Posted on 01/02/2010 8:33:12 AM PST by bestintxas
To call Washington D. C. a Den of Thieves would be the understatement of the Millennium.
Please allow me to familiarize you good people with the slimy denizens of D.C., and some of their nest feathering practices while sticking it to us big time.
We will start with Pelosi, whose husband owns $17 million worth of stock of StarKist Tuna, which is owned by Del Monte Foods who is a big contributor to Pelosi.
Starkist is the major employer in American Samoa, employing 75% of the Samoan work force.
In January 2007 when the minimum wage was increased from $5.15 to $7.25 Ms. Pelosi had American Samoa exempted from the increase so Del Monte would not have to pay the higher wage. This would make Del Monte products less expensive than that of its competitors.
Pelosi added a $33 million dollar earmark for an economic development credit in American Samoa, and she called the Bush administration CORRUPT?
Moving right along, another California Democrat, Senator Diane Feinstein despite a blatantly obvious conflict of interest, as “a member of the Military Construction Appropriations subcommittee, Senator Feinstein voted for appropriations worth some $3.7 billion dollars to her husband’s firms.”
The House Appropriations Chairman David
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GOOD GRIEF! i HAVEN’T BEEN ABLE TO BUY HEINZ KETUCHUP FOR YEARS, AND NOW I CAN’T BUY DEL MONTE KETCHUP! BOYCOTT IS OUR ONLY WEAPON, FOLKS.
Can you imagine the media drumbeat if Sarah Palin, or Michele Bachmann, or any Conservative had just a smidgen of such scandals as these?
Can you imagine?
High crimes and corruption rules D.C. Steal from taxpayers to buy votes. Preach to the masses about cutting back but take vacations; do as I say not whay i do! Lie and have the Media promote the lies. You cannot hide your lyin’ eyes!
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[[High crimes and corruption rules D.C. Steal from taxpayers to buy votes. Preach to the masses about cutting back but take vacations; do as I say not whay i do!]]
And tell the public seniors, who have to get by on as little as $600 a month SS checks, that there was ‘no cost of living increase’ last year, therefore there will be no COL increase in their SS checks this year’ then turn around and grant congress people an average of $4500 Cost of living increase, and give them a pay increase to boot while people in the millions are being laid off.
No surprise that two of the biggest offenders are from California.
you forgot ‘sausage hiding’ in the title too
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