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A CONGRESSMAN SPOKE AT MY COMPANY'S STAFF MEETING TODAY (VANITY)
RUCKUS INC
Posted on 04/07/2004 3:31:11 PM PDT by RUCKUS INC.
It just occurred to me that I should probably share with my fellow Freepers that Congressman Gary Miller (R - 42nd Congressional District) spoke at my company's staff meeting this morning.
Congressman Miller is an extremely funny man and he came to announce the passage of a new bill that makes it OK for Credit Unions to lend past their legal lending limit when lending to a religious institution.
Anyway, he shared some of his insights on endangered species that had me holding my sides.
"The gnat-catcher isn't an endangered species... he's just lost. Go down to Central America and you'll see millions of them... we shouldn't protect these birds... we should pack them up and ship them back home!"
Anyway, kind of hard to recreate his delivery and what not but I just thought I should share with you all that Congressman Miller is a man of faith and has a great sense of humor. I really enjoyed the time he spent with us.
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Miscellaneous; Political Humor/Cartoons; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: congress; garymiller
To: RUCKUS INC.
Cool......
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posted on
04/07/2004 3:34:15 PM PDT
by
cmsgop
(For Gosh Sake MCI, NO MORE JAMES TAYLOR !!!!!!!!!!!!)
To: RUCKUS INC.
He's a great guy. I spent a couple weeks working on his first Assembly campaign when we were working to recall former Assemblyman Paul Horcher.
To: All
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posted on
04/07/2004 3:36:08 PM PDT
by
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To: RUCKUS INC.
Not a vanity-freeper news
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posted on
04/07/2004 3:39:34 PM PDT
by
fooman
(Get real with Kim Jung Mentally Ill about proliferation)
To: RUCKUS INC.
If you are going to post a vanity, how about fleshing it out a bit. If it is important enough for a thread in news/activism perhaps you could tell us a little more, like where this is.
To: RUCKUS INC.
"Congressman Miller is an extremely funny man and he came to announce the passage of a new bill that makes it OK for Credit Unions to lend past their legal lending limit when lending to a religious institutions."
I'd like to know a bit more about this.
Just because an instituion is religious does not mean it is financially sound.
"Sorry Dad, your pension ain't worth squat, it seems the religious institution went broke."
Something here sounds very strange.
Is there someone here who can enlighten me?
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posted on
04/07/2004 4:02:14 PM PDT
by
auntdot
To: auntdot
Yeah... basically this has to do with the legal lending limit and not the religious institution. I work for a credit union that frequently does loans to churches (in the interest of full disclosure, that is about all that we do). So right now our legal lending limit is $7,000,000.00 per loan. Frequently we get churches that want to take out loans that are above and beyond this limit.
What we are then forced to do is loan them up to our legal lending limit and aquire the rest of the funds through a network of investors that participate in the loan with us. This new legislation just says that we can lend ALL of the money that we are comfortable lending.
It doesn't make a religious institution more or less credit worthy than they already were, it simply changes the way we can give them money.
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posted on
04/07/2004 4:38:28 PM PDT
by
RUCKUS INC.
("Bartender can I get another round of Daisy Cutters and MOABS for my boys in the turbans...")
To: Blue Screen of Death
Or... you could just read the Topic list where it says US:California and infer that the "where" is California. Perhaps you could flesh that out a little bit.
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posted on
04/07/2004 4:40:04 PM PDT
by
RUCKUS INC.
("Bartender can I get another round of Daisy Cutters and MOABS for my boys in the turbans...")
To: RUCKUS INC.
You posted the vanity, breath. It is up to you to supply some details that might be of interest. Jerk.
To: Blue Screen of Death
You clicked on it... based on the Title... so it was obviously of interest to you.
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posted on
04/08/2004 9:39:15 AM PDT
by
RUCKUS INC.
("Bartender can I get another round of Daisy Cutters and MOABS for my boys in the turbans...")
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