Posted on 10/31/2010 11:28:59 AM PDT by GailA
Steve Cohen, who greeted voters at a Democratic event several blocks away in Midtown, said that he had in fact been a part of historic bills to give people tax breaks, not tax hikes.
"We voted on the largest tax breaks in United States history in the 111th Congress. In fact, the stimulus bill was 40 percent tax breaks. There have been more tax breaks for 95 percent of the citizens of the middle class," Cohen said.
Cohen is not knocking on doors this weekend, but is still passing out his signature buttons that he said he likes to collect.
He said that it is in fact a difficult year for some of his Democratic colleagues, but that he is not nervous himself. He remains unfazed by some demands to remove people who seem to be Washington insiders.
"We know how Washington works; we're effective at making it work. That's been my life. Some people say we don't need anymore career politicians, but Thomas Jefferson was a career politician and so was George Washington," Cohen said.
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I totally agree that Jefferson did not use politics to become wealthy like today’s pols. Same thing with Hamilton. In fact, these people became poor because of politics. Whether we side with Jefferson or Hamilton in their many arguments, we can all agree (at least us Freepers can) that they and the other Founders saw politics as a public service, not a means to gain power and wealth for themselves.
Yes indeed.
Exactly
Both of them worked for a future for their countrymen. Personal gain appears to have been on the back burner for them. They made real sacrifices and took very real risks for the cause of freedom from English rule.
The majority of the crop of politicians we have today are but a pale shadow at best.
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;’) thanks BL.
Another major difference is that today we have people that enter politics with good intentions but get corrupted by the system. Our Founders were not corrupted. When Jefferson became President, he launched an investigation into Hamilton and his bank and couldn’t find anything he did wrong, though he disagreed with the whole idea of the bank. Today, there is corruption under every stone, even by those we think of as incorruptible.
If he just shut up, we would think he was just another liberal, but now we know he is an ignorant dumbass liberal (yeah, it's redundant).
I still wonder how Mr. Jefferson would react to what the Democrats have done with his party. Particularly their stand on Gun Control(tm).
Agree, and STRONGLY AGREE!!!! Although I think a nation only gets men or women) like those once in its lifetime. Unfortunately for US. We're doomed, I tell ya. Only thing left to do is keep fighting while they drag us to the gallows.
I can tell you to a man the Founders would have been in REVOLT much quicker than we have been.
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“I can tell you to a man the Founders would have been in REVOLT much quicker than we have been.”
Probably, but they’d already been through it all once.
Vote. Check.
Campaign on ice. Soon.
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