians are looking at a Joe Camel billboard. They hate it when tobacco companies target and try to manipulate impressionable minds. Panel 2. They miss seeing their own billboards targeting impressionable minds. That's their area. 1
- Panel 1. President Bill Clinton says, Parents should not have to choose between their jobs and their children. 2. When you see stay-at-home moms paying more taxes so working moms can get government benefits, the choice should be obvious. 1
- Panel 1. President Clinton and helper are rolling a huge boulder, labeled "Clinton Program" up a hill. When the going gets tough... Panel 2. ...the Smart get going. Senator Mitchell is running away. 1
- Panel 1. Presidential candidate, Senator John Kerry and Vice-Presidential candidate, Senator John Edwards are hiding behind a tree hoping to avoid contact with someone. Panel 2. They are hiding from Kerry's liberal voting record in the senate. 1
- Panel 1. Railroad barons built the first railroad by hiring cheap labor. Some of them were called "Coolies". Panel 2. Today's Government supported railway, Amtrak, does the same thing. The cheap labor is called, "taxpayers". 1
- Panel 1. Reagan preaches small government sermon, big oil says, "Amen". Panel 2. Reagan preaches free enterprise. "Amen" again from big oil Panel 3. Preaches get rid of Synfuels...crony capitalism. Panel 4. Amen, brother? 1
- Panel 1. Reagan tax break story sold by paper boy. Tax breaks for the poor. Panel 2. Tax breaks for the middle class. Panel 3. Everybody happy. Panel 4. Tax breaks for the rich. Panel 5. Now poor and middle class grumble. 1
- Panel 1. Republican voters always vote for the GOP elephants, who say they favor limited government. But when they get into office... Panel 2. ...they always seem to return as big porkers. 1
- Panel 1. Senator Bill Bradley has a Robin Hood tax plan. Take from the rich (FAT CAT Bread wagon). Panel 2. ...and raise prices for the poor (Corporation doesn't pay tax...WE do) 1
- Panel 1. Shows how voluntarism works. Man plays Santa and asks people for money to help the poor. Panel 2. Shows Collectivism...Uncle Sam Santa holds gun to man to force him to give money to the poor. 1
- Panel 1. Some Colorado state officials want that $416 million in surplus tax money to INVEST in roads, education, etc. Panel 2. If the people who paid the surplus tax dollars want to use their own money, it's called being SELFISH. 1
- Panel 1. The Picture...Armed Government agent enters house by force to take little Elian back to Cuba. Panel 2. The concern...armed Bill Clinton takes our Bill of Rights by force. 1
- Panel 1. The federal government would like to hire a lot more IRS agents to snoop through our tax returns. Panel 2. The taxpayers might want to think about a national sales tax plan and cut off the power going to the Internal Revenue Service building. 1
- Panel 1. The old west shows three cowboys riding free. Panel 2. The current west shows state cowboys all riding horses with Mother Federal Government riding on the back. She tells the state whether they are going too fast, be cautious, hold tight, etc. 1
- Panel 1. U.S. Postal workers in a horse and buggy service offer rides for 29 cents. Fax machines, Overnight service, etc. seem to be passing them by. Panel 2. In order to compete, they raise the price of rides to 32 cents. That's better. 1
- Panel 1. What America USED to stand for 1
- Panel 1. When I was a farm kid and spotted a majestic eagle landing in a tree, I was filled with joy. Panel 2. Nowadays, if a farmer spots an eagle building a nest on his land, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife folks are going to make his life miserable. 1
- Panel 1. -3 Donkey and Elephant argue about Government Health Care and Free market ideas. Panel 4. Elephant adds, with more Government oversight. Panel 5. Deal. Panel 6. Argument starts again. Panel 7. GOP lost again. 1
- Panel 1. A bad welfare program has long line of people waiting for welfare checks. Panel 2. A good welfare program has short line of people waiting and lots of the people working. There is honor in work. 1
- Panel 1. A company boss has a visit from some strong-arm people who are offering to protect his business if he accepts a deal he can't refuse. Panel 2. No. They are not from the mafia. They're from the U.S. Government. The boss runs a tobacco company. 1
- Panel 1. A family having beans for supper see their pig herding Congressmen, as cowboys, bringing home the bacon. Panel 2. If their Congressman was a tax-cutter, they might be able to eat steak instead of beans. 1
