Only in Amerika

1) Only in Amerika could politicians talk about the greed of the rich at a $40,000 a plate campaign fund raising event.

2) Only in Amerika could people claim that the government still discriminates against black Americans when we have a black President, a black Attorney General, and roughly 18% of the federal workforce who are black (although 12% of the U.S. population is black).

3) Only in Amerika could we have had the two people most responsible for our tax code — head of the Treasury Department Timothy Geithner and chair of the House Ways and Means Committee Charles Rangel — BOTH turn out to be tax dodgers who are in favor of higher taxes.

4) Only in Amerika could we have terrorists kill people in the name of Allah and have the media be more concerned that Muslims might receive discrimination in the backlash.

5) Only in Amerika would we make people who want to legally become U.S. citizens wait for years in their home countries and pay tens of thousands of dollars for the privilege while millions of illegal migrants pour across our southern border, and if you object to the latter you’re called “racist”. To top it off, the federal government then sues the state of Arizona for trying to enforce the federal government’s own rules on illegal immigration!

6) Only in Amerika could the people who believe in balancing the budget and sticking by the country’s Constitution be thought of as hateful “extremists.”

7) Only in Amerika could you need to present a driver’s license to cash a check or buy alcohol, but not to vote — and if you disagree with the latter, you’re called “racist”.

8) Only in Amerika could citizens be required to present their birth certificate to apply for a passport, but not Barack Hussein Obama Jr. to certify his eligibility for the presidency of the United States — and if you inquire about that oddity, you’re called “racist” and other names (“birthers”), mocked at, and dismissed.

9) Only in Amerika could the government collect more tax dollars from the people than any nation in recorded history, still spend a trillion dollars more than it has per year for total spending of $7 million PER
MINUTE, and complain that it doesn’t have enough money.

10) Only in Amerika could the rich people who pay 86% of all income taxes be accused of not paying their “fair share” by people who don’t pay any income taxes at all, some of whom even get money “back”.

H/t our beloved Grouchy Fogie.

~Eowyn

Are You a Psychopath?

Are you glib and socially charming?

Do you have a sense of grossly-inflated grandiose self-worth?

Are you prone to being bored and engage in risky thrill-seeking behavior?

Anthony Weiner takes lewd pic of himself in the Congressional gym

When you’ve done something you know is wrong, do you lack remorse?

One of the 10 most corrupt politicians in the United States, Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY) in 2010, was found guilty and censured on 11 of the 12 ethics charges against him by the House Ethics Committee — soliciting funds and donations for the Rangel Center from those with business before the Ways and Means Committee; improper use of Congressional letterhead and other House resources in those solicitations; submitting incomplete and inaccurate financial disclosure statements; using one of his Harlem apartments as an office when he had Congressional dealings with the landlord; failing to pay taxes on his Dominican villa. Rangel continues to insist he’s done nothing wrong.

Do you lack empathy for others who are suffering?

Speaker of the House and multimillionaire Nancy Pelosi (D-Ca) boasts that she went to Congress “to fight for America’s working families,” but insisted on a US Air Force jet all to herself to fly her between D.C. and San Francisco. For the in-flight services on that jet plane, US taxpayers were billed for $101,000 over a period of two years.

It is estimated that Michelle Obama’s many vacations cost taxpayers $10 million in just one year — at a time when millions of Americans are unemployed and/or on food stamps. This pic was taken when, clad in a designer Jean-Claude Gautier top, she vacationed in Spain, at a cost of $375,000.

Take the Psychopathy Test by going HERE.

The test has 20 questions.

If your combined score is 5 or less, you are completely average compared to general population. If your combined score is 20 or more, you have a mind of a true criminal. If your combined score is 30 or more, you have a mind of a psycho.

Thankfully, my test result says I’m not a psycho.  LOL

See also “How Politicians Are Like Serial Killers.”

~Eowyn

What Would Jesus Do?

That is the question corrupted Congresscritter Charles Rangel (D-NY) asks when it comes to the debt ceiling debate. He doesn’t know exactly what Jesus would say about the debt crisis, but he thinks religious leaders should be a part of the conversation.

“It is a moral question. So I am surprised that we don’t hear from the rabbis and the priests and the ministers and the imams. This is their business, not just politicians’,” he told Fox News on Sunday.

Two days earlier, Rangel held a news conference where he asked “What would Jesus do” about the debt problem He called on religious leaders to speak up on the Medicare and Social Security cuts Republicans want to make, which would hit the elderly and the poor the hardest.

Rangel insists, “If the sky, the economic sky was to fall the very rich in this country would not feel any pain at all.” But when pressed on exactly what that higher power would say about America’s money problems, he replied “I don’t know what Jesus or Moses or anyone would say. But, the issues are so morally clear…we are our brothers keepers.“

Rangel summed up his argument by saying, “You know all of this is biblical… If you read your bibles and you read the spiritual scriptures you will see that clearly that Jesus would have something to say about this debate.”

This is ironic coming from a man who was found guilty by the House panel of 11 ethics violations. I’m pretty sure Jesus would advise Rangel live to a higher standard.  And I’m pretty sure Jesus would advise our lawmakers to be more fiscally responsible and get our national debt (at over $14 TRILLION) under control.

DCG