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[lather2002.livejournal.com]

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[city-of-dis.livejournal.com]

Because we're all children?

[jessica-leah.livejournal.com]

And kids should get their own damn health insurance!

[i.livejournal.com]

it's funny because kids can go out and get their own health insurance with the money they make babysitting and mowing lawns.

[muffledlaugh.livejournal.com]

it's funny because poor parents would rather buy their kids expensive toys, video games, and candy instead of getting them health insurance.

[prock.livejournal.com]

This looks fun:

It's funny because the strict parent's childs earn his food, shelter, education, and insurance by working in a coal mine.

[telemann.livejournal.com]

I don't know you well enough to judge if you were being cheeky or serious, but I've heard this line before, so let me ask: I'd love to know what parents are buying their kids expensive toys and video games and candy to the tune of the insurance prices listed on this hand-out we were just given out at work today (the prices on the right are COBRA rates for those that were laid off this week):

[xforge.livejournal.com]

blah blah bootstraps blah blah self-respect blah blah CHILDREN DIE EVERY DAY OF PREVENTABLE DISEASES. Fuck you and your bullshit.

[squidb0i.livejournal.com]

+1000

[faylnncortez.livejournal.com]

high-five

[adrunkencadence.livejournal.com]

Yes.

[squidb0i.livejournal.com]

We have mylaptopisevil and Familly Guy to thank.

[kadaria.livejournal.com]

Actually, my parents and I have been looking at my health insurance options and it turns out that I still can't afford ANY of them. Or that the ones I can afford won't cover my medications and vaccines for work. Ironically the medication in question is birth control and while they deny it they also count pregnancy as "illness" and can refuse to cover me based on that too.

Holy shit, it's almost as if the current system wasn't working for well adjusted people with jobs and everything...

[spamwarrior.livejournal.com]

You could probably afford to if you stopped paying for luxuries like candy, toys, and video games, OBV. That's what's causing all of the problems.

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

Is posting Onion comics (http://www.theonion.com/content/most_recent/onion_cartoon) seriously some kind of Poe's law infraction?

[xforge.livejournal.com]

Whu-WOW!! He's reached an all-new level of "fucking stupid!!" He's gone beyond "really amazingly fucking stupid" and blown straight past "diabolically fucking stupid" and he's WELL into "just insanely UBER fucking stupid!" What an achievement!!

[xforge.livejournal.com]

Irony from the Onion or no, greedy arrogant conservative elitist asswipes have been saying this to "the poor" for uh, well, about 500 years actually, and wha'dya know, things are SO MUCH better now and no one goes without anything and everyone has SO MUCH MORE respect for themselves.

Except y'know, fucking NOT.

[http://users.livejournal.com/gaburieru_/]

that guy's cartoons are always so stupid. the onion needs to give him the axe.

[ladypolitik.livejournal.com]

Actually, I think it's strictly the Onion's parody character of a right-wing blowhard editorials, made out to be deliberately obnoxious and obsessed with right-wing cliches. Think The Colbert Report, in print form.


The fact that the wingnut OP took the 'comic' seriously and posted it here is pretty hilarious.

[blueduck37.livejournal.com]

Pssst.... newsflash... The Onion is satire. This cartoon isn't saying what you think it is. You're welcome.

[star-white.livejournal.com]

Am I wrong to feel offended?

[zombiesmustdie.livejournal.com]

if you're offended then you probably don't get the joke.

[odinokivolk.livejournal.com]

Where's the crying Statue of Liberty?

[jamie-miller.livejournal.com]

This is funny in about three different ways, none of which were intended by the original poster.

[donolectic.livejournal.com]

That second comic hurts me more because I know it's real.

[donolectic.livejournal.com]

This comic is funny because there are simple words on all the things in the comic and math is hard.

[nacreousflaneur.livejournal.com]

The so-called satirical quality of this Onion comic has always stricken me as slightly surreal. I know quite a few people who actually would agree with the "cartoonist's" sentiments. As, apparently, lather2002 has.

I suppose the converse would be like if I drew a comic about a democrat saying "I know, let's raise taxes on the rich in order to provide more social services!" and expecting people to "get" the joke.

[anfalicious.livejournal.com]

Actually, Vygotskian theory would suggest that if you put the child outside his zone of proximal development (which a child paying for their own health insurance surely is) the child would most likely flounder, become discouraged, and drop out all together, not become well adjusted.

But I think you missed the joke.