Pension Warrior Gifts

Comedy / Tragedy / My 401(K)

Baby pram as a tank

"What lead you to growing human tests in a test tube?"

Freedom of the press

'We need people who dream the impossible dreams - like pensions and health care.'

Pre-Old Blues

'With one stroke of his fibre-tipped pen, Cartoonman laid waste to all that was evil...'

'If social security were privatized, the administration also suggested a name change to 'Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld holdings inc.''

"'Disability benefits' they said... Not while there are perfectly good jobs as traffic cones to be had!"

'So that's agreed, we terrify people with stories about living to a hundred in poverty and hope that makes them drop dead early.'

Privatisation of the NHS

Denmark: Begging is against the law!

'Your call is very important to us, so please continue to hold.'

Social security.

'Evan, I think your little sister may be trapped in there with you!. . . Jennifer! Are you in there, honey?'

Captain Thomas Coram.

Cartoonist Pencil

"Recovery involves elements of faith. So let's pray my billing service, this hospital and your insurance provider all work smoothly together."

"It's a darkly comic indictment of my inability to write."

New claims that GPs health damaged by government bureaucracy.

Wal Max - Complaints Department

"We seem to be the only animals here."

'... No, I'm sorry, the doctor can't see you right now. Today's his prior authorization day.'

'Watch out or they'll shove higher wages and better life down your throat!'

'I'm afraid neither your insurance nor your immune system will cover it.'

"Don't even bother asking for a raise. He'll just tell you to go to Hell."

Soldier with large pencil instead of gun.

'I don't suppose it occured to you to simply agree to disagree?'

'The transplant went okay, but your insurance company is rejecting the bill.'

'I'm taking no chances tonight.'

Rings Beneath Parent's Eyes.

"We were definitely here before them."

My doctor says my heart is fragile. I'm supposed to cut down on my activism. You mean activity? Activism. He says that getting upset about idiotic, right-wing, greedy jerks is bad for my heart. He's a quack! This ends badly.

Machine gun loaded with pencils is labelled 'Cartoon Movement'.

Social Services held back by risk, unrealistic targets and budget cuts.