Alan Grayson Points Out How Much Fox Pundits Stand to Benefit from Extension of

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Alan Grayson Points Out How Much Fox Pundits Stand to Benefit from Extension of Bush Tax Cuts
   
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Alan Grayson Points Out How Much Fox Pundits Stand to Benefit from Extension of Bush Tax Cuts
By Heather


I'm going to miss our old friend Alan Grayson who apparently isn't going to leave the House quietly. Grayson took to the House floor to point out just how much some of the talking heads over at Fox are going to benefit from an extension of the Bush tax cuts.

You could say the same thing about the lot of the cable "news" hosts and I'm sure it's not just going to be some of the ones at Fox that are happy to see their tax rates stay low if those extensions get passed, but I don't think it ever hurts to have a reminder just how much these bloviators are over-paid to come on the air and pretend that they've actually got anything in common with the working people they claim to be in touch with.

There are plenty of rich people who care about the working class and our interests, but this group is definitely not among them. The prime time serial liars on Fox and the hate talkers like Limbaugh are definitely in a class of their own with the damage they've inflicted on America.

Colby Hall at Mediaite took the time to transcribe Grayson's statements which I'll share here. Stay away from that site's comments section unless you want to take a trip into Freeperville.

Madam Speaker, we’ve heard endless braying from the Republicans, time after time, demanding an extension of tax cuts for the rich in this country. They tell us that somehow extending tax cuts for the rich will somehow create jobs. When we’ve had tax cuts for the rich for nine years and I haven’t noticed a lot of jobs being created in nine years.

They tell us it will boost the economy well I haven’t noticed that happening for nine years either. So you have to wonder why they persist in this mania, this obsession of theirs that we need to have tax cuts for the rich when the economy is flat on its back and unemployment is almost 10%. I think I have the answer. The answer turns out to be very simple.

They want tax cuts for the rich because they want a tax cut for themselves. What do I mean by that? Let’s take a look at the people who are really in charge, the ones who actually run the Republican party.

Let’s start with this gentleman here, the man with the cigar, Rush Limbaugh. Doesn’t he look happy? According according to Newsweek, he makes $58.7 million a year, and extending the tax cuts means he’ll have another $2.7 million. Mega dittos, Rush, and mega money. Let’s look at the next one.

Here’s Glenn Beck, according to Newsweek Glenn Beck makes $33 million a year as a pundit and extending the Bush Tax Cuts means a cool $1.5 million for Glenn bBeck’s ongoing imitation of Howard Beale from Network. Now let’s look at the next one.

Sean Hannity. Newsweek says that Sean Hannity, this man of the people makes $22 million a year from his act on Fox. And that means the Bush Tax cuts mean an extra $1 million. $1 million for Sean Hannity. Maybe he can afford some anger management classes. Let’s take a look at the next one.

Bill O’Reilly. He makes a modest $20 million a year from his gig on Fox. That means that the Bush tax cuts give him not quite seven figures, nearly $914,000 of extra cash. It’s easy to see why Bill O’Reilly wants to see the Bush tax cuts extended. And I have to say, he’s no pinhead when it comes to that.

And Now, Sarah Palin. Sarah Palin has made $14 million this year from cashing in on her fame. In fact, she’s done a better job of turning fame into cash than anyone in American history. $14 million. So she wants the Bush tax cuts extended so she can make an extra cool $638,000. As she was — as she would gesture (shoulder shrug.)

And now on to Newt Gingrich, the man who did such a great job of running America in the 1990’s, he wants a second chance in this decade. Newt if you do to us now what you did to us then, we’ll be in trouble. But Newt Gingrich makes $5 million a year from his punditry, he’ll get an extra quarter million dollars a year. An extra quarter million dollars a year from the Bush tax cuts being extended.

Now let’s go on to the big cheese. George W. Bush himself. The man who got us into two endless war. The man who brought us to the brink of national bankruptcy. The man who gave us $4 a gallon gasoline. George W. Bush makes a cull $4.2 million a year, according to Newsweek. That means that extending the bush tax cuts for George Bush means an extra $187,000 in his pockets every single year.

