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Millionaire Congresswoman: Income Inequality is ‘Existential Threat’ to U.S. (Rosa DeLauro)
Cybercast News Service ^ | January 20, 2014 - 1:14 PM | Eric Scheiner

Posted on 01/20/2014 5:08:23 PM PST by Olog-hai

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To: Olog-hai

It’s not HER wealth that is the problem. It is the wealth of the EVIL capitalists!


41 posted on 01/20/2014 5:40:31 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (The War on Drugs has been used as an excuse to steal your rights. Support an end to the WOD now.)
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To: Olog-hai

The road to larger income gap and wealth ownership in this nation started with NAFTA, WTO, WFN. Allowing corporations to go overseas, invest in training of Chinese and Indian workers to do US manufacturing jobs and now IT jobs only allow the ones on top to pocket money while the rest of the American workers are dumped onto the US taxpayers as unemployment and food stamps. The refusal of the Fed Gov to enforce immigration laws and now talk of amnesty will add to US worker woes. We could have gotten away with this when the economy kept expanding with borrow and spend (corporate and gov) but the system imploded on September 2008. To make it worst the American voters voted twice for a far leftist President who created more gov entitlements and tax burden on the surviving businesses. Now we have more part time jobs and wage suppression. While we suffer big business gets bailed out with taxpayers money. Now our economy stands at the few in charge making more, the few American born techies having unique desired attributes get selected to work in bubble hi tech campuses (like Silicon Valley) while the rest of the college grads are not hired because a foreign H-1B worker took his place. Now corporate America wants more H-1B and amnesty for illegal immigrants and keep more immigration while the US economy is still in Recession (until the US gov changed the formula in calculating GDP to include research and art). This false Matrix Illusion will come to an end and big gov/big business types will end up fleeing the country or end up hung from street lamp posts for what they did to America. Dems and GOP need to learn, big gov and big business are the enemies of America. Problem is each party only identified half of the enemy and stuck running in place as the enemy they refuse to acknowledge betrays their goals from behind. Tea Party has exposed the Chamber of Commerce (Big Business) the traitor they are. Dems haven’t figure out that Big Gov is also undermining their chance for prosperity yet.


42 posted on 01/20/2014 5:41:22 PM PST by Fee
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To: Olog-hai
She is one scary-looking broad. With an Adam's apple.


43 posted on 01/20/2014 5:42:17 PM PST by Lizavetta
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To: Olog-hai

I’m with you, congresswoman! I’ll email you my address so you’ll know where to send part of your wealth.


44 posted on 01/20/2014 5:43:48 PM PST by VerySadAmerican (".....Barrack, and the horse Mohammed rode in on.")
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To: puppypusher

I’d like to know how much their professional staffs are worth. They’re the ones who give the insider trading info to their bosses. Most of the congress folks are too damned dumb to know what a “trade” is.


45 posted on 01/20/2014 5:45:53 PM PST by VerySadAmerican (".....Barrack, and the horse Mohammed rode in on.")
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To: Olog-hai

Curious. How did she make her millions? Through marriage, or through “public service?”


46 posted on 01/20/2014 5:46:23 PM PST by Cowboy Bob (They are called "Liberals" because the word "parasite" was already taken.)
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To: Olog-hai; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Thanks Olog-hai. More meme-building by a limo-lib liar.


47 posted on 01/20/2014 5:46:51 PM PST by SunkenCiv (;http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
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To: tips up

I’ll even let her make $15/hour.


48 posted on 01/20/2014 5:47:26 PM PST by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Implementing class warfare by having no class.)
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49 posted on 01/20/2014 5:48:55 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("When you meet the unbelievers, strike at their necks..." -- Qur'an 47:4)
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To: Olog-hai

Rosa DeLauro is an existential threat to mirrors everywhere.


50 posted on 01/20/2014 5:49:27 PM PST by Disambiguator
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To: Lizavetta
she is...and I know this may come as a shock...

PAJAMA BOY'S MOTHER!!


51 posted on 01/20/2014 5:49:52 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("When you meet the unbelievers, strike at their necks..." -- Qur'an 47:4)
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To: Cowboy Bob
her husband...Pajama Boys Father ...independantly wealthy..




52 posted on 01/20/2014 5:51:52 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("When you meet the unbelievers, strike at their necks..." -- Qur'an 47:4)
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To: Olog-hai

Yet another multi-millionaire Hippie-hypocrite in congress spouting off about income equality and redistributing everyone else’s income, but not hers.


53 posted on 01/20/2014 5:56:26 PM PST by Pajamajan (Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for everything you have. Don't wait. Do it today.)
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To: Olog-hai

Fixing income inequality = Paying off debt through wealth confiscation.


54 posted on 01/20/2014 5:56:33 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
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To: Olog-hai
Productivity inequality is a clear and present danger.
55 posted on 01/20/2014 6:00:00 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Who knew that one day professional wrestling would be less fake than professional journalism?)
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To: Olog-hai

I absolutely agree; drop every congresscritter, and their staff to minimum wage immediately. Strip them of all their benefits and paid holidays, and take away vacation time.


56 posted on 01/20/2014 6:00:18 PM PST by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: SharpRightTurn
Another millionaire limousine Commie Comrade crying crocodile tears about “income inequality.”

And where, you might ask did her money (est. $20 MM) come from?

Ms. De Lauro was born of Italian immigrants -- her dad and all her grandparents came over from the old country. Her father was an alderman, her mother ran a pastry shop.

She first won election to Congress in 1990. She is not known to be "wealthy".

She is married to Democrat pollster, Stanley Greenberg.

She is now estimated to be worth $20 MM, one of the fifty wealthiest members of Congress.

Purportedly, since De Lauro is generally unopposed for re-election (she has never won less than 63% of the vote), she donates her campaign contributions to the Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee. In turn, the DCCC commissions Greenberg's firm to conduct polls in her district. Her campaign funds are thus laundered and returned to the family treasury as "polling expense".

Interestingly, this is not viewed as contributing to "income inequality". Instead, it is apparently considered as "earned graft".

57 posted on 01/20/2014 6:05:40 PM PST by okie01 (The Mainstream Media -- IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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To: andyk
Yep. I would like to know what the correct wealth distribution is.

I believe George Harrison said it best: "There's one for you, nineteen for me..."

58 posted on 01/20/2014 6:09:51 PM PST by Flycatcher (God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
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To: Olog-hai

what the media including FOX doesn’t understand is that a HUGE PERCENTAGE of new millionaires are democrats from SUPER LEFT Hollywood/silicon Valley...there are a ton of people who were in lowest percentile 10 years ago, to simply say that top 10% are the same people year after year is total and complete bullshit


59 posted on 01/20/2014 6:11:04 PM PST by Understand the stimulus
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To: Olog-hai

Perhaps, if income inequality is so terrible, we could do away with the crony capitalism that contributes so much to that inequality? Let’s have a free and fair market, where the wealthy have at least earned their wealth, rather than merely buying lucrative government favors through donations to insiders on both sides in our bloated government.


60 posted on 01/20/2014 6:16:35 PM PST by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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