The video the Wisconsin GOP doesn't want you to see! - *gasp*
This complete video, once on YouTube and then on the Talking Points Memo website, has been yanked from both, simply because of the heat a rookie republican congressman (and former reality tv star) got for daring to mention he's having trouble getting by on "only" $174,000, partly due to higher health care costs because of worse federal coverage than he was used to from Wisconsin as a District Attorney.
Evan McMorris-Santoro at TPM details the farce controversy.
GOPers Demand Sean Duffy Salary Tape Be Pulled From The Internet
First the Republican Party in Polk County, Wisconsin, pulled the tape of Rep. Sean Duffy (R-WI) fretting about making ends meet on his $174,000 a year salary from its own website. Now they want it gone from the whole Internet.
For a couple hours, the local county GOP was successful. But we've put an excerpt of the video back up.
A day after TPM posted the video we obtained of Duffy talking about his salary at a Polk County town hall meeting earlier this year, the Polk County GOP contacted the video provider we used to host the video, Blip.tv, and demanded the video be taken down.
The tape caused a stir for Duffy, a first-term conservative best known for his past as a reality TV show star on MTV's The Real World. Democrats flagged the comments about his taxpayer-funded salary (which is nearly three times the median income in Wisconsin) and criticisms began to flow Duffy's way.
In the clip, Duffy is asked whether he'd support cutting his own salary. Duffy says he would, but only as part of a plan where all public employees' salaries would be cut. He then said that the $174,000 in salary (not including benefits) he receives is a squeeze for his family of seven to live on:
I can guarantee you, or most of you, I guarantee that I have more debt than all of you. With 6 kids, I still pay off my student loans. I still pay my mortgage. I drive a used minivan. If you think I'm living high on the hog, I've got one paycheck. So I struggle to meet my bills right now. Would it be easier for me if I get more paychecks? Maybe, but at this point I'm not living high on the hog.
No doubt Crooks and Liars will receive a similarly sternly worded cease-and-desist letter, and the clip will be pulled from here also. But for now, here is the clip the Wisconsin GOP are so scared of being seen. (Can this story get any more pathetic?)
How can they force anyone to take this down? He's a public official speaking at a public event in his capacity as a public official. I don't see where they have any grounds to threaten anyone for posting this. Who filmed it?
Do not cave in and pull this video. I
It does say copyrighted by the GOP.
Men are basically smart or dumb and lazy or ambitious. The dumb and ambitious ones are dangerous and I get rid of them. The dumb and lazy ones I give mundane duties. The smart ambitious ones I put on my staff. The smart and lazy ones I make my commanders.
"fair use" exception, for educational, news and personal use. i'd check with your legal counsel, before pulling this, in the event of sternly worded letter from the GOP.
As NPR demonstrated, when challenged, apparently anyone other than the GOP is not supposed to check with counsel, hesitate, or stand their ground in any way. Hence this video being scrubbed the second anyone makes a fuss.
Its time for us to stop running from these thugs and stand up for the truth.
I can make a video and put "Copyrighted By: The American Uterus" .. doesn't make it absolutely true. If it's for personal, educational, or journalism use, it can be used. I'd like to see the actual copyright papers. It takes MONTHS to copyright anything.. and this video is what, a week old? If that?
ProgressiveMuckracker is talking about a registered copyright, and that does take some time. However, this is not required to copyright something. The article on copyright from Wikipedia sums this up nicely:
"Once an idea has been reduced to tangible form, for example by securing it in a fixed medium (such as a drawing, sheet music, photograph, a videotape, or a computer file), the copyright holder, or rightsholder, is entitled to enforce his or her exclusive rights. However, while registration isn't needed to exercise copyright, in jurisdictions where the laws provide for registration, it serves as prima facie evidence of a valid copyright."
The registered copyright gives you much more weight in a court case if the dispute goes that far, but it's not necessary.
They're the new 'brownshirts'. "Take it down now. Shnell! shnell!!!!"
