Pace, Adam Smith, because this blog's 'toonist-in-residence — Tom Tomorrow — brings the Invisible Hand (of the Market) into most of his discussions of fiscal policy. Tomorrow mocks the market-worshipping Dumbos/Morons today with "Dr." Invisible Hand explaining the market-based rejection of the Affordable Health Care Act of 2013 to a pair of incredulous non-believers. Dr. Hand's stock response to dissenters is "Zip it!" If only this blog could say that to every Dumbo/Moron in the land: "Zip it, you ignorant loons!" The reason the Dumbos/Morons haven't offered a plausible alternative to the Affordable Health Care Act of 2013 is that they want the status quo for the uninsured: "Go to an emergency room (for a head cold or whatever), give a fake name, and never receive a bill." The catch is that taxpayers end up paying that uncollected bill. If this is (fair & balanced) lunacy, so be it.
[x This Modern World]
Dr. Hand
By Tom Tomorrow (Dan Perkins)
[Dan Perkins is an editorial cartoonist better known by the pen name "Tom Tomorrow". His weekly comic strip, "This Modern World," which comments on current events from a strong liberal perspective, appears regularly in approximately 150 papers across the U.S., as well as on Daily Kos. The strip debuted in 1990 in SF Weekly. Perkins, a long time resident of Brooklyn, New York, currently lives in Connecticut. He received the Robert F. Kennedy Award for Excellence in Journalism in both 1998 and 2002. When he is not working on projects related to his comic strip, Perkins writes a daily political weblog, also entitled "This Modern World," which he began in December 2001. Earlier this year, Dan Perkins, pen name Tom Tomorrow, was named the winner of the 2013 Herblock Prize for editorial cartooning.]
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