I have a better idea. Instead of placating these people and letting them spew out onto the airwaves their lies about the Bush tax cut ever revealing the fact that they stand to gain millions, millions of dollars each year from their selfish desire to take advantage of the rest of America, let’s do this. Let’s take that money and create jobs.

All that money that the Bush tax cuts are charging us that can create jobs for three million Americans a year. $30,000 job a fair wage for fair work, a dignified wage for dignified work and a way to — a dignified wage for dignified work and a way to help our economy, a better idea than putting money in the pocks of the rich. The problem is not that the poor have too much money, that’s not the problem at all, it’s that they need jobs. Thank you.


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How in the world an idiot like Grayson ever got in office amazes me. Thank God his district came to their senses and put him on the unemployment line.

KharmaTrain  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Journal  Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Sat Dec-04-10 07:20 AM
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1. The Ultimate Punditry Hypocrisy
   
These multi-millionaires and others assume to speak for the "common man". They screetch and howl about how the "socialists" are destroying the country...getting the big bucks to talk the sheeple into voting and standing up for their own best interests. These people need not worry about paying the rent or mortgage or what will happen if they lose their gigs...other their satisfying their huge egos and gambling it all away (or buying oxycotin like its going out of style) they're set for life. Their pseudo concerns are an act and a very effective one.

Yet multi millionaires Kerry, Kennedy, Soros and Alan Grayson (who isn't all that poor) can speak for the common man?

Grayson flat out lied here. The only benefit Rush and the rest will be getting is not having their tax bill go up.
They are not getting a tax cut.

It's like this, lets say the evil internet company proposes a raise in rates next year. They decide at the last minute to keep current prices is that a price cut?

NO it isn't. 

[thundley4]

It's like this, lets say the evil internet company proposes a raise in rates next year. They decide at the last minute to keep current prices is that a price cut?

NO it isn't.

Just remember, DUmmies and DemonRats believe that all money is the governments.  They also believe that a reduction of a proposed increase in spending is a cut from the current levels.

[Texacon]

Just a few words for the DUmmies;

1.) In 1977, the executive director of the Illinois Legislative Advisory Committee for Public Aid took action against Linda Taylor, a Chicago resident.  It was claimed that Taylor used 14 alias names to receive an estimated $150,000 in medical coverage, cash assistance and food stamps.  It was said that the woman migrated from district to district using these aliases to fraudulently obtain benefits.   

2.)  In 1981, Dorothy Woods was jailed on 12 counts of welfare fraud.  She claimed 38 non-existent children and manipulated the system for more than $300,000.  The most disturbing part about this story is that Woods was rumored to be a wealthy woman before committing the crime. 

3.)  Arlens Otis of Cook County, Illinois was indicted on 613 counts of fraudulently receiving $150,839 in welfare benefits from July of 1972 to February of 1978.

4.)  The biggest case of welfare fraud came when Barbara Williams was found guilty of manipulating Los Angeles County for $239,000 in benefits.  The crime provoked a conviction that sentenced her to eight years in prison.   

http://www.spamlaws.com/welfare-fraud.html

Welfare fraud cost Florida taxpayers an estimated $86 million last year. Local HRS officials said they don't know how much of that occurs in Volusia County, but they estimate the crackdown could save $500,000 a year in the two counties.

Since the Front-End Review project began Dec. 1, state workers have saved $22,000 in benefits that would have been paid to seven households - six in DeLand and one in New Smyrna Beach, HRS figures show.

http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1994-12-21/news/9412210459_1_welfare-fraud-volusia-county-volusia-flagler

^^^^ That one is from 1994! ^^^^

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Clinton is quietly scaling back the federal government's commitment to help states investigate welfare and food stamp fraud, by some estimates more than a billion-dollar problem.

