Dick Durbin slams the rich, Dave Ramsey fires back

It’s getting rough out there my little hostage takers. The name calling continues and the latest installment comes from Dick Durbin who invokes Dickens’ A Christmas Carol to take a shot at those evil rich people. Well last night on Cavuto, Dave Ramsey had just about enough … and the rest, as they say, is history. Enjoy.

The conversation centers around the extension of the tax rates for those making more than $200,000, better known as “The Deal.” Well Democrats hate “The Deal”, and while they may be forced to ultimately accept it, they continue to slam it. Exhibit A is Dick Durbin on the CBS Morning Show who decides to I guess liken the Republicans to Scrooge for stealing from little Tiny Tim’s table. Ramsey fires back as only he can, and he’s right of course. “He’s a thief.”

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2s3Xyx05DU

Of course Congress is full of more than thieves. It is full of greedy politicians who take your money to fund things that they can name after themselves. Case in point … the Omnibus Spending Bill.

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Jim Vicevich

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6 Comments

  1. Dimsdale on December 15, 2010 at 6:30 am

    Turban Durbin has a lot of gall when the Democrats have mortgaged Tiny Tim's crutches into his grandchildren's generation!

     

    Omnibus plunge bill…..?  😉



  2. Dimsdale on December 15, 2010 at 7:22 am

    The rich take risks with their own money, while Dems take no risks (to them) with other people's money.

     

    Thieves?  No, there is honor among thieves.  I suggest rapists, and, if things keep going downhill, necrophiliacs.



  3. winnie888 on December 16, 2010 at 12:58 am

    Oh, maaaaaaan….keys, anyone?  Anyone?  Someone drove the omnibus into a ditch.

     



  4. Law-AbidingCitizen on December 16, 2010 at 1:51 pm

    Spot on, Mr. Ramsey! We used to know what to do with thieves; now they just get elected to Congress and re-elected and re-elected and . . .

    Just a question for the thieving pole-cat Durbin, what would America do without rich people?

    Where would the money come from to buy stocks, bonds, venture capital, donate money to build new wings onto hospitals, etc.? Where would America be without those, those horrible, rich people? Poor people don't have disposable income to do those things. What if we are all poor, Mr. Durbin?

    Of course, Durbin wouldn't be one of those pitiful poor people, not him, not ever. There would be a loop-hole in the tax laws to let him and his ilk skate out of paying their 'fair share.' Even the term 'fair share' is a bit ridiculous and malodorous.

    My, my, Mr Durbin, punishing people just for having money? Even if they worked hard every day of their lives to make their American dream come true (and many others along the way, investors, employees, etc.) you'd still punish them? Or, even the ones who inherit money, win it playing the state sponsored lottery, receive a settlement for something? All of those 'types' of people, Mr. Durbin. All of them?

    What about all of the rich people who bought those obscenely over-priced tickets to fund your re-election campaigns (plural)? How do you rail against the "rich", tax their nasty, vile selves into the poorhouse and, then, walk into a fund-raising dinner full of those same rich people who you just vilified? Oh, my mistake, Mr. Durbin, they are Democrats.

    Only politicians can talk out of both sides of their mouths. And, convince the listener they are sincere.



  5. DuffTerrall on December 16, 2010 at 4:17 pm

    I'm not sure which copy of A Christmas Carol senator Durbin read, but it seems to me that Tiny Tim's "everyone" pretty much includes… ya know, everyone? As a matter of fact, it was Ebenezer Scrooge, that story's Donald Trump, who was the benefactor whose actions elicited the line to begin with.

    Founder of the feast indeed…



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