Nancy Pelosi: "We Get The Sacrifice, They Share The Wealth"

[Bill USA]

http://front.moveon.org/nancy-pelosi-we-get-the-sacrifice-they-share-the-wealth/

[Kalidurga]

1. Brilliant

That is all.

[liberal N proud]

2. Exactly the shared sacrifice they had in mind

[Bill USA]

9. here is a more complete quote:

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/07/we-get-the-sacrifice-they-get-the-wealth-a-fired-up-pelosi-tears-into-gop-deficit-plan.php

"The Speaker has said that between him and the president they have a different vision of America and that's how come their budget proposals are different," she sad. "Quite different...We get the sacrifice, they get the wealth."

[dkf]

3. Isn't Nancy Pelosi super rich?

Or am I imagining things?

[Wilms]

5. Funny you should ask.

Even funnier that she use the word "we".


Pelosi's wealth grows by 62 percent
By Kevin Bogardus - 06/15/11

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) saw her net worth rise 62 percent last year, cementing her status as one of the wealthiest members of Congress.

Pelosi was worth at least $35.2 million in the 2010 calendar year, according to a financial disclosure report released Wednesday. She reported a minimum of $43.4 million in assets and about $8.2 milion in liabilities.

For 2009, Pelosi reported a minimum net worth of $21.7 million.

http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/801-economy/166599-pelosis-net-worth-rises-62-percent-

[Bill USA]

8. she is for NOT Extending the bush tax cuts for those making over $250,000

[Wilms]

10. I didn't say she did. But her statement is patently upside down.

Had she said "They get the sacrifice, and we share the wealth, and that's not fair" it would have been plenty effective, honest, and insulated from ridicule whether from the right or left. She could have used her place as one of the nation's wealthiest to prod others in that category, rather than trying to come off as an outsider.

And that's my point.

[Bill USA]

11. so is Warren Buffett but like Pelosi he realizes that when too much of the tax burden is put on the

middle class everyone (includiing those with the money to invest) is worse off. The wealthy have a bigger piece of the pie but it's a smaller pie. If the middle class have more money to spend businesses sell more, make more money, grow and those with money to invest, if they pick the right companies, do better than they would have in the case of the middle class with too much of the tax burden resulting in less spending by that group (the largest segment of the population).

You see, being smart pays off better than being a sucker.

In the Bush administration Republicans got about everything they wanted, tax cuts going mostly to the wealthiest brackets and deregulation. The result was the worst decade for the economy in 7 decades, culminating in the TRICKLE DOWN - DEREGULATION DISASTER.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/01/AR2010010101196.html">Aughts were a lost decade for U.S. economy, workers

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The past decade was the worst for the U.S. economy in modern times, a sharp reversal from a long period of prosperity that is leading economists and policymakers to fundamentally rethink the underpinnings of the nation's growth.

It was, according to a wide range of data, a lost decade for American workers. The decade began in a moment of triumphalism -- there was a current of thought among economists in 1999 that recessions were a thing of the past. By the end, there were two, bookends to a debt-driven expansion that was neither robust nor sustainable.

There has been zero net job creation since December 1999. No previous decade going back to the 1940s had job growth of less than 20 percent. Economic output rose at its slowest rate of any decade since the 1930s as well.

Middle-income households made less in 2008, when adjusted for inflation, than they did in 1999 -- and the number is sure to have declined further during a difficult 2009. The Aughts were the first decade of falling median incomes since figures were first compiled in the 1960s.

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[DJ13]

4. Who's this "we" you're talking about Nancy?

Last I checked you arent exactly on the poor side.

[Larkspur]

6. Unlike Obama, at least Nancy doesn't want to sellout ordinary Americans on our

SS, Medicare and Medicaid benefits.

[Morizovich]

7. Blessed is the Name of Uhmerricuh!

:patriot:

[applegrove]

12. Is there video of that quote? Cause it could be used in an election.