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Rangel Claims United States is 'Not Broke'
National Legal & Policy Center ^
| March 10, 2011
| Peter Flaherty
Posted on 03/10/2011 7:34:01 PM PST by jazusamo
Pete Kasperowicz of The Hill reported yesterday:
Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY) on Wednesday said the federal government is not broke, and that Congress should not begin cutting programs in the way that Republicans have proposed.
"Make no mistake about it, we're not broke," Rangel said in a floor discussion with Rep. John Garamendi (D-Calif.) "It wasn't that we overcompensated public employees. They didn't cause this deficit."
Of course, if you really believe that the country is not broke in the face of a $14 Trillion national debt, and a deficit of $1.3 Trillion this year alone, you probably don't believe that you have to pay taxes, either. Maybe that explains why Rangel was so indignant when we forced him to admit that he failed to disclose or report rental income from his Dominican Republic beach house.
The financial crisis of 2008 shook the confidence of middle-class taxpayers in their long-term financial security. As a result, spending and debt were the dominant issues in last year's election. That is why Republicans gained 63 seats in the House.
To be fair, Democrats pulled the rug on Rangel's Ways and Means chairmanship, and even President Obama tried to get him to retire "with dignity." Rangel wouldn't take the hint (or the shove), and he recently announced that he is running again in 2012. To advocates of smaller government, Rangel is the gift that keeps on giving.
TOPICS: Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: cultureofcorruption; ethics; nlpc; rangel
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Come on Charlie, you better quit now while your still on the outside.
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posted on
03/10/2011 7:34:07 PM PST
by
jazusamo
To: jazusamo
But Michael Moore said it first!
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posted on
03/10/2011 7:37:58 PM PST
by
Freddd
To: jazusamo
We know Rangel isn’t broke, that’s for sure.
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posted on
03/10/2011 7:38:20 PM PST
by
Flag_This
(Real presidents don't bow.)
To: jazusamo
And we should believe you why? Especially a democRAT. Hahahahahaha
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posted on
03/10/2011 7:38:59 PM PST
by
TribalPrincess2U
(They don't need to do another 911. They have BHO and the Fleebaggers.)
To: jazusamo
There’s no fool like a tax cheatin’ old fool.
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posted on
03/10/2011 7:39:28 PM PST
by
tioga
To: jazusamo
Like this tax cheat knows?
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posted on
03/10/2011 7:43:20 PM PST
by
ReverendJames
(Only A Painter Or A Liberal Can Change Black To White.)
To: jazusamo
Sorry Chollie....we no mo gots da ways or da means cuz you and yo Dems dey stole ‘em — all da beans!
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posted on
03/10/2011 7:48:09 PM PST
by
tflabo
To: jazusamo
Technically speaking, the Dems, Michael Moore and their ilk are correct. The United States is not so broke that it cannot turn it around. But it won’t be too long before it is.
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posted on
03/10/2011 7:50:16 PM PST
by
Jonty30
To: jazusamo
another millionaire tax cheat lecturing us about greed......
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posted on
03/10/2011 7:52:19 PM PST
by
Tzimisce
(Never forget that the American Revolution began when the British tried to disarm the colonists.)
To: jazusamo
Then we can lower taxes.
Rangle says “Bush’s policy did not bankrupt the nation.”
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posted on
03/10/2011 7:52:35 PM PST
by
NoLibZone
(Impeach Obama, then try him for treason. / Homosexuals reject diversity.)
To: jazusamo
Who was the female lib the other day who said that we can’t be broke as long as we can borrow money?
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posted on
03/10/2011 7:53:50 PM PST
by
YellowRoseofTx
(Evil is not the opposite of God; it's the absence of God)
To: potlatch
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Domincan Rangel and the Kingdom of the Peon’s Pesos
.
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posted on
03/10/2011 7:55:22 PM PST
by
devolve
(. . . . . . . . . . . . "- we*ll bring a gun!" . . . . alias Jimmy Qaeda 2 . . .)
To: jazusamo
14 TRILLION dollars? Sorry Charlie. We're broke!
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posted on
03/10/2011 7:56:59 PM PST
by
FlingWingFlyer
(Just say NO to union greed!)
To: jazusamo
It’s the unfunded liabilities that are the killer. None of them, on either side of the aisle, want to talk about that, because they know it will never be paid. Not even close.
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posted on
03/10/2011 7:58:17 PM PST
by
FlyVet
To: YellowRoseofTx
I didn’t hear about that but it sounds like it could be Maxine Waters or one of my Sens. Patty Murray. LOL!
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posted on
03/10/2011 7:58:32 PM PST
by
jazusamo
(His [Obama's] political base---the young, the left and the thoughtless: Thomas Sowell)
To: jazusamo
He knows more people who want to bribe him I guess.
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posted on
03/10/2011 8:00:08 PM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(The biggest waste of brainpower is to want to change something that's not changeable. -Albert Brooks)
To: jazusamo
The Man is broke Charlie. Thanks to cretins like you and the minions you enslave.
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posted on
03/10/2011 8:13:46 PM PST
by
samadams2000
(Someone important make......The Call!)
To: devolve
Poetic!
And I didn't put my name on it!
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posted on
03/10/2011 8:19:40 PM PST
by
potlatch
( ~*coincidences usually aren't *~)
To: jazusamo
Rangel Claims United States is 'Not Broke' Charlie must have rescued the country by paying all his delinquent taxes!
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posted on
03/10/2011 8:22:01 PM PST
by
lonestar
(It takes a village of idiots to elect a village idiot.)
To: jazusamo
To a DemocRat, you aren't broke until they've taken every last dime from you.
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