Hoyer, Perriello are hypocritical
Published: June 29, 2009
How hypocritical can Rep. Steny Hoyer and Rep. Tom Perriello get? One or both of them voted for many trillions of dollars for bailouts, budget stimulus and now health care. After that, suddenly they invent pay-as-you-go federal spending?
I guess they couldn’t think of any more pet projects to fund, so now they’ve decided to become frugal and they expect the public to believe them. How gullible do they think the people are?
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Joe Thomas asked Tom Periello on the radio if he had even read the “cap and trade” bill before he voted on it. With out a seconds hesitation Periello said yes he had read the bill over the weekend.
This bill is over 1500 pages and the weekend that he referred to was the 4th of July weekend. I submit to you that he lied. I am an at least average reader, and I could not read a 1500 bill, full of legal mumbo jumbo in two days. So, he did not spend time with his family or anything else on that holiday weekend? He lied. If he would have really read it, and if he had any common sense at all, he would not have voted for it because the idea is madness. From my experience in life, liars are liars, they do it to try to get their way in life by decieving others. This is what is representing our district, a liar. I would be ashamed to have a Periello bumper sticker on my car.
Is there an echo in here?
Great letter, every thing written was 100% true.
Perriello shouldn’t be in office. He doesn’t know if he’s coming or going or riding a bicycle.
I can’t help but feel that this all too much like the pot calling the kettle black. One has a political beef with the right, drop the h-bomb. Ditto the other ‘side’. This has got to be one of the most over-worked words in recent history.
Strictly financially speaking, my casual observation is that the majority of folks who espouse frugality don’t even come close to practicing it. Moreover, many from an older genberation see their entitlements as God-given rights, as necessary government support, no matter that what they recieve from Social Security and/or Medicare far outstrips their historical contributions. It seems that some Ponzi schemes are more desirable than others. Banks are evil, but we willingly borrow and spend more than we need or should, so it is the enabler who is culpable. The drunken sot blames the barkeep that served them to much. We grouse about high taxes, but depending in what “feeds” our respective local economies—maybe its ethanol subsidies, maybe its tax credits to oil companies, maybe its tax rebates for purchasing this or that, maybe its military and/or security expenditures—we turn a blind eye toward what puts bread on our table, as long as someone else is paying for that bread. What percentage of us actually come close to paying for what we consume—energy, education, health acre, food, housing—so far removed from the market—so heavily regulated, subsidized, and manipulated—how can any good economic outcome result?
So, my response is this: They dare, just like you, to demonstrate, and repeat daily, ignorance. And that IS a right.
Great letter! I could not believe Perriello and Hoyer had the nerve to lecture us all on financial responsibility.
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