On YOUR Dime: Congressmen Lease Luxury Cars
Little-Known But Exploited Loophole Allows Politicians To Drive, Maintain Expensive Cars, SUVs On Taxpayer Money..
Rep. Charles Rangel: ‘My Constituents Appreciate It’
Pablo Guzman Reporting NEW YORK (CBS) ― You may not realize it, but members of the House of Representatives can lease a car and have it paid for by you — the taxpayer. And it’s not just the car, but gas, registration, insurance … the works.
And as CBS 2 HD found out, there’s no limit on how much they can spend.
Congressman Charles Rangel was recently seen getting out of his Cadillac DeVille, which he leases for $774 per month. Then there was Congressman Jose Serrano, getting out of his Buick LaCrosse, which he leases for $317 per month. And how about this one: Congressman Gregory Meeks was recently seen waiting for Congressman John Conyers to step out of Meeks’ Lexus LS460, which Meeks leases for $998 per month.
All those leases are picked up by taxpayers through a little-known program available only to members of the House of Representatives.
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So Democrat Congressman Charlie Rangel thinks his constituents “appreciate” his wasting our money on a luxury gas guzzler on our dime? What constituents was he talking to when he figured that out? The guy who sold him the Cadillac we paid for, or the owner of Gas station he goes to?
I mean give me a break. You can call these other people Hypocrites if you want & that may be true, but at least they are Hypocrites with THEIR OWN MONEY!
The there’s “do as I say, not as I do” Eco-Hypocrisy of Barack Hussein Obama & his big ol’ Chrysler 300, which he quickly dumped for a token hybrid once he got caught by the media with it.
Why are not more people enraged by this disgusting & atrocious Government abuse, while the tax payers are footing the bill?
It’s really crazy, all of it. I’m struggling to keep my 6 cylinder SUV on the road, while Charlie Rangel & his party tells me not to drive one because they’re “bad for the environment.”
One of the foremost experts on hurricane forecasting says he may soon lose funding due to his open skepticism about man-made global warming, according to a report in the Houston Chronicle.
Dr. William Gray, who once said that pro-global warming scientists are “brainwashing our children,” says that Colorado State University will no longer promote his yearly North Atlantic hurricane forecasts due to his views on “Global Warming.”
Gray sent a memo to the head of Colorado State’s Department of Atmospheric Sciences that reportedly read:”this is obviously a flimsy excuse and seems to me to be a cover for the Department’s capitulation to the desires of some (in their own interest) who want to reign in my global warming and global warming-hurricane criticisms,” the Houston Chronicle reports.
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Interesting that the Science community is using the same exact techniques to harass Professor Gray, that Ben Stein describes in his movie “Expelled”. Expelled is a movie that reveals how the science community ostracizes any individual in academia who will not blindly go along with their big Darwinist, anti-intelligent design cult.
This was their excuse at a prestigious University? School officials denied that Gray’s stand on global warming was an issue, and said that they are cutting back on media support for his forecasts due to the strain it places on the school’s lone media staffer.
So you’re telling me that they can’t afford another media staffer to make sure the work of a world renowned climatologist gets published? Ya right… Come on people! Be real, Ok?
Please take the time to write the staff & especially the administrative staff of the University to tell them what your thoughts are on silencing the views of others in a free society. The atmospheric dept contacts can be found here.
Please be courteous in your correspondence. Who knows, maybe at some point these scientists will listen to reason, whereas “reason” is something they have a personal stake in preserving. Political ideologies change & fade like paint, but reasoning will always be there for us, if we listen for it.
Kudos to Larry King for breaking ranks with the rest of the liberal media, & asking Democratic Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi some tough questions on gas prices.
From her responses, including the current average price of gasoline, clearly she has a complete disconnect from the financial realities faced by those of us who do not have a personal government chauffeur. When responding to Larry King’s question on why the Democrats haven’t fulfilled their promise to “fix” gas prices, first she replies with the Democrat standard issue “It’s Bush’s fault” mantra, then she naively states that the current average price of gas is $2.56. King then corrects her saying “No, I think it’s $3.50 a gallon they’re saying now.” (Apparently King doesn’t buy his own gasoline either, or it’s inconsequential to him as well because of his high income; oo, like Nancy Pelosi he relies on others to tell him how much it is now.)
She goes on to reply “So it went down six cents.” Hmmm.. How did she get from $2.56, to Kings’ correcting her with his statement of $3.50 per gallon & then come out with “So it went down six cents….” ? Seems to me that the price went up from the figure she believed was right.. I mean as usual, she didn’t acknowledge the correction, so we have to go by her original quote. Because she (in her usual elitist & arrogant way) gave no explanation for being so far off, we can only assume that she really has no clue what’s going on.
It appears that the current leader of the United States Senate is both “mathematically challenged” (we’re talking about a Democrat here, so I have to be politically correct right?), & she has no clue what the American people are facing in the real world. You know, the world she DOESN’T live in?
All true.. Here it is in living color.. See for yourself:
As it turns out, I decided to do a little research into Ethanol, & it’s potential to cause damage to your engine, as well as the politics behind it’s use. As usual, I found that Money was the root of this Corn stock turned evil, engine eating, Go Green cash cow.
This is probably a good time to mention that in the 2006 election cycle, the Political Action Comittee for Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), the nation’s top ethanol maker, gave $120,000 to federal candidates while fellow agribusiness giant Cargill, No. 2 in ethanol, gave $223,000 to House and Senate candidates.
Fuel distributors are supposed to use only up to 10% Ethanol in their Gas blends that they deliver to the gas stations, (federal standard) because any more than that is known to damage engines & components exponentially as the mixture ration increases. As it turns out however, there’s nobody to regulate this, & the fuel distributors make more money if the water down the gas blend with more of the cheaper than petroleum Ethanol.
