Representative Jan Schakowsky: You Don’t Deserve To Keep Your Money

Flopping Aces ^ | 09-17-11 | Warren Beatty

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Representative Jan Schakowsky’s Statement

On WLS’s Don & Roma radio show yesterday morning (September 15, 2011), Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky claimed that Americans aren’t entitled to all of their own money. Teenager Tyler Hinsley, at the GOP presidential candidate debate in California, asked, “Of every dollar that I earn, how much do you think I deserve to keep?” Co-host Don Wade asked Schakowsky to answer the same question. After delaying for as long as she could, she finally answered. “I’ll put it this way, you don’t deserve to keep all of it. It’s not a question of deserving, because what government is, is those things that we decide to do together. And there are many things that we decide to do together like have our national security. Like have police and fire. What about the people that work at the National Institute of Health who are looking for a cure for cancer,” Schakowsky said. Further, Schakowsky declined to answer what percentage of a person’s income he/she deserves to keep. “I pay at a 35% tax rate, happy to do it.” Rep. Schakowsky is not unique in her opinion. Her views are typical of a liberal view that sees a person’s earnings as belonging first to the state. She says one reason the 2009 stimulus was not successful was that it was not large enough.

Representative Schakowsky and her Husband

Janice D. “Jan” Schakowsky is the U.S. Representative for Illinois’s 9th congressional district. She is a Democrat. Her husband is Robert Creamer, a convicted felon. He was sentenced to five months in federal prison for writing rubber checks and failing to pay withholding taxes. He also faced 11 months of house arrest once he finished his sentence. Creamer has strong ties to Obama. Creamer had been teaching a group of young volunteers for the presidential campaign of Barack Obama. The idea of a convicted felon who kited checks lecturing idealistic Obama campaign workers on how to raise money and get elected is, uhhhh, a bit much. He was a registered lobbyist working against the Senate confirmation of UN ambassador John Bolton, paid by the George Soros-funded “Open Society Policy Center.”

Schakowsky’s Own Jobs Bill

At a rally at Chicago’s Goudy Elementary School, Schakowsky previewed her “Emergency Jobs to Restore the American Dream Act,” a bill modeled after FDR’s Work Progress Administration (WPA). It is proposed to cost $227 billion and would be implemented over two years, financed by separate legislation introduced by Schakowsky called the “Fairness in Taxation Act,” (see below). The congresswoman said that her plan will create 2.2 million jobs and decrease the unemployment rate by 1.3 percent. “The worst deficit this country faces isn’t the budget deficit,” Schakowsky said. “It’s the jobs deficit. We need to get our people and our economy moving again.”

Schakowsky Discusses Obama’s “Jobs Bill” Speech

“… the American people are waiting for the government to come up with a plan, which the president did tonight, on how are we going to put Americans back to work, how are we going to put money in their pocket so they can actually go out and be customers and be the job creators that are going to help, as he put it, to jumpstart our economy. I thought that was a very practical speech, as well as a very inspiring speech. I think a lot of people who have been wanting to hear the president with his strength and inspiration actually saw that president tonight.” “Well, where the heck are those jobs going to be if the federal government doesn’t help to jumpstart those jobs.” “… I certainly would rather focus on what he talked about is the fairness in our tax policies, that – and I don’t understand even why they, the Republicans laughed when he referred to Warren Buffett, who said, you know, tax me more. The American people understand that there is not fairness right now in who’s actually footing the bill …”

I find it most interesting that Schakowsky thinks “the American people are waiting for the government to come up with a plan.” I guess she thinks the American people are helpless without government.

[Vaduz]

Janice D. “Jan” Schakowsky is the U.S. Representative for Illinois’s 9th congressional district. She is a Democrat. Her husband is Robert Creamer, a convicted felon. He was sentenced to five months in federal prison for writing rubber checks and failing to pay withholding taxes

Anothe case of the law is for you for we are above it,how progressive of her.

[ken21]

public “servant”

now means

public “parasite”.

[vinylsidingman]

the American people are waiting for the government to come up with a plan

Until idiots like this are removed from gov't,, we'll never recover from Odumbo

[TalBlack]

“It’s not a question of deserving, because what government...”

Then why are you and your rotten scheming ilk always framing it in Moral terms 24/7/365? That word ‘deserving’ didn’t just float out of nowhere.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Teenager Tyler Hinsley, at the GOP presidential candidate debate in California, asked, “Of every dollar that I earn, how much do you think I deserve to keep?”

This is a question that should be asked of every single candidate in every election. It's a pity that professional journalists haven't been doing so and a teenager had to do their job for them.

[IbJensen]

She’s a bit-h and her husband’s a felon. Who outside of the crooked state of Illinoise (sic)gives a damn about what this leftist imbecile says about anything?

[JimSEA]

According to the progressive idealogy, you don’t “deserve” to keep even a penny. The government “allows” you to keep what they deem sufficient to you basic needs. That is unless you are a crony, then you will be rewarded accordingly.

[central_va]

Why a division is over due . Divide the republic thru secession or otherwise red-blue. Progressive/constitutionalist etc. Whatever you want to call it we either do it now peacefully our with Civil War. I’m good either way...

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[JoeFromSidney]

Actually the kid asked the wrong question. The proper question is, "How much of my money do you think the government deserves to take?"

[ExCTCitizen]

“I’ll put it this way, you don’t deserve to keep all of it. It’s not a question of deserving, because what government is, is those things that we decide to do together. And there are many things that we decide to do together like have our national security. Like have police and fire. What about the people that work at the National Institute of Health who are looking for a cure for cancer,” Schakowsky said.

This F'ing congressMORON thinks the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT PAYS for our (local) POLICE and FIRE? Schakowsky -- no what the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT deserves is maybe 3% of what we earn - for only the following:

National Defense (and Border Security)

Treasury (to print GOLD BACKED MONEY!)

NOTHING ELSE!!!

[GregoryFul]

Schakowsky - another pig at the trough!

[ronnie raygun]

All you need to know about this creep, google “schakowskis husband”