Outrageous: Graduation Debt Cartoons - 22 May 2010

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From Denny: All across America this month thousands of college kids are graduating into a weaker than rain water job market. The joke is when the dean hands the graduate his new diploma it's shaped like a stick of dynamite and with a lit fuse. The dean shakes the hand of the new graduate and says, "Congratulations! By the way, you now owe $120,000. Good luck on figuring out how to pay your bills. Have a nice life."

This is the first generation to be saddled with so much outrageous debt when they graduate. It's like paying a house note and you are homeless. They can thank President Bush and how he dumped all the student loan programs. What that did is throw all the college expenses back into the laps of middle class parents. And people voted Republican... why???

Bush threw all kinds of expenses onto the backs of the middle class and back to the local levels. He took away so much shared financing from a centralized government that people are taxed up to their eyeballs on the local and state levels. But hey, the Republicans are all for lower taxes. Who in the world is actually dumb enough to believe that crazy mantra anymore after the economy has demonstrated otherwise?

Everyone in America should have a reasonable expectation of receiving a college degree at a reasonable cost. The only way for America to pull out of the math and science cellar is to get serious about the importance of education. It's time we start finding ways to pay for the middle class to go to school - without incurring so much debt before they even get started on their careers.

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America This Week: World Politics Cartoons and Commentary - 22 May 2010


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American Culture of Oprah, The Mob, Sex Talks, Morality, Free Speech and Diet: Political Cartoons 1 May 2010

From Denny: Nothing like a crazy slew of snapshot conversations in America, well, these cartoonists seem to capture the heart of it! The drumbeat in America has been to wake up people to the suffering of other Americans right in their midst - something they can actually do about it with little effort. There is a reference to the SEC fools who spent all their days at work looking at porno sites instead of doing their jobs to oversee the financial sector. Talk about a warm body in the chair but nobody home enforcing the law.

There's a new unauthorized biography out from notable gossip columnist Kitty Kelley about Oprah. I bet Oprah is just thrilled. The Big However is that her anger is really not justified considering she makes her living off asking intimate personal questions in her interviews. She pokes and prods people to get out juicy gossip details that she craves to know. So, the fact that Lady Karma has paid a visit to her door is turn about fair play from the look of it. Oprah has made billions of dollars enabling a lot of drama queens and kings to get their 15 minutes of fame. It was only a matter of time before someone wrote about her intimate life.

With all the obesity studies out on children there is a rallying cry across America to create healthier diets for us all. There was even a recent military study that said many of the applicants were too fat and out of shape to qualify for military service. Bet there are a lot of kids out there shoving yet another Twinkie into their mouths just to avoid military service.

And, of course, there is the ever present complaining about a lack of free speech in this country. That's total nonsense. If that were true there would be no conservative radio talk shows allowed and yet they proliferate on the air waves to the tune of 91% of the talk show circuit is made up of their lying blather.

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College Grads Chances of Finding Jobs: Political Cartoons

From Denny: This year's college grads trying to get a real paying job in this economy. Move over Baby Boomers and make room for the next generation. Like that's going to happen when everyone needs a decent paying job in this economy! :)

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Now here's a clever guy, networking before he even exits the graduation stage!

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Whats Happening in America This Week - Political Cartoons 24 Apr 2010


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