Wow. That is weird. I had no idea you could copyright a public speech by a someone acting in their capacity as a public official. Then again, not much surprises me in this country anymore.
I like how it took most of the video for this turd to even get around to answering the guys question.
Cry me a river ! If you can't afford the big family try keeping your pecker in your pants or maybe even birth control you dumb ass !
Insanity , it is what it is , there is no understanding it .
that 'illigal hispanic muslim ' birth rate.....white kids are better,aren't they?
....the fools do not realize,a population that can ,..... not paticipate .............in the 'economy'...,can not keep it viable!..........."we are listening,.......and we're not blind.,......this is your life....this is your time."
The reason my grandparents had 16 Irish-Quebecoise Catholic kids was a concerted effort to save a pagan baby.
; )
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
Speaking as a pagan...
That really kind sucks...
*grin*
In the marketplace of ideas, too many people shop in the bargain basement.
-- Thunder BlueRose
Why, yes, I am a card-carrying member of the ACLU
http://saxman.bravepages.com
Had it worked out, Notre Dame would be winning football and basketball championships every year.
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
Always got a kick out of the starting line of the "Fighting Irish" having names ending in "ski" and "cyk" back when I was a kid...
In the marketplace of ideas, too many people shop in the bargain basement.
-- Thunder BlueRose
Why, yes, I am a card-carrying member of the ACLU
http://saxman.bravepages.com
I always got a kick out the academic majors - most schools the major was "Radio and TV Communications" or "Physical Education" for Notre Dame and University of Michigan it was "Pre-Law or Pre-Med"
got her a mayor job of a village in the middle of nowhere, then half a governor job she quit from.
to walk a mile in his shoes.
Do you have any idea how tough it is to keep a good cabana boy?
Or a chauffeur?
I mean, a legal one!
He's a US Congressman now, so he can't just go around hiring any Tommas, Dickito, or Harrio!
He hardly gets any vacation at all. Congress is in session for 32 weeks so what does that leave? 20 weeks - next to nothin!
Ship those ingrate rugrats to Missouri and make 'em earn their keep!
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
boners got one week on,one week off......closer to 26 weeks of 'work'
....the fools do not realize,a population that can ,..... not paticipate .............in the 'economy'...,can not keep it viable!..........."we are listening,.......and we're not blind.,......this is your life....this is your time."
and only work until Thursday.
Where can I get a job like that? In fact, where can I get a job?
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
$282,000 a year. Why that smug, insulated bastard. F him. Like "hey, I don't control the salary." yeah, like it was a big surprise to you when you won and found out what it was.
And when that pay raise rider comes through on the next bill? You betcha it's getting a 'yea'.
they don't vote on pay raises any more. It just happens automatically. You have to opt out if you don't want the raise.
Isn't there some way we can edit this to make this guy look like a complete dickhead?
oh, wait, we don't need to edit to fit the narrative that conservatives are frauds.
But, maybe we could edit this video to make the guy seem right at first. Then after about a week, bust the person that made this guy look like a hero?
Just an idea
We'll leave the fraud and "creative editing" to O'Keefe and his crowd.
Congressman Duffy, as a straight married male is privileged. He gets to file jointly with his wife. He gets to count each of his kids as deductions and he probably gets several credits for them. Not to mention that as a member of congress, he gets the "public option" that the rest of us don't. It is not our fault that he ran up debt, but if he can't live on $174,000 of tax payer monies, then maybe he should resign and work in the private sector again.
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When called out on Congressional salaries...That's a vague response. Does he mean that he wants to cut those salaries to a pitiable $165,000 per year? Or did he simply dodge the question with a purposefully vague answer?
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
..he's willing to cut his staff's salary in order to preserve his own.
Poor guy, I would have never known things were so tough for him and his family.
Maybe we should take up a collection - pass around the hat and raise some much needed cash.
See making do with $174k (plus expenses) is not even middle class. . .
I still think the problem - money wise is the over paid teachers and public employees.
If we could just get teachers and other public employees to work for minimum wage we could pay our politicians more.
