Posted on 01/26/2018 6:56:21 PM PST by markomalley
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) once again referred to bonuses and wage increases, given out as a result of Republican tax cuts, as "crumbs" on Friday.
Pelosi tweeted a cartoon of an individual with "middle class" written on his back staring into a mouse trap with a morsel of food on the trip. Above the individual is an elephant in a suit saying, "We added a 2% increase to your crumb."
At the bottom of the cartoon in minuscule letters is the punch line of the joke: "We'll take it out of your retirement, which will be brief."
Along with the cartoon, Pelosi tweeted that she believes it is "obnoxious" that the Republican Party would think "workers should be weak-kneed with gratitude" because corporations are raising wages and giving out bonuses as a result of tax reform.
"Pretty obnoxious the GOP thinks workers should be weak-kneed with gratitude for corporations giving them pennies while pocketing a multi-billion dollar tax break stolen from the future of the middle class. #GOPTaxScam" Pelosi tweeted.
The cartoon seems to be the very same one that Pelosi alluded to Thursday in an appearance with Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D., Fla.) at a "Trump Tax" town hall in Boca Raton, Florida. The Pelosi's appearance sparked renewed criticism after she, describing the cartoon above, echoed comments similar to the ones she made earlier this month, directly comparing raised wages and bonuses to "crumbs."
At the event, Schultz also waded into the controversy by claiming that some of the $1,000 bonuses being given out as a result of tax cuts won't "go very far."
Pelosi and House Democrats have come under fire from Republicans over their comments attempting to dismiss the impact of tax reform. Republicans have called the comments out-of-touch, but mainstream news outlets have completely ignored them.
A study conducted by the Heritage Foundation found that tax reform's boost to gross domestic product would translate to a monetary increase of about $4,000 to $4,400 per household. Furthermore, a report released by the International Monetary Fund on Monday found that the GOP tax cuts would boost overall economic growth to 2.7 percent in 2018.
Thanks for the campaign ad Nan.
I’d rather have $1000 than hand over $1000 to the “gimmee” people that the Dems support.
The Focus Group told her this was a winner.
They lied.
Nanzi’s head is where the crumbs are. What an arrogant beyotch!
I’m retiring early.
Thank you, Mr. President.
Demonrats are running around in circles with their hands in the air screeching idiotic babble...so they want to campaign on raising taxes, taking back the crumbs and giving them to illegals who pour in the country with no borders?...they are truly mentally ill and getting worse every day....
It’s more than Obama offered blacks.
Tell me, Nan, how much of a bonus or pay raise would they have gotten under your tax cut plan? Oh, that’s right. You didn’t plan on having any tax cuts at all.
Pelosi has a net worth of over $50 million while folks in her district and state are living hand to mouth on the streets, huddled around 55-gallon drums for heat.
Yeah. This is nowhere near as good as the $2500 savings 0bamacare didn’t produce and nobody *ever* received. Indeed, this is even worse than the doubling or more of healthcare costs that *EVERYONE* got stuck with. This is nowhere near the miraculous, very generous ACA cost savings and having their healthcare world turned inside out.
You’re a blithering, senile piece of dirt, Nancy.
Pelosi continues to babble leaving anyone with half a brain wondering if she has one. Critical of Americans getting some benefit from a tax cut while, over the years, voting to increase taxes on those same Americans. Big government, big nanny-state Nancy.
She is listed over 100 milion.
Because Pelosi and her Democrat Thug Party would rather devour those crumbs.
I got my pay advice today for my 1/31 paycheck. $180 more for the month, or $2160 more for this year.
This hateful woman is a vile serpent.
Would S-O-M-E-O-N-E, please shut that PeloCommie UP!
Well, Nancy, you and your leftist coherts kept taking my money away from me more and more At least the R’s are giving some of it back. So you can make up any kind of criticism you want and the hard facts are still simple —the R’s are helping me and boosting jobs and the economy while you always did the exact opposite.
Here's something that I noticed. Obama campaigned on Hope and Change. Well, I keep seeing that consumer confidence is the highest it's been since the Millennium. Black unemployment is the lowest ever recorded. So who has really delivered hope to the working stiffs of this nation?
PLEASE let me live long enough to see this woman stroke out (on the House Floor!) so I can p*ss on her grave!
Why does EVIL have such a long shelf life? I’ll never understand it.
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