Posted on 03/03/2005 12:35:33 AM PST by Graybeard58
RUSH: We have Senator Kennedy here melting down on the floor of the Senate just moments ago. They are debating bankruptcy protection legislation, and this was Senator Kennedy a short time ago.
KENNEDY: (Screaming) Who do we represent in this body? The credit card companies who have had record profits? They are the principal beneficiary of this legislation: $30 billion in profits last year, and they want 35! The best estimates is [hiccup] credit card companies are going to get $5 billion more out of this bill. Who are we going to get it out of? That's what we are about here in the United States Senate, when we've got the problems of unemployment, the escalating cost of prescription drugs, school tuition's going up through the roof and we're talking about additional $5 billion for the most profitable industry in America. Hello? Hello? That's what we are debating here?
RUSH: Nope! (Laughing.) Nobody is listening to Senator Kennedy. Hello? Hello? Senator, let me turn it back around on you, sir. What is the most profitable industry in America? It isn't the credit card companies; it's not the oil companies; it's government, sir, United States federal government. Guess what, senator? We're going to spend $2.4 trillion that you didn't have a damn thing to do with producing. There's nothing but pure profit at the federal government. You take it from people: 2.4 trillion, and you claim that's not enough. You say you want 2.5. Where we gonna get it, senator? Who are we serving in this Senate? Who are we serving in this body? You want to take additional money from the back pockets of people and then turn around and tell those very people you're protecting their back pockets from the evil credit card companies. You're the biggest phony baloney, plastic banana, good-time rock-and-roller. I can talk faster than you can and make sense any day, senator! Hello...? Hello...?
Who are we listening to here? We're spending 24, what is it, billion dollars on education. What do you want, 26, senator? Where's it going to come from? It's going to come from the back pockets of people you claim you're protecting from the eeeeevil credit card companies! Hello? Hello? Why do we never hear this, senator? Why do we never hear how you can go out and literally steal from people with your so-called tax increases, but less a legitimate American industry earn some money on a profit, "Oh, no! It's a problem! Profit? We can't have that," and I'll tell you something else, senator, and I said this, I felt this when I was walking around the Fourteenth Century streets of Afghanistan last week and I said it to people: Next time I hear a Democrat complaining about unemployment or the escalating cost of prescription drugs, school tuition, I'm going to say, "Go to Afghanistan." You want to find out what tough is? You want to find out what poverty is? You want to find out what tough economic circumstances are? Because we in America do not have the slightest idea what tough economic circumstances are. Now, I know everything is relative, and I know we have much higher expectations than people who live in places like Afghanistan, but it's about time we had a little sense of appreciation for what we have here, rather than listening to a bunch of aged, Jurassic Park senators telling us how rotten it always is in this country. Because, frankly, senator, I'm fed up with hearing about how we can't do this and this can't be done and we've got it so bad and everybody is suffering out there.
You talk about the escalating cost of prescription drugs and so forth. We're talking about senior citizens, are we not? We are trying to reform Social Security. You say nothing's wrong with Social Security, and yet months ago you're talking about how Social Security recipients are having to make choices between dog food and drugs because they don't have enough in their benefits. You people are making no sense whatsoever, and it's a new day, senator! Because you don't get your commence of idiocy amplified by a sycophantic mainstream media anymore. You've got people who are contradicting what you're saying, hearing what you're saying, and putting truth to it. What did Senator Kerry say, "Speak truth to power"? Hello...? Hello...? Hello...? Anybody there? Senator Kennedy speaking! (Clearing throat.)
And finally, my friends, before we go to our bottom-of-the-hour break, a story from India. "From constipation to cancer..." and this of course the natural flow from a Senator Kennedy sound bite. (story) "From constipation to cancer, diarrhea to diabetes, they offer to cure nearly everything with medicines made from cow urine. India's Hindu nationalists who were ousted from power last May, have a new job: promoting cow products, primarily urine, that many Indians believe have therapeutic value. S. P. Sharma, a PJP official," That's a party official in India, "said he offered to buy a pack of face cream he said helped his daughter get rid of pimples. Face cream made of cow urine."
Now, yesterday we had a story about how cows do... What is it? Hold a grudge, yeah, the complex minds. They're very close to human beings and all this. They look on in "hope and fear" when other cows fall through frozen ponds and so forth. What do the cows think, Senator Kennedy, of using their urine, sir? Here are people profiting from cow urine, and they're in India, senator! Hello? Hello...? When are we going to get this in America, senator, cow urine face cream for pimples. What are you doing, senator, for the people? Hello? Hello?
Okay Teddy, let's make the principal amount only bankrupt proof. You know, the amount that the debtor actually received in cash, goods or services.
I am nearly willing to call 28% interest a hardship. That high of a rate makes debts difficult to repay, and is sufficient reason by itself for many to declare bankruptcy.
And yet this may sound bizarre, but history indicates that outrageous interest rates don't directly correlate with higher bank profits. A well-established bank that makes a good profit on 6% mortgages, 8% auto loans, and 10% credit cards will often find that they can't survive in markets where their only competition is a fly-by-night used car dealership or furniture store that charges 30% on their loans.
I've been in a tough, overwhelming financial situation myself before, so if you'd like to Freepmail me with some general information about your situation I might be able to offer some wisdom.
"I am nearly willing to call 28% interest a hardship. That high of a rate makes debts difficult to repay, and is sufficient reason by itself for many to declare bankruptcy."
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I wish the "New Posts" feature had a Barf Alert.
Nice photoshop.
What's sKerry holding in his hand (the guy in the back seat, at least it looks like sKerry).
I'm not going to download the pix and zoom in, I've just eaten din-din and I might chuck it up.
I'll have to dig up my pix of the current day Chappy bridge (they've added little side rails).
I had a S-eating grin on my face the whole time (knowing I was a lurker in the heart of liberal land), and when I'd finished snapping, was walking back to the car, a couple of dowdy woman asked me "Is this the bridge?".
I lost it.
p.s.
The least you could have done was put one of those big black "censored" stripes across the "bloated one's" torso, it's really obscene.
Sorry to upset your tummy, LOL:) Kerry is holding those famous ears of corn. I bet it is all perfectly clear now. Enjoy
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