POL Pelosi: ‘It’s All About Fairness in Our Country’

dstraito

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What a piece of work!

Pelosi: ‘It’s All About Fairness in Our Country’

Speaking at a United Steelworkers event on Monday, Nancy Pelosi railed against the wealthy and income inequality in America:

We’re talking about addressing the disparity in our country of income, where the wealthy people continue to get wealthier, and some other people are falling out of the middle class when we want to bring many more people into the middle class. But that disparity is not just about wages alone. That disparity is about ownership and equity. It’s all about fairness in our country.
Pelosi also continued her charge that Republicans are receiving loads of foreign interest money, and asserted that the Wall Street reform bill was about saving jobs on “main street”:

Uh, Hello, Pelosi, anyone home? DEMS receive twice as much “Foreign” PAC meney as GOP: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/dems-receive-twice-as-much-foreign-pac-money-as-gop/

While President Barack Obama and other well-known figureheads of the Democratic Party are criticizing Republicans for allegedly benefiting from “foreign donations” to conservative interest groups, a new analysis from the Center for Responsive Politics has revealed that the Democratic Party has raised more than $1 million from political action committees affiliated with foreign companies — about twice as much as the $510,000 the GOP has received from PACs on the same list.


"You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the
wealthy out of prosperity. What one person receives without working for,
another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot
give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from
somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not
have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and
when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because
somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend,
is the beginning of the end of any nation.
You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it."
Adrian Rogers, 1931
 

Jeep

Veteran Member
So is she including herself and husband in that group. They are multi-millionaries themselves or does she feel she should be excluded because she is the wannabe queen.
 

summerthyme

Administrator
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With Liberty and Fairness for all...

I guess I missed that part...

(can we take up a collection to ship her to Mother Russia.. she'd be MUCH happier there)

Summerthyme
 

Dennis Olson

Chief Curmudgeon
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HEY DEMOCRATS - Wanna cut the wealth disparity and bring more people back into the middle class?

BRING BACK OUR FREAKIN' JOBS, A**HOLES!!!!
 

mzkitty

I give up.
Financial disclosures: Wall Street’s bull market in '09 lifted lawmakers’ net worth
By Kevin Bogardus, Puneet Kollipara and Andrew Stiles - 06/16/10 08:25 PM ET


Congressional leaders in both parties reported dramatic increases in their net worth last year on the back of a rising stock market.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) reported the biggest gain for 2009. The Speaker’s worth jumped by $9 million to roughly $21.7 million last year, according to financial disclosure statements released by the House clerk and the Senate secretary on Wednesday.

House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) saw his wealth rise by about $1.4 million, to $2.4 million, in 2009 compared to his report for 2008.

The recovery by the stock market from the financial crisis appears to be the main reason for the increased net worth. The Dow Jones Industrial climbed nearly 4,000 points in 2009 after diving to 6,626 points on March 6, 2009, one of the greatest bull markets in history. For the calendar year, it gained more than 1,600 points in 2009.

The market has lost a bit of value since the beginning of 2010.

In 2008, many lawmakers saw their net worth plummet as stocks were ravaged by the financial crisis.

Some lawmakers also increased their net worth in 2009 by reducing liabilities.

For example, Pelosi reported a lower liability for a mortgage she holds on a California vineyard, listed as at least $1 million instead of at least $5 million the year before.

More at link (about other people):

http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/103733-wall-streets-09-bull-market-lifted-lawmakers-net-worth
 
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