Listening to Rep. Anthony Weiner’s rant, you would think the evil Republicans are trying to block 9/11 responders from receiving funding for illnesses related to the cleanup and recovery effort. Nothing could be farther from the truth. The Democrats refused to allow an amendment that would block illegal immigrants from receiving funds.
Anthony Weiner is a sorry excuse of a representative, and a human being, for that matter.
No Sheeples Here and Maggie’s Notebook have more thorough explanations.
Tags: 9/11, Anthony Weiner, bill, Democrats, funding, illegal immigrants, illness, Peter King, World Trade Center
Weiner was like a petulant child, stomping his feet and screaming to get his way through fits, hoping someone would relent. He’s an embarrassment to his constituents to say the least. The legislative chicanery that D.C. thrives on is sickening to Americans that once were mostly unaware of such before high speed communications and alternative media.
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I didn’t get the straight and skinny on this until I listened to Mark Levin later in the day.
The prog channel I listen to touted Weiner as a hero. WTF?
Yes RINOs are bad but the Repubs on wholee aren’t snakes like the Dems are.
Watch Rangel and Waters get of the hook or only receive a slap in the wrist.
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I was a First Responder at the World Trade Center on September 11th and in the aftermath of that attack. I also attended the funeral of Detective James Zadgroda, the namesake of this legislation.
My career ended at the Trade Center. I have been ill for nearly a decade. Many of the medications I use, and the care I receive, are financed in part from grants that this bill would extend. In my case, those costs translate to about $7,000 a year for my family.
From the outset, I had little confidence that this bill would ever become law. Why?
Rich people in this country do not want to pay for this, or any other addition to the entitlement burden – that sum is projected to reach $136 trillion over the next thirty years or so, depending on which apocalyptic economist you embrace. Many middle class Americans share this view, and they should: our income tax brackets are so close that the middle class pay similar rates (and endure much more financial pain) as do the wealthy.
But when I use the term, “rich,” I am referring to those Americans who have attained such financial stature as to (a) control the marketplace and (b) control the political infrastructure that supports it.
These folks are kingmakers in Washington politics, both Republican and Democrat, and their handiwork could not be more evident in the dissolution of the Zadgroda Bill. The Weiner rant witnessed in the House would appear to be a passionate outcry based on some fundamental principle of profound merit, hidden behind the legislative procedures he complained about – liberal spending versus conservative values, Democrats castigating Republicans for heartless cost cutting. The contrived issue, instead, was the notion that undocumented aliens somehow managed to participate in rescue operations at Ground Zero – a zone even those with press credentials could not enter, if you will recall. If certain illegal immigrants were affected, one would think that a solution would not overwhelm the greater good of helping thousands of deserving rescuers.
At work here is a purposed distraction from the truth – that this defeat was a carefully crafted stage show, formulated by wealth, Democrat and Republican, against labor. I state plainly that the influential instructed leadership in both parties to find a way to kill this legislation, while allowing an apoplectic confrontation, tailor made for local constituencies and the national audience, scoring political points on both sides of the isle. It is easy to vote for a bill you know will not pass, and vote no to healthcare for illegals, then argue about it until the real issue fades away, along with the Rescue Worker population. (If you doubt my assertions, pick up Sunday’s New York Times. Nothing is written about this, anywhere in that paper.)
Thus, Congressman Weiner doth protest too much…
That the targets of this farce were First Responders during the deadliest attack on American soil since Pearl Harbor makes the entire matter particularly distasteful and more specifically, treasonous.
The end game is as follows: Congress recesses with political momentum that may help their failing confidence numbers, First Responders continue to get sick and die, the Zadgroda legislation is buried and taxpayers (especially those who could afford to pay a little more) get a pass.
We have been trained to believe that it is moral turpitude to ask affluent Americans to pay more in taxes these days. On September 11th, I did not have the opportunity to discuss that point with my rich Wall Street countrymen: they were busy running their asses off in the opposite direction, away from the Towers.
These were the heroes who invented, then wildly profited from, structured investment vehicles and unsustainable derivatives, those benchmarks of corporate greed, requiring a bailout one hundredfold the cost of the Zadgroda Bill. That action passed Congress swiftly, by the way.
I am told that my lifespan will be shortened by my wounds. Rest assured, however, that I sleep well at night, knowing that I performed my duties honestly and I continue to love my country, and will serve her to the last, despite the fact that over the past fifty years she has devolved into an oligarchy. Her citizens have become distracted and misinformed – but not forever.
I will leave this life confident that all of the people can not be fooled all of the time; that the next generation will set this nation aright: a just tax code, sane monetary policy and fair (albeit modest) entitlements for those who chose to serve others, rather than themselves. Only then will the America head straight on that long, arduous road to financial solvency.
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