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Patrick Chappatte, The International Herald Tribune

Bill Day, Cagle Cartoons

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Petar Pismestrovic, Kleine Zeitung, Austria 

April is a depressing time for Americans. They have to sent in their tax-forms. But just remember, you're paying for schools, roads, bridges, hospitals, and our soldiers who keep the nation free.
Unfortunately that nation is Afghanistan.

British police arrested three more people in the ever broadening hacking scandal at the newspapers of (Fox News-owner) Rupert Murdoch.
Now the royal editor of the British tabloid The Sun and two others were detained for inappropriate payments made to police and public officials.
T  he arrests were based on information coming from inside The Sun.

Too much income inequality is bad for the economy, it's bad for the society as a whole, it's bad for poor people and it's even bad for rich people. Countries where there is a smaller gap between income - f.e. Scandinavia, the Netherlands. Japan - are better places to live for everyone. There is less crime, people live healthier, longer lives and they are happier.
The U.S. is going the other way since Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush.

According to the latest Executive Pay Watch report the gap between pay for executives and workers has expanded in 2011. CEO's made about $12 million a year, 380 times more than the average worker, up from 343 times in 2010.

Pavel Constantin, Romania

Likely Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on the Buffett Rule, the bill that wants to end the Bush-taxcuts and for American millionaires to pay as much taxes as their secretaries, that is 30 pct.

Romney: These kind of gimmicks, they couldn't get it through their own Democratic Senate. And I think the reason is, people recognize that these gimmicks are not going to get America strong again, they're not going to create jobs. They're going to have the opposite effect of creating jobs.

So millionaires spending their money worldwide does create jobs and the rest of America spending their money at home does not?
The gimmick, that would raise 4,7 billion dollars a year, didn't make it through the Senate because Republicans filibustered it.

Gary McCoy, Cagle Cartoons

Tom Janssen, The Netherland s

Despite strong prison industry lobbying, there is going to be a measure on the ballot in Colorado that asks the people to vote on the legalization of the use of marijuana. The soft drug should be regulated like alcohol, according to he bill.
The vote will be a closely watched in the U.S.A., since there's a real chance it might become law.

I’ve never seen data that the Bush-taxcuts for the rich have actually created jobs in America. But my idea is, being a millionaire myself, that it doesn't. Millionairs can't eat or buy more than they already do. Some of that money goes to trips and houses abroad anywhay, and most goes to Wall Street or other stockmarkets where rich people know they can make money with money.

Yesterday the Senate voted on the the Buffett Rule, a bill promoted by President Obama that would make millionaires pay as much taxes as middle-class Americans. It got a small majority but thanks to a Republican filibuster it didn’t get the sixty votes needed to move on for discussion in the Senate. So American millionaires still pay less than their secretaries.

Charlie Sheen is van de drank af... nu nog de hash, de coke en van die blauwe pilletjes.

This week Fox News boss Roger Ailes gave a lecture to aspiring young journalists in America. Really... no joke. The boss of Fox News - a subsidary of News Corp. which is being investigated in England for obstruction of justice and malpractice - is lecturing journalists. And he had some 'fair and balanced' advice for the young critics in the audience.

Ailes: “What you’re really telling me is that there’s a little cable channel over here that’s driving you nuts because it won’t line up with your worldview.
Remember, the last time all of us got lined up together, we were lined up by two guys – Hitler and Stalin. If there’s an alternative point of view, don’t wet your pants.”

Arcadio Esquivel, La Prensa, Panama, http://www.caglecartoons.com

Emad Hajjaj, Jordan

President Obama has a meeting today with millionaires and their secretaries in an effort to bring the position of the Republican Party on fairness to the attention of the American people. Obama wants to get rid of the Bush-taxcuts for millionaires by introducing the Buffett-rule. Conservative billionair Warren Buffett agrees with the president that it's ridiculous that he pays less taxes than his secretary.

Pavel Constantin, Romania

Glenn Beck has always insisted he is NOT crazy!. After he was fired from the Fox Network for being to extreme, he has been around somewhere. Mostly counting the money he made from letting the fraudulent company Goldline advertise on his show that the financial system was going to collapse any minute now, so buy gold.

But now Glenn Beck will prove once and for all that he is a sane person. He will show his true Beck on the obcure network GBTV where he will air speeches from an 'exact replica of the Oval Office' while pretending to be 'Ronald Reagan'. 

Hi there Beck-man, wouldn't it be a great idea to ask Sarah Palin to do speeches while pretending to be vice-president?
And maybe Rush Limbaugh can pretend to be your Secretary of State.

Ik wil op vakantie naar Griekenland, Hoe is de sfeer daar onder de bevolking in verband met de crisis. En is alles duurder geworden of juist goedkoper?

a)  De sfeer is arxidia met peren
b)  Het is niet goedkoper geworden.
c)  Engels spreken dan is er niets aan de hand.

Pavel Constantin, Romania

A waitress in Minnesota took the police to court after they refused to give her a tip of $12,000. She got the tip at the diner where she worked but gave it to the police as lost property.

The police department said the money would be given to her if it would be unclaimed for two month, Buy then they told the waitress she had to wait another month before she would get her tip. The next month the police told her she would not get the money at all because it smelled of marijuana and had been seized under state law.