Posted on 01/20/2014 5:08:23 PM PST by Olog-hai
Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.), who is worth millions of dollars according to her congressional financial disclosure statement, says Congress needs to tackle income inequality because it “poses an existential threat to our nation and our way of life.” […]
According to her congressional financial disclosure statement for 2012, DeLauro is worth between $5 million and $25 million. …
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It’s not HER wealth that is the problem. It is the wealth of the EVIL capitalists!
The road to larger income gap and wealth ownership in this nation started with NAFTA, WTO, WFN. Allowing corporations to go overseas, invest in training of Chinese and Indian workers to do US manufacturing jobs and now IT jobs only allow the ones on top to pocket money while the rest of the American workers are dumped onto the US taxpayers as unemployment and food stamps. The refusal of the Fed Gov to enforce immigration laws and now talk of amnesty will add to US worker woes. We could have gotten away with this when the economy kept expanding with borrow and spend (corporate and gov) but the system imploded on September 2008. To make it worst the American voters voted twice for a far leftist President who created more gov entitlements and tax burden on the surviving businesses. Now we have more part time jobs and wage suppression. While we suffer big business gets bailed out with taxpayers money. Now our economy stands at the few in charge making more, the few American born techies having unique desired attributes get selected to work in bubble hi tech campuses (like Silicon Valley) while the rest of the college grads are not hired because a foreign H-1B worker took his place. Now corporate America wants more H-1B and amnesty for illegal immigrants and keep more immigration while the US economy is still in Recession (until the US gov changed the formula in calculating GDP to include research and art). This false Matrix Illusion will come to an end and big gov/big business types will end up fleeing the country or end up hung from street lamp posts for what they did to America. Dems and GOP need to learn, big gov and big business are the enemies of America. Problem is each party only identified half of the enemy and stuck running in place as the enemy they refuse to acknowledge betrays their goals from behind. Tea Party has exposed the Chamber of Commerce (Big Business) the traitor they are. Dems haven’t figure out that Big Gov is also undermining their chance for prosperity yet.
I’m with you, congresswoman! I’ll email you my address so you’ll know where to send part of your wealth.
I’d like to know how much their professional staffs are worth. They’re the ones who give the insider trading info to their bosses. Most of the congress folks are too damned dumb to know what a “trade” is.
Curious. How did she make her millions? Through marriage, or through “public service?”
Thanks Olog-hai. More meme-building by a limo-lib liar.
I’ll even let her make $15/hour.
Rosa DeLauro is an existential threat to mirrors everywhere.
Yet another multi-millionaire Hippie-hypocrite in congress spouting off about income equality and redistributing everyone else’s income, but not hers.
Fixing income inequality = Paying off debt through wealth confiscation.
I absolutely agree; drop every congresscritter, and their staff to minimum wage immediately. Strip them of all their benefits and paid holidays, and take away vacation time.
And where, you might ask did her money (est. $20 MM) come from?
Ms. De Lauro was born of Italian immigrants -- her dad and all her grandparents came over from the old country. Her father was an alderman, her mother ran a pastry shop.
She first won election to Congress in 1990. She is not known to be "wealthy".
She is married to Democrat pollster, Stanley Greenberg.
She is now estimated to be worth $20 MM, one of the fifty wealthiest members of Congress.
Purportedly, since De Lauro is generally unopposed for re-election (she has never won less than 63% of the vote), she donates her campaign contributions to the Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee. In turn, the DCCC commissions Greenberg's firm to conduct polls in her district. Her campaign funds are thus laundered and returned to the family treasury as "polling expense".
Interestingly, this is not viewed as contributing to "income inequality". Instead, it is apparently considered as "earned graft".
I believe George Harrison said it best: "There's one for you, nineteen for me..."
what the media including FOX doesn’t understand is that a HUGE PERCENTAGE of new millionaires are democrats from SUPER LEFT Hollywood/silicon Valley...there are a ton of people who were in lowest percentile 10 years ago, to simply say that top 10% are the same people year after year is total and complete bullshit
Perhaps, if income inequality is so terrible, we could do away with the crony capitalism that contributes so much to that inequality? Let’s have a free and fair market, where the wealthy have at least earned their wealth, rather than merely buying lucrative government favors through donations to insiders on both sides in our bloated government.
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