The result is that you pay the same $$$ for poor quality fuel that begins to burn badly when it has too much ethanol, & the distributors are getting rich as your engine’s pistons, valves & other components are getting pits burned into the top of them,or corrosive damage. Don’t believe it? Have a looky here at THIS LINK to a class action lawsuit against Exxon & Chevron.
I was at one time a fully certified technician in the auto industry. I can personally attest to the fact that both of my vehicles were NOT pinging & having detonation issues (or pinging) until the Ethanol stickers started showing up on the pumps. All other mechanical possibilities & reasons for my experience with pinging have been eliminated, which points to, YOU GUESSED IT! BAD FUEL loaded with Ethanol!
In the mid 90’s when ethanol started trickling into gas blends, 1980’s era Nissan’s had to be recalled for deteriorated injector O-Ring seals & hoses that caused fuel leakage. The cause was kept pretty quiet by both Nissan & the fuel industry, but as an insider at the time, I was told that the new ethanol fuel blends failed to consider the composition of some of the rubber seals & hoses that had been installed in recent years on fuel systems. As a result, the new fuel blend disintegrated them, & gas was eventually spraying or seeping around under the hood of some of those vehicles.
Now in fairness, for automobiles the rubber hazard has been mostly taken care of, but ethanol runs REALLY hot, & too much alcohol in fuel will burn the tops of ANY piston installed in conventional non racing engines like the ones we all have in our family cars/trucks. The overheated combustion then becomes uncontrolled explosion & heat, which is where the ping sound comes from. So when these Gas distributors get greedy, we are paying the price, TWICE. It’s typical of the Federal Government to jump on some politically expedient bandwagon in order appease environmentalist groups, while passing on the vote buying costs to consumers & taxpayers, & getting lobbyist money from oh i don’t know, CORN & Ethanol lobbyists??!
As usual we’re being fleeced like good little sheeple, by politicians & lobbyists.
Here’s what I recommend people.. Want to know the truth about what this is doing to both your car, & gas prices? Order a testing kit here, & read all the great consumer info at this website: http://www.fuel-testers.com
I ordered one myself, & I will be bringing you the results of my tests “Including Video”, in the near future. In the meantime, look for stations that don’t use Ethanol blending. In Tennessee, I found a few corporately owned Exxon stations who do not. That is where I buy my fuel. Now is the time to push back against this extension of a Global Warming scam, & demand quality fuel that won’t damage your already depreciating investment/asset, for a reasonable price. This is one evil Genie that we CAN stuff back into the bottle if we work together.
Gas prices hi $3.53 per Gallon today for regular gas. More on that later, but first!
Today top physicist Phil Chapman, the first native-born Australian to become an astronaut with NASA, said that the earth cooled quickly between January last year and January this year, by about 0.7 degrees Centigrade.
“This is the fastest temperature change in the instrumental record, and it puts us back to where we were in 1930,” Chapman wrote in The Australian Wednesday. “If the temperature does not soon recover, we will have to conclude that global warming is over.”
And finally, Last but certainly not least. It has been revealed by ABC News that Al Gore used fake, computer generated footage of “Majestic Ice Shelves”, & then compared those digitally touched wonders to random instances of melting ice in order to frighten people. If you’ve been unfortunate enough to sit through the movie, you know this is all true..
I say that it’s a bloody Gore-y day for Gore’s cash cow of global warming, but because up until recently his scam has been effective, the real victims have been the American people paying higher prices for fuel & maintenance, (in part) because of Ethanol fuel blend requirements. Have you noticed those little stickers on the pumps notifying you that the pump contains up to 10 or even 20% Ethanol? The dirty little secret is that Ethanol causes problems in many engines. Notice the increase in engine pinging? Well engine pining can damage an engine, because it represents uncontrolled combustion, & causes much higher combustion temperatures, thus putting more strain on your engine’s pistons, cylinder walls, valves & the motor oil that protects them.
Red Flag of the day! Airplanes (all aircraft) are banned and exempt from using ethanol blend and all alcohol fuels.
Hmm.. Doesn’t take a genius to know that there’s a difference involving SAFETY if they won’t let you run it in an airplane engine, now does it? It’s much harder to sue companies as a middle income individual if your car engine seizes over it, but if small charter planes that use it start dropping out of the sky, a lot of people will look bad, & companies with lawyers will sue over the inferior fuel quality. The FAA would be one of those agencies that would be embarrassed, thus the ethanol ban in planes. So that means they’ve heaped the costs of Going Green on the people they know are least likely to have the power, resources & information to fight back. The average gasoline consumer.
So as well as costing consumers in highly visible ways, Going Green is costing people in engine problems they don’t even realize are happening. It would take a pretty weighty scientific investigation to prove that your car’s engine was damaged by Ethanol fuel, & that’s what Environmentalist, Politicians, & Oil Refineries are counting on in my opinion.
The Bottom line? All this “Going Green” is hurting the middle class the most. When you’ve made upwards of 200 million dollars off of it like Al Gore has, then getting a new engine for your truck isn’t a big deal. That’s not so for the majority of US citizens though, now is it? It’s time to stop listening to the greenbats, & start drilling for oil in ANWAR. If we do, I guarantee you that oil prices will drop, & that the Caribou gods will not rain fire down on our heads..
The Democrats have a real problem here with the American people. If they are to be able to make good on their promise to lower Gas prices, they’ll need to get people like Gore to back off of the Green rhetoric. That puts them in a real pickle, as usual.
They said the following about Gas prices to get control of Congress, & almost two years later the Gas prices have only gotten worse. Check out their empty promises on the video below:
