Showing posts with label your money or your life. Show all posts
Showing posts with label your money or your life. Show all posts

Tuesday, 30 November 2021

From The Mind of Merc - Priorities

 Sometimes I find my mind wandering over various eclectic topics and occasionally I am inspired to write some of them down. Today given the recent emergence of yet another variant of coronavirus which once again threatens our Christmases, I was thinking about the UK government's prioritising of their bank balances over everyone else's has undeniably contributed the longevity of the pandemic.

When our leaders are more focused on the money they can make from the situation than actually dealing with the situation itself in any sort of effective way in order to protect the lives of the people it is meant to represent - as demonstrated not only by the numerous highly questionable 'donor deals' that have taken place since the outbreak but also by the disinclination of our illustrious leader to bother to turn up to COBRA meetings for the first few months of the crisis - it should come as no surprise that our ability to overcome or at least subdue the rampant nature of the virus is considerably and interminably delayed.

To demonstrate this in cartoon form, here's one I made earlier. (And I effectively only had to change 1 letter.)



Sunday, 1 December 2019

From The Mind of Merc - Gun Control

Sometimes I find my mind wandering over various eclectic topics and occasionally I am inspired to write some of them down. Today I was thinking about just how ridiculous the situation in America is regarding gun control.

As of 31st October 2019, 370 mass shootings had occurred in America in 2019. In these shootings, 1,466 people were injured and 441 died, for a total of 1,907 victims.

When there was a mass shooting in Australia in 1996 in Port Arthur, guns were banned - the no. of mass shootings in Australia in 2019? 3
When there was a mass shooting in the UK in 1996 in Dunblane, guns were banned - the no. of mass shootings in the UK in 2019? 0.
And yet, apparently gun control isn't the answer. (The answer to curtailing the bank accounts of gun manufacturers maybe.)

You wouldn't have thought this was a difficult decision, would you?

And for those who 'stand by the 2nd amendment: https://i.4pcdn.org/pol/1522210598579.png