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Barney Frank: 'No Tax Cut Would Have Helped Us Deal With This'
Weekly Standard ^
| 04/16/2013
| By DANIEL HALPER
Posted on 04/16/2013 7:37:21 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
"I'm glad you raised that, because it gives me a chance to make a point I've felt strongly about," said Frank. "In this terrible situation, let's be very grateful that we had a well-funded, functioning government. It is very fashionable in America, and has been for some time to criticize government, belittle public employees, talk about their pensions, talk about what people think ... of [their] health care. Here we saw government in two ways perform very well. ... I never was as a member of Congress one of the cheerleaders for less government, lower taxes. No tax cut would have helped us deal with this or will help us recover. This is very expensive."
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To: Responsibility2nd
I just have one question.
How did Barney Frank get so rich, working as a public servant?
And we are supposed to each ‘chip in more’ individually.
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posted on
04/16/2013 7:54:24 AM PDT
by
Sir Napsalot
(Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
To: Responsibility2nd
He should shut up and crawl back into his hole.
Hey Fwank:
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posted on
04/16/2013 7:56:20 AM PDT
by
b4its2late
(A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
To: Responsibility2nd
Hey, Frankie boy, leave the thinking to those of us with brains and go back to doing what you do best: speaaking in a wierd manner and bending over for your friends.
What a piece of excrement.
To: Responsibility2nd
gun bans wouldn’t have helped either, but that won’t stop barney and his idiot friends(republican and democrat) from pushing them.
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posted on
04/16/2013 7:57:38 AM PDT
by
Cubs Fan
(If the republican party wants to be the democrat lite party then they don't need my vote)
To: Responsibility2nd
That would be the Government that’s well funded enough to start a fight with the Governor of Arizona over her enforcing Federal Immigration Laws that Bawny’s buddies won’t enforce.
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posted on
04/16/2013 7:59:20 AM PDT
by
To-Whose-Benefit?
(It is Error alone which needs the support of Government. The Truth can stand by itself.)
To: Responsibility2nd
Damn fool. America's strength is not government but the people. These communists Democrats have weakened the very fiber of America with taxes and regulations. It is this kind of as@ hole that hasn't the intelligence of a rat nested government we have now. America is in real trouble and we have to listen to this fag.
To: ZULU
You do that a little too well ZULU. lol
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posted on
04/16/2013 8:07:48 AM PDT
by
V_TWIN
(obama=where there's smoke, there's mirrors)
To: Responsibility2nd
Sadly, citizens of MASS vote for clowns like Barney Frank, then expect him to handle real-world issues like national security.
The result is, he bops his boyfriend and gives a lisping speech while moslems detonate bombs.
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posted on
04/16/2013 8:08:58 AM PDT
by
LyinLibs
(If victims of islam were more "islamophobic," maybe they'd still be alive.)
To: Responsibility2nd
So says the corrupt faggot who shielded Fannie from investigation and was rewarded with a young piece of male ass.
To: Responsibility2nd
"In this terrible situation, let's be very grateful that we had a well-funded, functioning government. It is very fashionable in America, and has been for some time to criticize government, belittle public employees, talk about their pensions, talk about what people think ... of [their] health care. In other words, this tragedy shows that we should not debate about whether there are too many government employees or whether some of their benefits are too lavish.
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posted on
04/16/2013 8:13:19 AM PDT
by
Opinionated Blowhard
("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
To: Responsibility2nd
I’m amazed after Fannie & Freddie anyone gives a flip what Franks thinks
To: Responsibility2nd
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posted on
04/16/2013 8:16:30 AM PDT
by
PLD
To: Iron Munro
Barney “Bitch Tits” Frank.
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posted on
04/16/2013 8:19:42 AM PDT
by
RedMonqey
("Gun-free zones" equal "Target-rich environment.")
To: South Dakota
We have got to stop electing idiots. Or, have we become the idiots and the elected are the bright ones?
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posted on
04/16/2013 8:50:26 AM PDT
by
Parmy
To: Responsibility2nd
Wasn’t he recently treated for an impacted gerbil?
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posted on
04/16/2013 8:59:41 AM PDT
by
Farmer Dean
(stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
To: IbJensen
...
and your gang of sycophants are attempting a second act Frank and Dodd knew that that a collapse would happen in 2008. That is why they deliberately did nothing as chairmen of their respective committees. The plan was to blame it all on Bush. It worked. They retired.
If you tell me they are planning another round of crash and blame, well I believe it.
To: South Dakota
Sounds like he’s just opened the door to the theory that Democrats upset about the sequester could be responsible.
To: gov_bean_ counter
not with advanced syphilis
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posted on
04/16/2013 9:18:36 AM PDT
by
Rumplemeyer
(The GOP should stand its ground - and fix Bayonets)
To: gov_bean_ counter
STDs can do very bad things to your brain - Bawney shows all the signs.
To: Responsibility2nd
But a “president” who spent a little time in the oval office with his sleeves rolled up once in a while might.
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