Tiger Woods had some training after his misbehavior, and how about Lindsay Lohan she's getting some "training." Then there is this guy in Florida who got on the school bus and chewed out the boys who were bullying his disabled 10 year old daughter. Maybe "anger management" would help Charlie? The fact is that if you don't pay your income taxes, the "training" for most of us is prison. I haven't heard any discussion of that possibility here. It just goes to show you, we don't do that to a Congressman. Congress is SPECIAL.
Apparently, he didn't pay his income taxes on the income from his rental home in the Dominican Republic for 17 YEARS! Forget trying to influence corporate donors for his Rangel Center at the City College of New York. Is that what they do in Congress? Yes, they are exceptional.
They have their own health care system, and pensions, and parking places and transportation and just about everything. I always have a problem when one group requires another group to do something, and they don't have to do it themselves. Would they pass different laws if they had to get the same treatment as the people? Let's see what happens with ObamaCare.
Either way this episode seems to be another example of how intolerably arrogant our elected representatives have become. If we really knew all that goes on up there it would probably make all of us vomit. The best news is that their shenanigans are usually are exposed gradually. It only gives us heart burn.
The last election was a good beginning at sending an epistle to them. I hope all the people will wake up , and throw out the Congressmen and Senators who do not listen to us because their thrones are too lofty for them to hear us. "You work for us, and not for yourselves!"
This last election I did more politicking at the grass roots than I ever have: walking the precincts, giving money, and calling voters on the phone. I did it because of one sentence spoken by the soon to be previous speaker of the house, Nancy Pelosi, "Let's pass it first, then we will see what's in it!" There was no greater demonstration of arrogance-forget the multi-million dollar flights home- than I can conceive of. It made me sick.
Well Said and too true. Hopefully some of the newly elected with refuse to be contaminated by the old guard.
ReplyDeleteIt's imperative that the voters hold the elected to their promises.
A good example of the two faced behavior is the recent reversal of position on eliminating earmarks by the Republicans. If you want to be re-elected you need to get something for your district that would be turned down were it not attached to a bill that must pass. So, the Republicans now argue that earmarks are good. BS.
I'm disgusted.....again.
Earmarks are a drop in the bucket next to entitlements. The position of Rangel makes sense given the Democratic agenda of promoting a political hierarchy rather than a hierarchy based on hard work. If you are with the in-crowd, no problem, cheat on your taxes for 17 years. If you happen to be on the outside, too bad. We'll see how this works for Obamacare. Amen.
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