As was widely reported yesterday, Weasel Chuck Schumer (Senator from New York) famously said on the Senate floor that the American people don’t care about the pork in the stimulus bill. As infuriating as that is, its not the worst thing Schumer said.
Yesterday Senator Schumer was on with Neil Cavuto’s show on FoxNews. Stuart Varney was in for Neil, and asked Senator Schumer about this remarks and also about the hot air Treasury Secretary Geithner spewed yesterday. In his response about Geithner’s new non-plan and the wild expense of this all, Senator Schumer said that Geithner’s plan used the Fed’s money and it wasn’t taxpayer money (man I wish I remembered to TIVO this).
Excuse Me?
Mr. Schumer has obviously forgotten a few things about this country and our government, so let me remind him.
- The government works for the people
- Everything the government “has” belongs to the people.
- Every dollar they spend
- Every ounce of gold in Fort Knox
- Every piece of paper in their office and every brick in every building
- Every single thing the government has belongs to us
- Every dollar the government spends is a dollar from the taxpayers pocket
- Every dollar the government earns is a dollar belonging to the taxpayer
Washington has nothing, NOTHING that doesn’t belong to us. Whether it was earned through tax revenue this year, or through the spoils of war in years past… whether it was received as a gift from a foreign government, or from the labor of a government employee… every asset belonging to the Federal Government belongs to us.
Senator Schumer and others would do well in remembering that.
We do care about wasteful spending. We do care about wasteful government. If Senator Schumer doesn’t, then its time we replace him with someone who does.
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