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.
Well, she is right. $1000 is merely a crumb to elitists like her.
LOL Diana, I’m with you—may we all live long enough to see this dumb@ass old bat buried six feet under!!!
I’ll even put up with the week-long self flagellation by the Enemy Media when Carter, Jane Fonda, Slick Willie and/or, ‘She Who Shall Not Be Named’ shed their mortal coils!
Actually, the odds ARE in my favor to see them all; it’s a GREAT time to be alive! ;)
...Well, she is right. $1000 is merely a crumb to elitists like her...
Probably leaves this as a tip at her husband’s restaurants. Just chump change.
But, that can’t happen. Democrats only give away other people’s money.
They aren’t allowed to use insider information to trade stocks like you were Nutzy Pelosi. Anyone remember that, when it was found out she was stealing investors money through insider info? And when the public found out and became outraged - except for Democrap voters - they quickly passed the stock act.....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STOCK_Act
That’s obvious to you, me and all the rest of FReeperdom. But does anybody outside our circle see it that way?
What is absolutely remarkable is how FAST this transformation has happened. Reagan had to first slay the Carter malaise and staggering Carter inflation before he could right the ship. Trump had a somewhat stabilized and very tepidly “growing” economy to start with.
The power of a REAL Leader with an upbeat, positive, can-do, America is Great message is astounding. Obama hates America, sees it as fundamentally flawed, and wants her to fail.
I laughed out loud...and the several folks in the bus with me gave me dirty looks.
But then it *was* Boston!
“...I’d rather have $1000 than hand over $1000 to the “gimmee” people that the Dems support....”
Absolutely. She’s a total moron to the nth degree. The stupid is strong in this one. All that botox got to her brain years ago.
The RATs are in pure panic mode and will do anything they can to belittle and/or marginalize anything that might benefit the middle class of America by this administration. They are beyond redemption at this point.
It figures because she is used to siphoning millions of taxpayer dollars to her family owned business.
Tone deaf, Nancy?
Keep it up! Please!
Nancy said Trump wants to make America white again. She is clueless. Most future immigrants under a merit based system will be from non-white part of Asia.
Way to kind. She is a witch, working in league with a few demons.
Who did Nancy ever make rich, other than herself?
Received “crumbs” vs forced taxes to support illegal aliens. Wow.
“Most future immigrants under a merit based system will be from non-white part of Asia.”
Of course,but stupid Nancy assumed only whites would qualify if immigration was merit based—————and she calls Trump racist?
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All Democrats have done is raise taxes and stymie the economy. While promoting inflation. Never any financial improvement for lower and middle economic class Americans. Pelosi even wrote into a minimum wage bill an excerpt to allow her husband’s company to be able to pay less than minimum wage. What a hypocrite she is.
Nancy, thank you for acknowledging that the tax cut is insufficient. I look forward to your proposal for a more substantive tax cut for us malcontents out here. Pelosi for Speaker!
No?
Otherwise your “crumbs” comments are already being used in the development of this fall’s election commercials, and Trump will be verbally whipping you with your own words for months.
What a doddering old fool.
Well I got my first crumbs in todays paycheck. It was $51 higher. That ammounts to $102 a month. Those are sime big crumbs.
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