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
word for word on Malkin's blog, or the Free Republic, etc etc and have it taken quite seriously. I know it's snark, but they'd lap it up. :)
before the brownshirts pull it? I'd do it if I knew how.
I downloaded a copy. You can do the same - just click on the Quicktime or WMV logo under the "download" option.
Hopefully humanity will one day learn to be humane.
...are probably the way to go, that way it's distributed as widely as possible.
In lieu of wanting to seed a torrent, here's a set of mirrors:
http://mir.cr/1ZRG8VGK
...quoting General Tony McAullife's reply to the German demand that he surrender at Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge: "Nuts!"
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
Ummm... that comment by the general was edited for the press...
Actually, it was probably something more like "Bullshit!"
Just sayin'...
In the marketplace of ideas, too many people shop in the bargain basement.
-- Thunder BlueRose
Why, yes, I am a card-carrying member of the ACLU
http://saxman.bravepages.com
Now you've ruined the whole movie.
Humpty Dumpty was pushed.
No worries... always glad to be of help...
*chuckle*
In the marketplace of ideas, too many people shop in the bargain basement.
-- Thunder BlueRose
Why, yes, I am a card-carrying member of the ACLU
http://saxman.bravepages.com
just saying
Just a guess, but it seems to me they are likely more concerned that this stammering nonsense will be used in a variety of campaign ads.
for all of the great replies here about the video your reply in my opinion hit the nail squarely on the head. The GOP does not want snippets played during election season for all of their districts constituents to see right after they bring in 1/2 the amount of groceries for twice the price as last year on tank pf $5 gas.
The successful unrest in the Middle East was initiated over the rise of food prices. They know the same can happen here.
Sounds to me like Rep. Duffy is missing out on his fair share of wingnut welfare.
Attention lobbyists, there is a young conservative congressman for sale in Wisconsin. Hurry up and pay the man for his vote before he says something else stupid.
...if they're so dissatisfied with the lifestyle that they have on his one paycheck -- a lifestyle which, may I point out, is probably better than that of most people on this entire planet -- why does Mrs. Duffy apparently not have a job? Don't get me wrong...I have absolutely nothing against full-time motherhood. However, most families which make the decision to get by on one paycheck so that the mother can stay home full-time -- and most of them make significantly less than this man -- realize that this will require them to make compromises with regard to their expenses (sometimes not only when it comes to luxuries, but necessities as well). Where did this man get the idea that he's somehow entitled to get everything he wants without making any compromises?
Never trust anyone who insists that patriotism requires you to blindfold yourself with the flag.
" lets all take a 5 % pay cut.".....ok lets see...
5% of 174k= $8700 174000- 8700 = 165,000
5% of 50k = $2500 50000- 2500 = 47500
165000 - 47500 = $117,500, or 247% MORE!!
And then he still snivels that he has loans, health care costs... blah blah wah blah...It never crosses his mind that we all have those same type of bills too, only on 250% less money!!
Or maybe he "owes" alot to the goons that got him elected, eh?
What a maroon!!
of course it doesn't! You think he actually cares about the people he's supposed to be representing??
A person with the ability to feel compassion for others would see that and say, "I must do something about this inequality."
A sociopath with only the most base primitive survival instincts for emotions will see that comparison and say, "I need more so I don't end up like those suckers."
Hopefully humanity will one day learn to be humane.
Since Rep. Duffy has an MTV background, he could have just said "Mo money, mo problems."
Spread this video around!
These repugs are sickening. This guy claims he has so much debt, indicating that his current salary can't pay it off? He's having trouble living off of $174,000 a year? WTF is wrong with these morons?
This is similar to Ohio governor Kasich (form Faux News guy) paying a few of his staffers significantly higher salaries than his predecessor did. Kasich is paying his chief of staff about $170,000, some $47,000 a year more than the previous chief of staff was paid. Kasich claims he has to pay more in order to attract good talent from the private sector.
Absurd. How did the previous governor retain a chief of staff for far less money?
Greedy pigs these repuglicans are.
A fiscal conservative drowning in debt... Self-awareness is not a quality found often in today's conservatives.
Hopefully humanity will one day learn to be humane.
He owns a Vacation home in northern WI. He's hardly "drowing in debt." Give me a f#$%ing break!
Times must be tough for Republicans who have to get by with only 2 homes!
Seven children heading for college some day can be a burden.
Liberty University ain't cheap.
(c-o-n-t-r-a-c-e-p-t-i-o-n)
Ed-words
I guess the GOP has never heard of the Streisand Effect?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
I'm not sure why you won't tell the gop to pound salt when they give you the cease and desist letter. This was a PUBLIC town hall meeting.
I'd actually tell 'em to go to the beach, make a big sandcastle, get a big hammer, and pound every grain of that sand up their collective asses...
But that's just me...
In the marketplace of ideas, too many people shop in the bargain basement.
-- Thunder BlueRose
Why, yes, I am a card-carrying member of the ACLU
http://saxman.bravepages.com
I'm sure they'll be so full of sympathy for your 'plight'.
What is it with these people? There are children and oldsters going hungry in this country through no fault of their own, and he has the brass ';nads to say this crap?
Time for some reverse Social Darwinism...
This is where it's balls up time.
Tell them to go fuck themselves and to file a lawsuit.
It's way past time to have the issue of public statements made by publicly elected government servants being available FREE to the public, to be settled.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
and they can do a take down? Was it a private town hall meeting?
I see he was the 10th of 11 children. Did his dad make twice his money (in those years' money)? or did he struggle with his choice and get food on the table anyway?
You know Sean and Rachel, fuck you and your selfish over population plan. And fuckface Duffy wants an across the board cut on public employees before he'll take a cut? I'd laugh my ass off if you found yourself struggling at the end of 99 weeks of unemployment, no benefits, no car, a bus ride to the food bank and a food stamp card, Sean. Here's a thought, you asshole. BUDGET. Cut your goddamn living expenses. Buy some rubbers, as in condoms. You can pick them up at Planned Parenthood, mofo.
'Cut' reminds me of a word that describes Sean Duffy and his republic party attitude. I'm just missing an 'n.'
me-oww!
couldn't he get rid of that?
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
on the Christmas party. She's on video describing how she had sushi flown in to Wisconsin for her party. It's been scrubbed from her website, but TPM has it.
By the time the repubs get their act together and find someone, somewhere among that actually understands these newfangled kompewters, that video will go seriously viral...
And those of us so inclined will be making the popcorn makers quite wealthy.
In the marketplace of ideas, too many people shop in the bargain basement.
-- Thunder BlueRose
Why, yes, I am a card-carrying member of the ACLU
http://saxman.bravepages.com
Let him struggle like everyone else whose unemployed on nothing a month. Being a sociopath, he won't learn anything from it, including empathy or compassion. But he needs to be slam dunked into reality.
Hey Sean Dummy --- Here's a solution to your financial problems: PULL OUT!!!!! Seriously -- 6 kids? Whose fault is THAT?
obviously the pull-out method doesn't work.
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
"Pull out? Doesn't sound manly to me, Bill...
I say let's leave it in there and get the job done right!
Of course, that IS what we're doing to those people over there"
--- RIP George Carlin
Odd how what's old is new again, and timely.
In the marketplace of ideas, too many people shop in the bargain basement.
-- Thunder BlueRose
Why, yes, I am a card-carrying member of the ACLU
http://saxman.bravepages.com
Self centered narcissistic fucks like this should simply be nut punched after making a statement like that.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
Seriously -- 6 kids? Whose fault is THAT?
The doctor is simply kneeling between her legs with a bushel basket at this point.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
That dude is seriously in need of either medical help (vasectomy) or mental help (failure to appreciate he doesn't have to get by on a measly $40,000 like one of WI teachers).
“The greatest evildoers are those who don’t remember because they have never given thought to the matter, and, without remembrance, nothing can hold them back,”
...the guy's name is Sean Duffy! No need to ask!
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
"Oh...Get that, would you, Deidre?"....
Interesting he was able to live for seven months with NO paycheck, while supporting six kids . .
How many of us would be able to go for seven months with no paycheck?
...supporting a wife and six kids with no income and THEN BITCH ABOUT THE INABILITY TO LIVE ON $174,000 PER YEAR?!?!
I need to forward this to my old friends, the Cavanaugh kids. I lost count of how many of them there were after Bridget was born (Pat, #3, is my age), and she was number eight. A great family, but, for the purposes of this discussion, probably best described as "shanty Irish". What Mr. and Mrs. C. could have done with that kind of money!
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
Call WI voters for Tuesday's Election: Now, it's time to get on the phones to help make sure working families have a voice on the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Can you sign up to make some calls?
http://act.democracyforamerica.com/go/625?aki...
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
is a valid description of most of our oligarchy and intelligentsia, it is not just this guy.
a book could be written about what technology and skills actually produce wealth and well being, and which do nothing but further the control and oppression of the population.
i know plenty of college educated people who feel totally justified earning six figures working for major corporations promoting foreign made products, all while our country circles the drain.
people like this guy get away spewing this nonsense because our society is untethered from the reality of the labor/wealth dynamic.
so, our emperor obomber has immelt sitting on a jobs advisory board, all while GE ships jobs overseas, and to top it off, pays no taxes, and in fact receives tax credits.
so what is more offensive? this yo-yo crying about his measly 174 grand? or a billionaire sitting on a jobs board?
somehow, sometime, the message must be gotten through to the citizenry and our elected officials, that it is labor that produces wealth, and that if it is the chinese, or indonesians, or taiwanese, or whoever, doing that labor, they will collect the benefits not the USA. it is far more important to get this economic reality to be understood, than just knocking down such easy targets as this ignorant man.
it is the ignorance of the nature of labor and production that leads people like sean whatever his name is, to make such asinine statements, and to attempt to govern, despite showing such profound naivete.
An absolutely logical and accurate argument that would immediately be labeled as Marxist and assassinated by our illustrious M$M.
"No one ever said these people were logically consistent."
- watchdog -
Don't let the Wisconsin goons bully you into censorship.
They have no right to make ANYONE remove this. This
video is public domain and public property since Duffy
is a public employee.
Don't take it down. They don't own this, the people do!
Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds--Bob Marley
I know it's already been mentioned before, but this is such a glaring example of how ridiculous the claims of 'fiscal conservatism' is. If this guy is deep in debt and cannot manage to support his family on such a huge income, he should not be in charge of any public funds at all.
Plus, saying 'it was already set that high when I got there' is a complete cop-out. Congress can change their pay scale and he should be creating amendments to knock it down if he thinks it's too high and not washing his hands of the responsibility. It's too bad that responsibility and politicians are too often like oil and water.
...let's not forget that members of Congress have voted in favor of increasingly their own salary far more often than they've voted to increase the minimum wage.
Considering the fact that Congresscritters are probably some of the few -- perhaps the only -- people in this country who have the power to determine their own pay and force their employers (i.e., us) to pay it regardless of how well they perform, it seems to me that an overhaul of the federal pay system is overdue. You can't tell me that this is anything close to what the Founding Fathers intended, because I won't believe you -- they never intended Congress to become a lifelong career. Considering the fact that the Congresscritters are supposed to be serving the needs of the American people instead of vice versa and given that we pay their salary, I think the taxpayers ought to have more say over how much Congresscritters earn.
Never trust anyone who insists that patriotism requires you to blindfold yourself with the flag.
What they are asking is the equivalent of a newpaper to be unprinted...several days after it's already hit the streets.
If this asshat is having trouble on $174k, just imagine how hard it is for somebody making substantially less. This dude, whether he knows it or not, is rubbing everybody's nose that he and his colleagues just got done fucking over in shit. I'm sure he's oblivious of that, because he's a GOPer, which make him a sociopath, which means that he's indifferent to the needs of anybody but himself. Noboody else matters.
No wonder the GOPers want to stuff this little genie back in the bottle.
He says as a Congressman, he pays about $600 for health insurance. He's a federal employee. I worked for the U. S. Postal Service as a federal employee from 1988-1995. I retired on disability and my healthy insurance, for me and my wife, comes to only about $265 a month. I have Blue Cross/Blue Shield through the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program. So, he's saying a former postal worker gets better insurance than a Congressman? Something is fishy. I think I smell Bullshit. If anything, it would be the other way around.
Unless he picked a plan that is much more expensive than the one I picked, something ain't right. Here's a link to all the plans available to federal employee:
http://www.opm.gov/insure/health/index.asp
You can check out what's available and the cost.
...I CRAP bigger than you.
Well, I snagged it, and I will be blogging about it (once the kids take a nap, because I don't make 174k to afford a nanny to raise my kids for me) and it will be on there later. www.progressivemuckraker.com
And I will NOT remove it. Threaten me all you want you repukes... your dirty tricks are coming to light!
Doesn't the right wing like to tell people who are struggling to support their children that they shouldn't have had them in the first place? Like they did to the family of a little girl with a heart defect when the family came out in support of SCHIP?
IOKIYAR
"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui
What really makes me spitting mad is the fact that many right-wingers like Duffy never miss a chance to lecture other people about the incredible virtue and importance of "taking personal responsibility", but very few ever bother to take that advice themselves. When their own backsides are on the proverbial hot seat, your average right-winger is every bit as quick as anyone else to point fingers and pass the buck in an attempt to avoid facing the consequences of his or her own choices and depict himself or herself as a helpless victim. Nobody forced Duffy and his wife to have six children, or to buy a second home, or to let Mrs. Duffy be a full-time mother -- all of these were choices that they made entirely of their own free will -- but now he's whining about the consequences of those choices, just like a lot of the people whom he and other Republicans criticize for not "taking personal responsibility."
My response to Duffy's complaint can be summed up in five words...put a sock in it.
Never trust anyone who insists that patriotism requires you to blindfold yourself with the flag.
Don't worry about the lousy 174 grand you poor boy , you'll magically become a multimillionaire like all senators and congressmen do .
Insanity , it is what it is , there is no understanding it .
what his type often tell people, why have so many kids if you can't afford them?
And dude, maybe you should try making it with 3-4 kids on $30-40,000 a year plus high health insurance premiums (if you're "lucky" enough to have it), copays and deductibles so high you still can't afford going to the doctor, student loan repayment, and little or no savings-- like a lot of Americans. Or worse, you don't have a job because you were laid off, and you're trying to make ends meet on unemployment.
RIGHT ON!
If I made that kind of money, I'd have 2 Masters Degrees and my own Graphic Design firm by now. As it stands, I don't know if I'm ever going to get the chance to get 1 Bachelors degree in Fine Art. It took me 10 years to get the money to get this far. I'm sorry to hear this douche can't make ends meet. Poor guy. I guess that RealWorld/Road Rules money wasn't as good as you would think.
No one can issue a cease and desist..that would result in removal! Something is screwy! Most newbies from the wingnuts are not schooled enough to not be foolish! How the repubs in Congress are so afraid of the old white people with signs and loud mouths but approvals at less than 32% and a voting block of less than 18% is beyond me!
panty wastes!
Please post the Cease and Desist letter when you receive. Thnx, Pie
The answer to a lot of our problems would be to restrict the total income of elected officials to that of the median income from their district. Total income. That means from businesses, speaking engagements, books, stocks, dividends...Require them to only earn the median imcome for their district/state. Their incentive would then be to raise the median income of all those they represent, rather than to scoop out more and more wealth/income for the uber rich. Maybe then we'd get politicians who actually want to serve the best interest of their country, rather than the best interests of corporations and the wealthy.
You mean to pay them for performance? Nah, that's only something little people have to deal with like teachers.
Hopefully humanity will one day learn to be humane.
guess your constituents decided to stop being polite and start getting real.
