Do As I Say
You know how Republicans in Washington DeeCee are appalled, just appalled I tell you, that our nation has debt and that we should live within our means.
Oh lookie over there! It’s the Hypocrisy Fairy!
… many of the same lawmakers who are urging the nation to balance its books are themselves in debt and have taken out personal and/or business loans.
Really? Well, 14 of them have more debt than the average American working family.
The Texans are my favorites.
House Budget Committee Member Roger Williams (R-TX): Said Wednesday: “We have to have a balanced budget. I have to balance my budget. Everybody in America has to balance their family’s budget or their business’ budget, not every ten years, not even every single year, but every single day.” Reported more than $2.5 million in business debts
And —
House Budget Committee Member Bill Flores (R-TX): Wrote: “It’s time Washington was forced to finally live within its means and cut up the credit cards. Every American family and 49 out of 50 states currently abide by some form of a balanced-budget requirement. If they can make the hard choices to pay their bills and live within their means, then Washington should too,” and “American families and businesses must live by this principle every day, and they want Congress to abide by the same rule.” Reported two mortgages on residences totaling over $1.5 million.
You can go check to see if one of them is your congressvarmint.
Ah… the sweet smell of hypocrisy.
Thanks to Sharon for the heads up.
Uh, this is a bad argument, most American families I am aware of both have a mortgage and buy their cars on time.
1So the fact that every American family uses a balanced budget is BS.
Yeah, and wait til one of your grown kids threatens to move home with two big tail-waggin’ dogs. You’d dig out your savings to save the house. Thank God our house and cars are paid for.
2Thanks for the uppityness from the Texans. I bin wonderin’ about Roger Williams. I’m passin’ this on.
If you want to talk about strict accounting principles, imagine Paul Ryan submitting his fantasy budget in any private sector company. They wouldn’t even wait until five o’clock to fire that boy.
But it is okay for the Congress to have ideologically driven fantasy budget where numbers don’t mean anything and unicorns poop rainbows with a pot of gold at each end.
3Ryan’s idea of a balanced budget is living off Social Security until you find a rich lobbying wife..
4When you put a couple of wars on the Credit card, it’s hard to “balance the budget”.
Iraq cost us how many “trillion” and Afghanistan has cost how much??
Toss in the Medicare Part “D” prescription thing that wasn’t budgeted.
People want to know why we still blame Bush/Cheney.
This is why.
5Republicans talk a good game and call themselves “fiscal conservatives” when there’s a Democrat in office, but the whole thing goes belly up when a Republican president takes over. (Clinton vs. both Bushes)
6Democrats could still balance the budget if the repugs would shut up and get the hell out of the way. Maryelle and Miemaw both have it right.
7Alas, Missouri is well represented, House Budget Committee Member Vicky Hartzler (R-MO): Said in a floor speech: “Families I talk to, they say, Every year we balance our budget, how come Washington doesn’t? Every small business I visit says, We balance our budget, how come Washington doesn’t? Every farmer and rancher I visit with says, We balance our budget, how come Washington doesn’t?”
The article indicates that she “Reported five real estate mortgages totaling more than $900,000.” Which is no small accomplishment in that neck of the woods. But our gal Vicky, who touts her employment experience amongst other things as a farm equipment sales person, (around here we just figure that’s code for manure spreader which lends itself real well as a qualification for Congress), is no stranger to either the hypocracy or stupidity sweepstakes. She is a proud “Birther” and holds all manor of fascinating views!
Addressing a conference of college students at the Eagle Forum Collegians Summit in Washington D.C. on June 9, 2011, Hartzler said that if same-sex marriages were allowed, it would lead to pedophiles and polygamists also being allowed to marry.”
She isn’t real fond of women either, Hartzler’s fierce partisan opposition to the Missouri Assembly’s ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment once had her commenting, “I don’t want women used to pass a liberal agenda!” Such staunch statements led then Republican Governor Matt Blunt to appoint her Chair of the Missouri Women’s Council in 2005. She doesn’t just drink the tea, she brews it!
By the way, the guy she defeated, Ike Skelton, once told Todd Aikin to how shall I say it, place it where the son doesn’t shine (Ike was a bit less delicate about it and CSpan caught it on tape). Which near as I can tell is as good a reason to keep someone in office as any other. Yep, we could have kept Ike but instead we have Vicky…. Sigh!
8Dear Lord! Sun not son!
9A mathematician, an accountant and an economist apply for the same job.
The interviewer calls in the mathematician and asks “What do two plus two equal?” The mathematician replies “Four.” The interviewer asks “Four, exactly?” The mathematician looks at the interviewer incredulously and says “Yes, four, exactly.”
Then the interviewer calls in the accountant and asks the same question “What do two plus two equal?” The accountant says “On average, four – give or take ten percent, but on average, four.”
Then the interviewer calls in the economist and poses the same question “What do two plus two equal?” The economist gets up, locks the door, closes the shade, sits down next to the interviewer and says, “What do you want it to equal”?
10What’s interesting is the whole concept of the government needs to be debt free to be fiscally responsible but businesses and invidviduals can be up to their ears in loans and still be responsible. So do all repubs think that American Bonds are also “bad” business. According to wikipedia
A debt investment in which an investor loans money to an entity (corporate or governmental) that borrows the funds for a defined period of time at a fixed interest rate. Bonds are used by companies, municipalities, states and U.S. and foreign governments to finance a variety of projects and activities.
So does every Republican state (you know those states that are glaringly red on the maps) not issue bonds?
11If all Americans were debt free, the banks would go out of business. Hmmm?
12Ralph, from your mouth to God’s ear!
13Maybe the country should make a balance sheet, listing all of its many, many assets vs. its debt. That’s what a normal lender would want to see.
14Tom Rice is my congressvarmint, and is one of our firm’s best clients. I cannot, therefore, ‘write to my congressman’ or call his office to tell him what I think of his politics. I can tell you, however, I did not vote for him, and that those mortgages are likely all but one on business properties for which he’s pulling some high-dollar rent.
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