The administration's plan would force states to pick up a bigger share of the cost of finding welfare recipients who work off the books, hide assets, collect multiple checks or sell food stamps on the black market.

>>>snip<<<

Adds Donna FitzGibbon, president of the Wisconsin Council on Welfare Fraud: "It's like leaving the vault at the bank open and hoping nobody walks by and takes the money. Ninety percent won't, but what about the other 10 percent?"

Even the largest government estimates of fraud are not that high. Congressional officials now peg food stamp fraud at $1 billion a year while the HHS Inspector General found that as early as 1987 fraud in Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) was a "billion-dollar problem." The government will spend $22.4 billion on food stamp benefits and $23 billion on AFDC benefits this year.

http://www.journaltimes.com/news/national/article_3156f9b7-625d-595d-9b5f-08e028b5cf52.html

^^^^ That one is from 1993! ^^^^

I can only imagine what it's like 17 - 18 years later ....


And that is from one very quick search.  Who's stealing from Whom??

KC

[Carl]

Just a few words for the DUmmies;



^^^^ That one is from 1994! ^^^^


^^^^ That one is from 1993! ^^^^

I can only imagine what it's like 17 - 18 years later ....


And that is from one very quick search.  Who's stealing from Whom??

KC

H5 for that.

[jukin]

Says the man worth $30 million dollars.

[ColonialMarine0431]

When we’ve had tax cuts for the rich for nine years and I haven’t noticed a lot of jobs being created in nine years.

I'm so sick of hearing this flat out lying liberal meme.

[thundley4]

I'm so sick of hearing this flat out lying liberal meme.

That chart needs one more line showing when the DemonRats took over congress in 2007.  You'll notice that is when unemployment started rising.

[true_blood]

I'm so sick of hearing this flat out lying liberal meme.

Great post. What say you, you lurking DUmmies.
I thought the lord zero was our answers to all that is wrong. Unemployment hasn't stopped with lord nothing. He threw a trillion dollar bill at the problem and FAILED. A trillion dollars!
Maybe if Congress had only written that bill, maybe it may have worked? None the less, the lord nothing knew what the bill was about. His buddy Van Jones, (the commie scum), and the Apollo Alliance wrote it.

[jukin]

I'm so sick of hearing this flat out lying liberal meme.

The graph is incorrect. The latest data should be at 9.8% not 9%.

[ColonialMarine0431]

The graph is incorrect. The latest data should be at 9.8% not 9%.

Note at the bottom of the graph. It's as of 29 November. 

[DumbAss Tanker]

Grayson?  Grayson?  Name seems oddly familiar, can't quite place it.  Must not be anyone important.

 

[Chris_]

Grayson?  Grayson?  Name seems oddly familiar, can't quite place it.  Must not be anyone important.

 

I wonder if the MSM will bother to follow up on the guy.  He'll show up on some politically-oriented 'Where Are They Now' segments a decade from now managing a McDonald's somewhere.

[thundley4]

I wonder if the MSM will bother to follow up on the guy.  He'll show up on some politically-oriented 'Where Are They Now' segments a decade from now managing a McDonald's somewhere.

He may become a regular DUmmie if that was him over there and he hasn't forgotten the Island already.

[DumbAss Tanker]

We could be watching the next Lyndon LaRouche or Eugene V. Debs a-borning, gents!

 

[BlueStateSaint]

I wonder if the MSM will bother to follow up on the guy.  He'll show up on some politically-oriented 'Where Are They Now' segments a decade from now managing working the counter in a McDonald's somewhere.

Fixt!

[diesel driver]

I wonder if the MSM will bother to follow up on the guy.  He'll show up on some politically-oriented 'Where Are They Now' segments a decade from now managing a McDonald's somewhere.

I don't know.  Managing a MickeyD's may be above his pay scale, if not his IQ.

[Doc]

Alan who??

doc

[Freeper]

As Glenn Beck and Pat Grey were kind enough to bring up the other day he lost by 18 points.