I am one of the Greenspan babies, that has paid my entire career the higher social security taxes.

So thank you.

I hope someone plasters this comic on his tombstone.

That'll show him.

that I already heard almost this same interview on NPR's "Fresh Air" with Teri Gross.

Finally, there is a skewering of Greenspan's myth as a brilliant and non-partisan economist. Why didn't 60 Minutes actually question him rather than faun over him?

Yes! That was exactly the same reaction I had to that interview by Terri Gross -- Sparky has captured it exactly. "It's so obvious now that this guy has been full of bullshit all along." I wanted to throw something at the radio while I was listening to it.

I hope there's a special circle of hell reserved for Mr. Kissy-face.

I guess this is all technically funny, but I'm just not amused.

... by Mr. Greenspan's shtick, I mean, and not Tom Tomorrow's rendering of it. Bull's eye, Sparky.

when his paycheck depends on him not telling the truth.

I've been wondering what the heck was going on with the Greenspan Comedy Tour... with NO ONE pointing out his speech where he practically BEGGED lower income citizens to take out adjustable rate mortgages.

And this is our current media at work- reminders of well-documented, PUBLIC truths have to come from a cartoon penguin. All hail the cartoon penguin!

A war that has been carried out by successive administrations against working people for decades and continues with greater intensity than ever today.

When are workers going to rise up and do something about it? One imagines never so long as they are busy waving the flag, fighting a new war against the workers of Mexico and Asia and slapping 'support the troops' ribbons on their bumpers.

Penguins wobble slow and can't run from the GWB's Tease Cops.

Penguins wear black and white suits. Alan wears red boots? huh.

Greewald wears blue booties? Tom Tomorrow wears pink soft sundried panties?

Salon forgives penguin lovers?

I sure hope they have Patience.

Now no tasser anyone. Sorry Mr. G. Greenwald.

I like TMW much better when it's actually funny. This week's installment barely seems to try to make a joke. I'm a big fan of this strip but this week TT tackled a topic that just doesn't seem well suited for a comic strip.

Great work again!

I've always thought the MSM worship of Greenspan was absurd, he never made any sense. It takes Tom Tommorrow to see the real purpose behind the mumbo-jumbo.

more than enough conspiracy theories for every fruitcake in existence. What makes you think you actually know anything? Oh, I forgot your brilliant mind. Everyone is a bogey man, except the ones you like.

Poco

Maybe you can answer yourself, also, and then you can be too busy to post your ignorant nonsense here.

about his ARM comments, and he insisted that he had been quoted out of context on them, saying that he felt at the time an ARM would be a good deal if you knew you could get out of the mortgage in a couple years. So it wasn't a flat endorsement (or so he claimed). If that's in fact true, the penguin is wildly overstating his case. As to his ridiculous comments about the alleged regressiveness of increasing taxes on wage earners to fund Social Security, the penguin needs to remember the basic politics of Social Security: everyone pays in and everyone gets a return (supposedly), a necessary sop lest it become tagged as a wealth redistribution scheme (which it is), vote-buying with a glossy cover letter.

I think principled objectivists are allowed to be hypocritical as long as it is motivated by self-interest.

...about his ARM comments, and he insisted that he had been quoted out of context on them, saying that he felt at the time an ARM would be a good deal if you knew you could get out of the mortgage in a couple years. So it wasn't a flat endorsement (or so he claimed). If that's in fact true, the penguin is wildly overstating his case.

he just never got around to correcting the mis-quote for some years until he was out of power and had a book to push.

That sort of after the fact "I didn't really mean what I said" thing seems to happen to him a great deal. Coincidence I am sure.

And since 1789 there's been a secret plot too. I have it all down here in the Illuminati handbook.

I think this quote of Cossacathon says it all:

"I think principled objectivists are allowed to be hypocritical as long as it is motivated by self-interest.

Greenspan, former Head of the Paper Factory. Scott Horton's interview with Charles Goyette is funnier though:

http://www.antiwar.com/blog/2007/09/21/charles-goyette-3/

Greenspan knows exactly what he is doing, he is the head priest of the Federal Reserve Cult, the heart of the beast and the main enemy of The People in the Class War. Greenspan is scum, he blames the people and the presidents instead of blaming the real culprit, Fractional Reserve Banking and fiat money.

The only candidate that is fighting the Franken Fed is Ron Paul. He would strike at the heart of the beast by taking away its ability to devalue our currency through inflation.

Every society that ever got involved in the practice of debasing its currency has gone down. *cough*Byzantine*cough*

Ever play Monopoly? It isn't stated in the rules, but in the end the bank always wins. The bank produces and controls the money, it is in charge.

but is there any hope in dismantling this mess? thanks Sparky, but this is why I can't read Z magazine, The Nation, or listen to NPR anymore. I blood pressure can't take it.

AH YES, Alan Greenspan, everybody's favourite NEW "whipping boy!" Kinda like one of Hitler's Murderous SS men saying "I was CHUST following orders..." Or Nero's Murderous henchman saying "But the BIG HEAD-CHEESE made me light all those torches..." Or Mao Tse-Tung's Vicious cadres saying "The Chairman wrote it, it has to be RIGHT! You must be RE-EDUCATED..." Or Idi Amin's Cannibal chef saying "Mmmmmmm Boy! Now THAT's WHAT I CALLS LAMB ARMISTAN...Dada said it would taste GOOD, and it's DELICIOUS!!!!!" Alan, Alan, STOP BLAMING that BRAINLESS MONKEY-BOY CHIMPya for YOUR OWN FATAL ERRORS and ARROGANT FUTILE FOOLISH IDIOCY in BRINGING AMERICA to the BRINK OF A RECESSION or A GREAT DEPRESSION with your CRIMINAL FOOLISHNESS and HUBRIS---YOU ARE TO BLAME, and POOR LITTLE CHIMPya IS A SOBBIN' HIS LITTLE BLACK LUMP OF COAL OUT, NOW AIN'T THAT A CRYIN' SHAME, Alan?