Yes…it’s true. After listening carefully to the latest events in Washington….I have decided to support the “Public Option”. I believe it’s time that all of us bind together in support of this idea. If you’re not a proponent of this “Public Option”…hopefully by the time you finish reading this, you too will agree that it is time for CHANGE....and the "Public Option" is the ONLY way to go. Please try to keep an open mind as you read…….
Charlie Rangel (D-N.Y.) is the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. This is the committee that is charged with writing tax legislation and bills affecting Social Security, Medicare, and other entitlement programs. (pay particular attention to the “tax legislation” part…since as it would appear by the title…they write the laws regarding taxes) Recently Chuck had to file an amended financial disclosure report….showing a net worth of almost double what he had previously filed. Seriously?....I don’t know about you but I think I can guess my net worth…off of the top of my head…a little closer than half of what it actually is…..much less if I were having to fill out a required “disclosure report”, and had the time to do a little research. (Especially knowing that I was the Chairman of the committee put in place to write laws that pertained to those types of disclosures)…..But in Chuckle’s defense I will offer a reasonable explanation….it seems that he simply forgot to list a couple of bank accounts….One was a checking account with over $250,000 in it. (Actually that is SO easy to do…I myself have done it many times, and if you’re honest you have too….)….The other was a mutual fund worth somewhere in that $250,000 range as well. That didn’t include another bank account and other mutual funds…..and other assets such as stock holdings and land that totaled somewhere in the neighborhood of another $300,000….(that’s not the neighborhood I live in)…..So the overview is this….He said he was worth somewhere around $1,000,000….when actually it was closer to twice that….If that was all there was, I would be…..well….nope…I still wouldn’t be ok with it….but happily, that’s not all that Chuckbert did……He also “forgot” to report more than $75,000 worth of rental income from a villa that he owns in the Dominican Republic….(again those kinds of things are SOOOO easy to forget)…In 2008, it was found out that Chucky was renting 4 “rent-stabilized” apartments in Upper Manhattan…..Now the fact that these places were “rent-stabilized”….and that meant that he was paying probably HALF of the fair market value....seems fair….right? I mean after all, why shouldn’t he get a little help since he’s only worth $2,000,000?
If the Chuckster were the only person in Washington that was pulling these types of shenanigans, antics, capers, dirty tricks, funny business, hanky-panky, high jinks, horseplay, mischievousness and last, but certainly not least monkey business……then I STILL wouldn’t be ok with it. And the truth is….he’s not. Washington is full of corruption……(yes Virginia….there are corrupt Republicans as well) and it’s time to vote them out of office. It’s time for term limits. It’s time that this bunch of losers, liars and tax cheats were forced to go out and get REAL jobs. There’s the clincher….if they were forced to get “real jobs” many of them would probably end up back on the government payroll…(only this time on unemployment)….since far too many of them have NEVER held a “real job”. By the way….I personally don’t count “community organizing” a real job, but that's another whole topic to be discussed at another time……It’s bad enough that you have someone who can’t keep up with their own personal finances…while serving as the CHAIRMAN of a committee that writes laws regarding taxes……..but then when it is proven that he broke those very laws….nothing is done?.....that is NOT acceptable….that means that it a really good chance that the Chuckmeister’s buddies in Washington are just as corrupt as he is. Maybe they don’t want anyone looking too closely at those types of things either…..possibly out of fear of what they might be hiding as well...(Enter Sen. Maxine Waters (D-CA)who said this in defense of who....by this statement...would seem to be her fellow tax cheat..."I want to tell you, there are many members who, if you go back over all of their records, over all of the years, you're going to find that there were disclosures that were not made")...Let me see if I understand what she is saying....You can't pick on him, because the rest of us do the same thing....hmmm,did I get that right?....Try that defense the next time you happen to be in court
Ok…..right about now you are probably saying to yourself….”hmmm…as interesting and informative as this has been….and although it could possible be one of the most intriguing and revealing articles that I have EVER read regarding the corruption that takes place in Washington D.C…….and although I agree with every word of it…..what does this have to do with the public option?” (tell the truth…..that IS what you were saying, isn’t it?....come on…..admit it, you were saying those exact words…)
Well since you asked…..and since I brought it up….I will answer your inquiry…..The “Public Option” that I am in favor of is just a little, tiny bit different than the one that is being swatted around Washington right now…..Here’s my idea…when someone like The Lone Rangel is found to be breaking the law….he should be punished. If it is found to be a law that he helped to “craft”, then his punishment should be twice the regular punishment. Anyone who is found to have known about the guilty party’s indiscretion and still did nothing…or stood in the way of said person’s punishment….would receive the same punishment as the original guilty party. Here’s the simple version…..Everyone knows that Chuck the Magic Dragon is guilty…..obviously there are many more who have know for some time….and still did nothing….those that only recently found out about his crimes and STILL stood up for him should be found as guilty as him and receive the same punishment.
Right about now there are literally millions of people screaming (ok that number is a little off)…..actually there are 3 people asking quietly….”but what about the public option?”
Here it is…..Chuckorama and all of those who have covered up for him and made excuses for his behavior……should be stripped of their places on committees (especially chairmanships)….their seats in Congress….and then they should ALL be led out in front of the Capitol and be publicly punished. In all fairness…..I feel that they should be “placed in stocks”…so the American people can stop by and finally get a meeting with them….or do lunch…(without them hiding behind their aides)…in order to be able to tell them in person, how they feel about the job that they and the rest of our “elected officials” are doing in Washington…..I personally think that Mr. Rangel’s (didn’t see that one coming….did you?) punishment should be MUCH more severe…since he has probably helped to write laws that have, more than likely, sent some of the “little people” to prison for doing things nowhere nearly as reprehensible as his actions. I’m not sure exactly what that additional punishment should be…(I’m open to suggestions…).….but regardless what it is…..it should be the people’s OPTION for these elected criminals to be punished in PUBLIC......Yup….I’m all for that there PUBLIC OPTION……..Then Again……That’s Just Me.
Sign me on to that Public Option too, buddy!
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