Quit Picking on the Republicans
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Chris Christie said he didn’t get any sun. Then, a newspaper showed him the beach photos
Island Beach State Park, where Christie and company lounged, is closed this week because of a government shutdown prompted by legislative gridlock in nearby Trenton. Christie ordered the shutdown on Friday after New Jersey lawmakers failed to pass a budget by midnight on Friday.
When he got to the Sunday afternoon news conference in Trenton, a reporter asked Christie whether he'd "got any sun."
The governor said he hadn't. Then, the Star-Ledger informed his staff they had the goods, prompting a hair-splitting response from his spokesperson.
"Yes, the governor was on the beach briefly today talking to his wife and family before heading into the office," Brian Murray, the governor's spokesman, told the Star-Ledger. "He did not get any sun. He had a baseball hat on."
The poor optics of Christie's seaside retreat haven't been lost on Star-Ledger readers.
https://t.co/0Nxd9tcxaH
Island Beach State Park, where Christie and company lounged, is closed this week because of a government shutdown prompted by legislative gridlock in nearby Trenton. Christie ordered the shutdown on Friday after New Jersey lawmakers failed to pass a budget by midnight on Friday.
When he got to the Sunday afternoon news conference in Trenton, a reporter asked Christie whether he'd "got any sun."
The governor said he hadn't. Then, the Star-Ledger informed his staff they had the goods, prompting a hair-splitting response from his spokesperson.
"Yes, the governor was on the beach briefly today talking to his wife and family before heading into the office," Brian Murray, the governor's spokesman, told the Star-Ledger. "He did not get any sun. He had a baseball hat on."
The poor optics of Christie's seaside retreat haven't been lost on Star-Ledger readers.
https://t.co/0Nxd9tcxaH
charity can be a trap for the giver and the receiver
Crockett on the Power to Make Charitable Donations
"Mr. Speaker -- I have as much respect for the memory of the deceased, and as much sympathy for the sufferings of the living, if suffering there be, as any man in this House, but we must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for a part of the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living.
I will not go into an argument to prove that Congress has no power to appropriate this money as an act of charity. Every member upon this floor knows it. We have the right, as individuals, to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right so to appropriate a dollar of the public money. Some eloquent appeals have been made to us upon the ground that it is a debt due the deceased. Mr. Speaker, the deceased lived long after the close of the war; he was in office to the day of his death, and I have never heard that the government was in arrears to him.
This government can owe no debts but for services rendered, and at a stipulated price. If it is a debt, how much is it? Has it been audited, and the amount due ascertained? If it is a debt, this is not the place to present it for payment, or to have its merits examined.
If it is a debt, we owe more than we can ever hope to pay, for we owe the widow of every soldier who fought in the War of 1812 precisely the same amount. There is a woman in my neighborhood, the widow of as gallant a man as ever shouldered a musket. He fell in battle. She is as good in every respect as this lady, and is as poor. She is earning her daily bread by her daily labor; but if I were to introduce a bill to appropriate five or ten thousand dollars for her benefit, I should be laughed at, and my bill would not get five votes in this House.
There are thousands of widows in the country just such as the one I have spoken of, but we never hear of any of these large debts to them. Sir, this is no debt. The government did not owe it to the deceased when he was alive; it could not contract it after he died. I do not wish to be rude, but I must be plain.
Every man in this House knows it is not a debt. We cannot, without the grossest corruption, appropriate this money as the payment of a debt. We have not the semblance of authority to appropriate it as a charity.
Mr. Speaker, I have said we have the right to give as much of our own money as we please. I am the poorest man on this floor. I cannot vote for this bill, but I will give one week's pay to the object, and if every member of Congress will do the same, it will amount to more than the bill asks"
Crockett on the Power to Make Charitable Donations
YOU are welcome to give all you want
you have ZERO right to expect others to
Crockett on the Power to Make Charitable Donations
"Mr. Speaker -- I have as much respect for the memory of the deceased, and as much sympathy for the sufferings of the living, if suffering there be, as any man in this House, but we must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for a part of the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living.
I will not go into an argument to prove that Congress has no power to appropriate this money as an act of charity. Every member upon this floor knows it. We have the right, as individuals, to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right so to appropriate a dollar of the public money. Some eloquent appeals have been made to us upon the ground that it is a debt due the deceased. Mr. Speaker, the deceased lived long after the close of the war; he was in office to the day of his death, and I have never heard that the government was in arrears to him.
This government can owe no debts but for services rendered, and at a stipulated price. If it is a debt, how much is it? Has it been audited, and the amount due ascertained? If it is a debt, this is not the place to present it for payment, or to have its merits examined.
If it is a debt, we owe more than we can ever hope to pay, for we owe the widow of every soldier who fought in the War of 1812 precisely the same amount. There is a woman in my neighborhood, the widow of as gallant a man as ever shouldered a musket. He fell in battle. She is as good in every respect as this lady, and is as poor. She is earning her daily bread by her daily labor; but if I were to introduce a bill to appropriate five or ten thousand dollars for her benefit, I should be laughed at, and my bill would not get five votes in this House.
There are thousands of widows in the country just such as the one I have spoken of, but we never hear of any of these large debts to them. Sir, this is no debt. The government did not owe it to the deceased when he was alive; it could not contract it after he died. I do not wish to be rude, but I must be plain.
Every man in this House knows it is not a debt. We cannot, without the grossest corruption, appropriate this money as the payment of a debt. We have not the semblance of authority to appropriate it as a charity.
Mr. Speaker, I have said we have the right to give as much of our own money as we please. I am the poorest man on this floor. I cannot vote for this bill, but I will give one week's pay to the object, and if every member of Congress will do the same, it will amount to more than the bill asks"
Crockett on the Power to Make Charitable Donations
YOU are welcome to give all you want
you have ZERO right to expect others to
Sorry Wally but that is beyond a stupid statement that has nothing to do with the post. Republicans are, by far, the most heartless bunch of phony Christians ever and your support of these Cretans is an indication of your heartless and phony Christianity.
All studies show that conservatives give much more to charity than all other groups combined.
Because most of that money is used up paying bureaucrats that administer the program.
Well he has written a book about and is lobbying for reinstatement of an extinct indian band . He wants to help them get on the land claims gravy train .
