February 14, 2012 - 7:20 am
Pearls Before Swine is a wonderfully sarcastic, punny strip. It’s also more than a little hard to nail down. Stephen Pastis occasionally seems to be more than a little conservative, but one never quite knows. Certainly, as below, he loves to skewer stupidity and hypocrisy. As the Occutwits make noise (which is all they’re really good for) at CPAC and other events let us remember that they are railing against capitalism while sucking down double mocha venti hazelnut lattes and tweeting on their iPads.
h/t Seattle Pi
OWS spins off into hypocrisy long before the first latte gets sipped.
It’s their very soul. Their big issue is “Greed”. They present only one solution to “Greed”, and it’s “TAKE THEIR MONEY!”- and they don’t get the irony of that. Philosophically compromised from the start, there’s nowhere to go but down.
I call it “cognitive dissonance.”
Reminds me of 1984′s doublethink. “War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, and Ignorance is Strength.”
To be fair, that could also be a comment on those anti-Obamacare protesters with the “keep your laws off my Medicare” signs.
Yeah. *sigh* As a Medicare receipent, I’m not sure what ObamaCare will do to my benefits, but I have to laugh at those that tell the government to keep their hands off it… but you have to understand, those that are posting those kind of comments are most likely in plans with private insurance companies Medicare plans and they don’t realize that the companies have to follow certain guidelines.
I recenly left one of those plans because they, in their infinite wisdom, decided to raise my copay for a medical procedure by 300%… by charging me for the medication that goes into the implanted medical device I have. I am now in traditional medicare, only because the plan I chose to replace the original plan I was in, my PCP (Primary Care Physician) didn’t accept, even though his office said he did). It’ll probably cost me more on traditional Medicare than it would have been to stay in the insurance plan, but I don’t know. I was paying $350 a month in premiums, PLUS $30 copays, excluding the $150 copay for the refill of my intrathecal drug pump (monthly) and now, I’m paying $85 in premiums. I still haven’t gotten a bill for a drug pump refill under Medicare or how many I have to pay for before I hit the cap (where Medicare pays 100%), but I’m sure to reach it. Gotta love managed care.
Gotta say, it’s damned expensive to be disabled. *sigh* And I’m a baby boomer. I skew all the stats though. Motorized wheelchair ($28,000 every 5 years) (although, I tend to hold onto them, and replace them when they fall apart about every 12 years),(drug pump, $8,000 every month plus pump replacement every 6 years), about $500 in prescription drugs a month (Medicare pays most of that, I have a $7 copay per prescription). CPAP supplies every 3 months (about $80). Lymphedema garmants which will run $200 every 6 months. Yeah, expensive to be disabled.
and before anyone screams too loudly that they are paying for me way of living, I DO pay taxes. Sales tax, and income tax.