- Panel 1. A managed forest has been mitigated to reduce dead fuel. It has less chance of having damaging forest fires. Panel 2. Wilderness areas are filled with dead wood. Fires are usually uncontainable. I would rather be a tree in a managed forest. 1
- Panel 1. After the election, taxpayers are happy to see big spenders, like SenatorTom Daschle and Senator Robert Byrd leave power. Panel 2. Taxpayers look worried as big porkers, like Senator Trent Lott and Senator Ted Stevens enter. 1
- Panel 1. Agnes Jones is worried about identity theft so she shreds all her mail. Panel 2. Agnes Jones doesn't seem to have a problem with the crooks that might be working at the National ID Center knowing everything about her. 1
- Panel 1. At a for-profit medical care facility, a patient can ask to see a doctor and the attendant says, What time?" Panel 2. At a "free" medical facility, the same attendant asks, "What year?" 1
- Panel 1. Bus driver opens door to passengers and asks, lift? Panel 2. Long view shows the passengers are really taxpayers who have the replaced the bus wheels. They have to Lift the subsidized transit bus and keep it going. 1
- Panel 1. Capt. Reagan confronts drunken sailor Jim Wright about addiction problem. Panel 2. It's part of the problem. Panel 3. Reagan drinks from the bottle... Panel 4. ...Unless you're suffering from a catastrophic illness. 1
- Panel 1. Clinton wants to hire policemen Panel 2. Newt wants block grants for states. Panel 3. People wish they would spend less of our money. 1
- Panel 1. Colorado Springs City council (all named) ask for vote on rezoning the Hillside overlay land for developer without just compensation, signify by saying, Panel 2. .... give us your wallet! (They want to pull a robbery on the developer.) 1
- Panel 1. Congress finds problem in EPA director, Anne Gorsuch (Burford's) car...she tried to put it in reverse. (reduce spending) Panel 2. House Speaker Tip O'Neill, the mechanic, informs her It's a government car. Government cars don't have a reverse. 1
- Panel 1. Congressman asks for democratic vote on pornographic art supported by tax dollars. Panel 2. Everyone votes "No" but the National Endowment for the Arts artist cancels their vote balloons saying , "You can't censor art." 1
- Panel 1. Conservatives view gun safety as classes teaching people how to safely use their guns. Panel 2. Liberals view gun safety as government official removing guns from law-abiding citizens. 1
- Panel 1. Democrats don't have any new ideas, they just pick, pick, pick on the popular president George W. Bush. Panel 2. Republicans don't have any new ideas. They just steal big government programs from the Democrats. Limited Government? What's that? 1
- Panel 1. Elephants enter the Capitol dome. Uncle Sam is happily asleep. Panel 2. Capitol dome awaits action. Panel 3. Elephants with donkey ears come out carrying yet more big government programs. It's a nightmare. 1
- Panel 1. Former republican house speaker, Newt Gingrich, dressed as a patriot minute man, takes a shot at a socialism spending plan. Panel 2. He shoots fellow minute man, house speaker Paul Ryan in the arm. Oops. 1
- Panel 1. Government Air Traffic controllers work overtime to keep planes safe. Panel 2. Not so in the State Department. Secretary Hillary Clinton watches Iran building a nuclear bomb and still believes Syria's Assad is a reformer. 1
- Panel 1. If Uncle Sam chooses to make things right (give black people tax money for historic mistreatment)... Panel 2. ...Taxpayers will have to give money to Native Americans, Chinese, Irish, etc. also. 1
- Panel 1. In 1994, the bureaucrats hanging out in the Washington, D.C. entitlements saloon witnessed a new sheriff in town. It was a no nonsense GOP Congress. Panel 2. In 1997, we see the GOP sheriff is drinking with the crowd. 1
- Panel 1. In France, today, protesters are engaged in rage. They are not happy with their Socialist leaders failing to meet their needs. Panel 2. That same thing will happen in California tomorrow. 1
- Panel 1. In the old days, it was...Aristocrats who live at the expense of the serfs. Panel 2. Now it's...Government officials live at the expense of the uninformed voters. We get the government we deserve and vote for. 1
- Panel 1. In the old days, when gold was discovered in the mountains, boom towns, like banks, hotels, lumber stores would grow up fast. Panel 2. Nowadays, when big government grows, litigious lawyers and regulators need more law offices and courts. 1
- Panel 1. It USED to be...if a person had a weight problem he thought of going on a diet. Panel 2. NOW if he has a weight problem, he thinks of petitioning his Congressman to pass more regulations on fatty foods. 1
- Panel 1. It looks like someone is targeting a lady who is buying a rifle at a gun shop. Panel 2. It's the Federal Bureau of Investigation who is targeting (Linda Smith, age 32, single, etc.) Big Brother is watching. 1
- Panel 1. It seems like every time conservative voters send a budget watchdog to Washington, D.C. .. Panel 2. ...he comes back as a trained monkey who collects money for the big government establishment. 1
- Panel 1. It used to be long lines of people would be seen at the government-run Post Office. Panel 2. If we get government-run health care, you will see more long lines. 1
- Panel 1. It used to be police chased after bootleggers. Panel 2. Now, police chase after cigarette smugglers. Panel 3. Soon it will be big government food police chase after fatty burger makers. 1
- Panel 1. It used to be...Prospectors would say, "Thar's gold in them thar hills." Animals run. Panel 2. Al Gore sees great wealth in the endangered species act. Taxpayers and property owners run. 1
- Panel 1. John Q. Public, the Forest Service and a Save the Earth environmentalist try to AFFIX the blame on each other for the forest fire disasters. Panel 2. Perhaps we can all SHARE the shame. We could say, We're sorry to the forest. 1
- Panel 1. Lady Liberty encourages Americans to make a new resolution. Panel 2. She is hoping we can force big, big, (obese) government (Uncle Sam) to go on a diet. (Fat chance). 1
- Panel 1. Liberal Banquet speaker introduces President George H. W. Bush, The Education President. Panel 2. Crowd unimpressed. Panel 3. Bush...the Environmental President. Panel 4. Yawn! 5. The Spending President? 6. Libs give him a warm reception. 1
- Panel 1. May we never forget the roaming Buffalo... Panel 2. the Nomadic Indian... Panel 3. the soaring Eagle... Panel 4. ...the powerful Grizzly... Panel 5. ...the wild Mustang... Panel 6. ...the unsound Landowner. 1
- Panel 1. Mom leaves work place with baby. She says, So long, boss. Make sure you hold my job for me and continue my health benefits for 10 weeks. Panel 2. Big Brother Pat Schroeder with gun at boss' back says, "Don't worry. He will." 1
- Panel 1. News about awful care for veterans at Walter Reed hospital looks like a nightmare. Federal bureaucracy is on display. Panel 2. Coming soon to our theatre is another nightmare called Hillarycare. 1
- Panel 1. Old-fashioned voluntarism shows Boy Scout helping an old lady cross the street. Panel 2. Bill Clinton's Voluntarism is Government holds money carrot in front of a national service program lad who helps a lady cross the road. 1
- Panel 1. Overweight Conservatives believe own their obesity problem. Panel 2. Overweight liberals think their obesity problem is America's problem. 1
- Panel 1. People in the Soviet Union stand in lines to get bread. Panel 2. Americans stand in lines to get postage stamps. (Note 1
- Panel 1. People on farm remember the floods in the midwest were told things couldn't get worse. Panel 2. Wetlands preservation officials from the EPA parachute to the farm can certainly make it worse. 1
- Panel 1. President Barack Obama needs more money. Panel 2. He plans to get another loan from China thus giving American children more "hope and chains." 1
- Panel 1. President George H.W. Bush was pursued by the media on the Iran-Contra report. He had an out-of-the-loop excuse. Panel 2. President George W. Bush was asked about man-caused global warming. He can say, It's from the bureaucracy. 1
- Panel 1. President George HW Bush would LIKE to give an aid package to President Endara of Panama and President Chamorro of Nicaragua... Panel 2. But the Congress keeps attaching strings for their domestic pork projects to it. 1
- Panel 1. President Obama spots the problem with Uncle Sam's health. He is eating too much "spending" ice cream. Panel 2. Obama fixes the problem by changing the name of the ice cream to "investments". (Part of his state of the union address) 1
- Panel 1. President Obama, donning his Superman goggles says they (the EPA and Interior Department) will now focus like a laser on jobs. Panel 2. The large picture shows they will focus on creating GOVERNMENT jobs and blowing away private sector jobs. 1
- Panel 1. President Obama, his union buddies, college kids, elderly passengers, etc., make a request to the free market and job creator oarsmen. Panel 2. They need to row faster. The Enitlement Nation is about to go over the falls. 1
- Panel 1. President Ronald Reagan gives a state keys to the car. States are mature enough to figure out their own speed limit. Panel 2. The president drives off with the state's highway funds. States don't have big brother's wisdom on drinking age. 1
- Panel 1. Shows British soldiers (chasing chickens) taking over private land. That's expressly FORBIDDEN in the 3rd Amendment. Panel 2. Now our government expressly REQUIRES in the endangered species act. (Grizzly chases chickens). 1
- Panel 1. Space shuttle finally passes rigid safety requirements. Panel 2. Countdown starts. Panel 3. Countdown halted. Panel 4. They have to wait for an opening in space. Soviets dominate space now. 1
- Panel 1. Taxpayers are working on the chain gang. Panel 2. Prisoners are taking life easy...playing games, watching TV and reading in the prison recreation room. 1
- Panel 1. The Democratic Congress treated Auto Industry CEOs with contempt during the hearings. Panel 2. Now they are treating innocent taxpayers with contempt (as clowns) to get us to bail out the auto industry. 1
- Panel 1. The President wants a capital gains cut on the budget Congress is working on. Panel 2. Democrats say, No way, Jose! Panel 3. The media say, The President is holding up progress on a budget agreement. (Yawn! it's still that way today.) 1
- Panel 1. The first time Hillary tried to get government-sponsored health care bill passed, she tried to get the public to swallow the whole big pill. Panel 2. This time, her proposals consist of many, many smaller pills. It's all the same medicine. 1
- Panel 1. Tourist are touring a swamp in a small boat. Panel 2. They are very impressed. Panel 3. After the tour they unload at the Washington office and wonder when House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, is going to start draining the swamp. 1
- Panel 1. Two men look at a billboard of Ross the Boss (Perot). One is not sure if he is going to vote for him. Panel 2. There is something about Ross Perot that makes him feel uneasy. The eyes of Perot on the billboard follows the men as they walk away. 1
- Panel 1. Two teens see a Now hiring sign in Farley's Fast Food Place. Inside owners see a report the congress upped the minimum wage. Panel 2. Three teens walk out of Farley's where sign is replaced with sign saying, Now Firing. 1
- Panel 1. Using children's art, the family USED to be defined by drawing mom, dad and the kid. Panel 2. Now daddy is missing because Big Government has replaced him as the major provider. 1
- Panel 1. Voters didn't like what the big government Republican Congress was doing... Panel 2... so they threw the rascals out. Panel 3. Now we get lots more big government Democrats organizing endless investigations. Lawyers rule Washington, D.C. 1
- Panel 1. When Attorney General Ashcroft allows profiling and fingerprinting suspected terrorists, liberals say he is using Orwellian tactics. Panel 2. When we experience terrorist attacks, liberals wonder why he is not keeping track of these people. 1
- Panel 1. When a preacher is at work, he prays for his people and blesses them in some way. Panel 2. When President Obama is at work he tells his people (progressives) that he will have more flexibllity to give them bigger government after the election 1
- Panel 1. When families eat at a restaurant and they get bad food, they can complain and maybe even get a free meal. Panel 2. When families send their children to public school and get bad education, public school teachers demand more money. 1
- Panel 1. When love gives people help willingly. Panel 2. When Government "gives" it takes money by force and doles it out to as an expectant entitlement. 1
- Panels 1-2. A graphic reminder of the difference between the democratic party and the republican party. On the important issues of the day, democrats fall in line, and face the same direction. The elephant party doesn't understand the concept. 1
- Paper towels, false front, The best big gov't. can do is supply paper towels? 1
- Patient get bill of rights blood. Asks Kennedy, Where do you guys keep finding these rights? Hidden in other room is Donkey taking blood from woman in insurance premiums. 1
- Patient is being set up with feeding tube containing a taxpayer in bag, asks how much will this cost? Doctor says his insurance will take care of it. That would be us. 1
- Penrose hospital and Memorial are fighting over cancer patient. Memorial hospital asks City council for tax $ help. 1
- Pentagon Precision... Panel 1. In the field, the Pentagon seems to be able to get all kinds of war equipment to the battle front. Panel 2. ...but in the office of finance, they seem to lose $100 million dollars on plane tickets. 1
- People arrive at airport in cab. Deregulation has made air fare affordable. Cab fare, however, isn't... Government regulated taxi. (Original sent to John Kramer. Institute for Justice) 1
- People making burial arrangements at a mortician's office are asked if the deceased wants his hands resting across his chest or hanging on to his wallet. The Congress is talking about a hike in the inheritance tax. 1
- People prepare for disaster sitting in a life raft with food supply. There's a state sign saying, "We warned you, prepare to suffer." (if the tax limitation measure passes). Coloradans are having fun at the beach. How much suffering can we stand? 1
- Pharaoh Clinton in palace with soldier slaves. Secretary of State Albright asks Rumsfeld and Powell why we can't use the superb military they've been given. (military spelled wrong.) 1
- Policeman approaches ugly woman in patio. 1
- Politicians keep building more programs on the Capitol building which balances on the backs of the mom and dad family. Politicians just don't get it. 1
- Politicians see voters as sheep to be sheared. Voter sheep should get a tax limitation and term limitation file and sharpen their teeth. Lambs could fight back. 1
- Polls are running high for republicans and low for Democrats. In a fencing analogy, the Democrat's swords are short. Their tax-the-rich and class envy messages are getting tiresome. Republicans are touting tax cuts, jobs and free market ideas. 1
- Poor, old Uncle Sam has gotten himself addicted to taxpayer money. It's sad. He USED say, I WANT YOU. 1
- President Bill Clinton and his EPA Secretary, Carol Browner keep moving the stick down on clean air standards forcing auto makers to make smaller (and more dangerous to drive) cars for the general public to buy. 1
- President Bill Clinton and his Vice President Al Gore are like WW II bomber pilots going after the legal suppliers in the tobacco industry, gun manufactures, producers of fatty foods, etc. 1
- President Bill Clinton and his big government buddies just want the courts to rough up the big tobacco goose that lays the golden eggs. The don't want to see this goose killed. 1
- President Bill Clinton and the Democrat party want to expend free prescription coverage, in the Medicare program, to the elderly. Grandma may get free medicine, but her grandson will certainly have to pay for it. It's a reElections; plan. 1
- President Bill Clinton entices voters to join his campaign. He wants them to walk the medicare tight rope with absolute safety. Unfortunately, the expansion of the medicare safety net will depend on our children's ability to fund the expensive program. 1
- President Bill Clinton has said he is concerned that the big oil companies are gouging the public. Clinton is riding in a taxpayer-driven vehicle called big government. The taxpayers are attached to the vehicle with large screws. (Talk about "gouging".) 1
- President Bill Clinton is like Moses, leading his people to the Promised Land...Socialized Medicine. Along the way, his people see many people from Alberta, Canada moving toward America's Free Market Health Care system. 1
- President Bill Clinton tells the media he can't understand why folks are reluctant to accept a few national standards on education. Maybe, if he looked out his window, he can see how a few standards can grow into monsters. 1
- President Bill Clinton would like his Energy Secretary, Hazel O'Leary, to cut back on her very expensive travel expenses. Americans look out the window and notice her bags are peanuts compared to the excesses spent in the Department of Energy. 1
- President Bill Clinton would like to get the federal government into the public education business...the usual domain of state control. Once the camel gets his nose under the tent, the tent usually gets destroyed. 1
- President Bill Clinton's police force is watching Gun dealers like a hawk while Chinese workers are stealing Top Secret, missile technology from the U.S. police car. 1
- President Bill Clinton, Senate Majority Leader, Trent Lott and House Speaker, Newt Gingrich are all afraid to go down into the scary Consumer Price Index cellar to fix the boiler. It may take awhile. 1
- President Bill Clinton, US Fish and Wildlife, Enviromentals and EPA are in a SUV looking for endangered species. The don't see the road kill under the vehicle...Property Rights. 1
- President Bill Clinton, up to this point, has been pretty good at balancing the budget with the Republican Congress. Now, with his new spending proposals, he might throw Uncle Sam off balance. 1
- President Bush giving speech and starts turning in Al Gore talking about climate change during State of the Union address on January 31, 2006. 1
- President Bush surveys the damage to his house. Well, BOTH houses. House in Kennebunkport is flooded by water. White House is flooded by red ink. [Budget written by Richard G. Darman, head of OMB] 1
- President Clinton and HHS Secretary Donna Shalala are on a big government golf driving range getting ready to hit a Colorado unfunded golf ball with an American's with Disabilities Act golf club. 1
- President Clinton and House Speaker Newt Gingrich are playing poker at the budget talks table. Bill is betting on more government (eggs) while Gingrich is betting on taxpayers (The golden goose) 1
- President Clinton is busy placing new regulation hurdles on the track...in the US Business lane. The lanes of the foreign competition remain untouched. Good luck. 1
- President Clinton is cutting the roots (labeled, "Employers") of a very big fruit tree for firewood. The fruit and leaves ( Labeled, "Employees") on the tree say, "Don't worry, it won't affect us." Right. 1
- President Clinton is the high priest about to offer a sacrifice. The middle class on the alter, about to be cut open by the IRS, are having trouble seeing this as a "Contribution." 1
- President Clinton is writing a letter to Virginia saying there IS a Santa Clause. Outside his window is the capitol building with a Santa hat on top of it. 1
- President George H. W. Bush is missing from duty at the White House. Parked in the domestic tool shed is landscaping State Department, capital gains tax cut, payroll, and line item veto. His interest is in the State Department landscaping jobs. 1
- President George H. W. Bush makes a campaign stop at an airport to talk about his opponent's big government plane. Bush's plane, labeled "Bush's Tax and Spend Record" looks bigger than a ocean liner. 1
- President George H.W. Bush and House speaker Tom Foley play Bipartisan budget melody on their violin while the U.S. burns in a government-created recession. Big-spender republican Senator Bob Dole thinks the tune is awesome. 1
- President George H.W. Bush carried out on the shoulders of the democratic Congress who are very happy about his tax increase. Bush has been using his bully pulpit...on the Republican Congress. 1
- President George H.W. Bush, our kinder-gentler leader, losses his horse when he does business with horse traders like Congress. 1
- President George HW Bush is a pretty good horseshoe player. He keeps hitting ringers off the head of his conservative partner. Elephant has bumps labeled NEA, ADA, China, taxes, civil rights, Baltic States, etc. 1
- President George HW Bush wimped out again on Federal Day Care. The Washington beltway broad has him by the ear, dragging him in to take care of our kids. "Yes, dear." 1
- President George W. Bush is like George Washington, crossing the Delaware to lead Americans to freedom. The Democrats are a little worried. 1
- President George W. Bush's war in Iraq has created a big, gorilla deficit and all that pork, in Congress, has added some stress on both Republican and Democrat Congress. The gorilla and the pork has caught them between Iraq and a soft place. 1
- President Jimmy Carter and his balanced budget guide (wild game hunters) think they are bringing in a deer or an elk. What they have shot is a domestic cow, called "higher taxes". It's not going to help the economy. 1
- President Jimmy Carter blames his cabinet members for his own deeds. It's like a teacher is blaming her children for stealing her hat when actually she has been wearing it all the time. 1
- President Jimmy Carter has found a clue in the case of the Inflated dollar 1
- President Jimmy Carter has smoking smog plan. In order to find favor with auto workers and the preferred Detroit voters he lights up a cigar for big business that pollutes the air in the Mountain States. 1
- President Jimmy Carter is told by someone, who has found the answer to the inflation problem, to stop printing so much money. 1
- President Jimmy Carter is tossing taxpayer coal in boiler of speeding inflation train and telling U.S. business to stop the train by lowering prices. 1
- President Jimmy Carter is trying to cut through all the red tape to rescue lost Civil Service workers. Competent workers rejoice while incompetent workers are disappointed. 1
- President Jimmy Carter promises black lady with child he won't balance his budget on the backs of the poor. He's riding on the back of another little taxpayer. 1
- President Jimmy Carter wants it both ways...and balanced budget and increased spending. Giddy-ap! 1
- President Jimmy Carter wants to build a new structure on sand called, The New Foundation. Meanwhile, voters see the ruins of the New Deal, New Frontier and Great Society rotting in the sand. 1
- President Jimmy Carter's balanced budget idea (for political reelection purposes) could wind up hurting him. It's a dangerous thing to take the federal government security blanket from a spoiled, fat electorate. 1
- President Jimmy Carter's campaign train is moving across the country. He is standing on back of train tossing money to voters. The media thinks it might be a campaign trip, but he calls it a business trip so the taxpayer's will cover the cost. 1
- President Obama and his Congressional elves are loading Santa's sleigh with lots of pork (called the Omnibus bill). It might be a tad overweight to get it off the ground. 1
- President Obama and his energy team are treating Uncle Sam's sick economy with big government spending leeches and more regulations. Obama wants Sam to get that energy starved "Gaunt European look." 1
- President Obama is credited for saving General Motors and helping clean the air by pushing electric cars. How did he do that? He has discovered a new power source...he's tapping into taxpayer money with his little government subsidy machines. 1
- President Obama is trying to drive his mule (donkey) train over a flimsy bridge stretched over a $1 Trillion deficit gap. His big agenda wagon is causing some on his team to get a little fidgety. 1
- President Obama returns from the G-20 meetings where very little was accomplished. It turns out the blind were leading the blind. European leaders, American and Asian leaders could figure out how to get out of the big government Welfare State Forest. 1
- President Obama said, "American are tired of the failed policies of the past." (like Reaganonmics). Perhaps he is forgetting about HIS failed polices of the present. (Original given to Rob Rogers, a cartoonist in Pittsburg who got me a new AAEC hat.) 1
- President Obama signs another executive order. I thought our forefathers gave us a Constitutional Republic, not an emperor. 1
- President Obama talked a bit about the Solyndra solar disaster (in his state of the union message...I think) saying, Investors need to realize that sometimes businesses fail. I don't remember investing my money in that solar business. 1
- President Obama vows to veto a bill that would allow him to do less harm on cuts. Panel 1. The Hippocratic Oath is, First, do no harm. Panel 2. Dr. Obama's Hypocritical Oath is, "If harm comes, do not leave fingerprints." Uncle Sam looks worried. 1
- President Obama wants to help college students out with their loans. University president is very thankful. He can raise the university's tuition again. Education people must wonder when taxpayers are going to figure this plot out. 1
- President Obama, as Santa Claus, has his sled loaded down with welfare state goodies but his reindeer team (small business) seem reluctant to fly off the fiscal cliff. If they leap off the cliff everyone will eventually land in bankrupt Greece. 1
- President Obama, using the credit card Congress has given him, is now not even going to debate how much big government programs HE has racked up. Nice. 1
- President Reagan has to swallow the whole tax increase pig. Waiter Tip O'Neil says "Congratulations. I realize you had to swallow hard, but you did it like a true politician, Mr. President." 1
- President Reagan says, "A vote for Ronal Reagan is a vote for less government intrusion." Right. Hot Air lungs revealed. 1
- President Reagan wants Congress to use the stick approach rather than the carrot approach to make the legal drinking age change to 21 years old. Federal Government motivates skinny state government horse. 1
- President Ronald Reagan is cooking up more aid the Contras fighting communism in Nicaragua. hands food to Tip O'Neil who eats the food and passes empty plate to Contra fighters. 1
- President Ronald Reagan is floating in a life raft with a farmer singing For ample waves of grain. Big Government is subsiding farmers while the Supply and Demand Ship is sinking in lots of grain. 1
- President Ronald Reagan is helping the economic recovery lady get to her feet. Coming around the corner is congress running with Jobs bills, social spending bill...Get ready for another crash. 1
- President Ronald Reagan really IS the Lone Ranger. Even his loyal sidekick, Tonto, wants to cut the budget lady the president wants to save. 1
- President Ronald Reagan's Vice President, George H.W. Bush, has the unpleasant task of cleaning up the messes Reagan and the Republican Party make. This cartoon was probably rejected because the messes referred to Elephant dung. 1
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