Posted on 04/18/2020 8:44:14 AM PDT by rktman
was unaffected by the coronavirus, appeared virtually on a late-night television show to flaunt her mansion and personal stockpile of gourmet ice cream. "I like it better than anything else," the speaker mused, in the middle of a viral outbreak that has killed tens of thousands of Americans and left millions unemployed.
The PPP was part of the CARES Act, the relief bill passed after the government shut down businesses they deemed nonessential. Small businesses, which employ a majority of the workforce, were depending upon the PPP for funding to retain workers and keep their businesses afloat as the government experiments with closing down parts of the economy and requiring Americans to stay home. Every day the PPP goes without funding, small businesses lay off workers and close up shop for good.
Knowing the speaker is spending her days eating ice cream in the comfort of her mansion, Sen. Marco Rubio offered up his own personal cache of ice cream -- albeit, far smaller than Pelosi's -- if the speaker moves immediately to refund the PPP.
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OK. Now that there is funny!
Well played, Marco.
Quid pro quo!
Dems act shocked!!!
How Out of Touch do you have to be to show your HUGH top of the line refrigerator with ice cream that costs the same as a pound of porterhouse steak and not realize the irony??
Or what a slap in the face it is.
Congress should be a per diem, part time job. It was once.
This is series.
Marie Antoinette.
Even better is the twenty-five thousand dollars worth of refrigerators to keep it in. Nobody cares what she spends on her kitchen appliances but when she is on the taxpayer funded payroll while denying the funds for those taxpayer to pay their tax paying employees it’s a bit hard to swallow.
A bribe by any other flavor would be so cold.
ROPE
This show-off is of no small import, for this is liberalism, who, in the spirit of Communism, present itself as saviors of the oppressed, meaning by those who obtained blessings by obedience to Biblical principles, yet as with Communists, the "saviors" are the ones who end up with what they promise to their supporters, after solving income disparity by making the providers poorer as well as those they supported.
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