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.”
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:
