The Struggles of the Poor...

[Howey]

rich Congressmen:

Awww....the poor, poor, poor guy! If only the struggles of the middle class were as tragic!

Rep. Denny Rehberg (R-MT), the 23rd richest member of Congress who owns millions of dollars in farm and ranch land, told an audience member at a town hall in Missoula yesterday that he and his wife "are struggling like everyone else" and that he's "land rich and cash poor."
 
"I'm a small businessman. My wife is a small businessman. You know she hasn't taken a salary in ten years? She has not, as a result of the business, because we are struggling like everyone else... with the economy," Rehberg said.

It's certainly possible Rehberg finds himself in cash crunch. But his own most recent financial disclosure form, which covers 2009, shows Rehberg with a self-reported net worth of between $6,598,014 and $56,244,998, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. That made Rehberg the 23rd richest member of Congress (by another count he was 25th richest member of Congress and the 14th richest member of the House). Based on their analysis, Roll Call pegged him as the 23rd richest member of Congress.

[Howey]

What's worse is the idiots out there who live a child's life of working a play job with the financial support of others or the idiots out there who cry unfair! when welfare recipients use their tax return to buy a $400 lcd tv they'd never be able to afford otherwise, or the black women in Mississippi who buy a beat-up old BMW so they can get to Walgreen's to pick up their medicine.

What about these people? If someone gets a scholarship based on nothing in order to go to, say...hairdressing school...do we have the right to tell that person he or she can't buy that extra tv for the family room or that second little souped up Japanese car to rip around town in so they can relive their lost youth?

Wait! Why not spend the money wasted on that car to pay your own schooling? How 'bout freeing up that money so some other poor person, you know...the one having to get around on the bus...can get some schooling and improve their standard of living?

The hypocrisy of the uninformed and ignorant is staggering...

[uselesslegs]

True story.

About a year or so ago I had someone tell me (who makes close to 71 thousand a year) that they "wish" they could get a free 658 dollars a month (my disability).  I asked them if they meant in addition to or instead of their 71k, to which they replied..., "Fuck you."

The funny thing (which I really did find funny), was prior to my mentioning that I was on disability, which changed the course of the conversation...he lumped summed me...all people on some form of disability...as "con artists"...until I mentioned I was one of those...con artists.

"Well, that's different."  "Why, because you just had a face put to your assumption?"

I'd like to see fraud heavily punished and weeded out, just like anyone else.  But I don't like the idea that unless someone got to "know" me, that I'd be one of those moocher cons they rail on.

[lil mike]

What's worse is the idiots out there who live a child's life of working a play job with the financial support of others or the idiots out there who cry unfair! when welfare recipients use their tax return to buy a $400 lcd tv they'd never be able to afford otherwise, or the black women in Mississippi who buy a beat-up old BMW so they can get to Walgreen's to pick up their medicine.

Whooa!  By the standards you set in the welfare queen thread, you just lied, unless you have actual proof that a welfare recipent used their tax return to a a TV.

And the black women in Mississippi driving BMW's to pick up medicine?  Is this medicine paid for under the State Medicaid program?

So are you and Barbour buds now?

Ha!  Thanks for the laugh...

What about these people? If someone gets a scholarship based on nothing in order to go to, say...hairdressing school...do we have the right to tell that person he or she can't buy that extra tv for the family room or that second little souped up Japanese car to rip around town in so they can relive their lost youth?

Wait! Why not spend the money wasted on that car to pay your own schooling? How 'bout freeing up that money so some other poor person, you know...the one having to get around on the bus...can get some schooling and improve their standard of living?

The hypocrisy of the uninformed and ignorant is staggering...[/i]

I agree with that last part!