Haha, that was perfect!
who is the only reason I know about Real World - she was a teenager and totally enamored of the show.
to those who are running the show....
things 'should be' tickety boo on the road to greatness.....
Just what country do the Republicans think they're living in...Oceania??? Where the hell do they get off demanding that a video be pulled from the internet simply because it shows Duffy coming down with a bad case of foot-in-mouth disease and making a colossal fool of himself??? What makes them think they're entitled to create a de facto "memory hole"? This is completely at odds with the principles upon which this country is supposed to be founded.
And then people wonder why I say that the Republican Party is becoming increasingly Orwellian as time goes on...
Never trust anyone who insists that patriotism requires you to blindfold yourself with the flag.
A starting teacher in Wisconsin makes $25,222 a year. ( http://teacherportal.com/salary/Wisconsin-tea... ) Sean Duffy is a first-term legislator and makes $174,00 a year, seven times the salary of a "freshman" teacher. Since Mr. Duffy doesn’t consider himself to be rich and feels he is just getting by, just exactly how would he classify the economic status of workers in his state, such as young teachers, who are earning one seventh of his "just getting by" salary?
hey now c&l, don't go beating up on this righteous Republican prayer warrior and his quiverful of kids!
I'm amazed that this is happening in the Land of the Free
Alfie46
this jerk DECIDED to take this job change, he wasn't fired or layed off; forced to look for a less paying job. that is the difference, he insults everyone in the room telling them his sob story about how much he doesn't make and the affects on his lifestyle. who cares? once again a rep not taking any responsibility, he chose a big family, he chose this job, and trying to pretend like he didn't know the salary going in? all of it not believable and obscene.
I've been meaning to say this for a while now:
Thank you, Crooks and Liars, for having QuickTime videos on your site. Almost everyone else uses that horrible Flash. Thank you for having stand-alone QuickTime files here.
You guys rock
NOBODY 2012
who voted for this clown?
NOBODY 2012
As a DA he payed $60 a month?? Damn, I pay $400 a month on a $50,000 a year salary.
Now he makes $174,000 a year and pays $600 a month... and he's COMPLAINING?????
No healthcare for for us.... WEALTHCARE for the rich
Congress needs to take a pay cut. Forget that the president pro tempore and party leaders receive $193,400 per annum.
(435) House of Representatives at $174,000 = $75,690,000
(100) US Senators at $174,000 = $17,400,000
Washington annual median income $57,936
A fair wage would be to double that median and set Congressional pay to $115,872 for a total savings of $31,098,480.
The average American contributes 12% to 25% before tax income to pay for most benefits. Split the difference 18.5% and that is what Congress need pay for health care. 60% of Americans lack a defined contribution pension so no Congressional member is entitled to either FERS or CSRS (annual pension average $60,972).
As true Americans we are all making sacrifices and so should our neglected leaders.
God Bless America
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so he isnt all bad
Broken clock and all that...
In the marketplace of ideas, too many people shop in the bargain basement.
-- Thunder BlueRose
Why, yes, I am a card-carrying member of the ACLU
http://saxman.bravepages.com
1. What has the number of kids you have have to do in the slightest with how much you are making?!?!?? It doesn't, you moron! That dog won't hunt!
2. You have more debt than anybody out there? Well, I guess YOU'RE LIVING BEYOND YOUR MEANS!!!! That makes you a lazy, shiftless, bum...not the janitor that works at HHS.
3. If health insurance is so expensive for you now, why don't you just go into the free market and get health insurance outside of your employer? Because that's you Rethug's answer to everything...the FREE MARKET! (BTW, I think we should go about health insurance reform the wrong way...we should say, "OK, let's give Congressmen the same choices that the average Joe has. Let the insurance comapanies cut their @$$e$ from their policies because of pre-existing conditions, and see how THEY like it!")
I liked the questioner's ideas. Let's limit Congressmen salaries to $75,000 per year. That's NOT a paltry sum. Compared to what they're making now, that would save the taxpayers over $43 MILLION PER YEAR!
most are forced to have two residences...and rent is expensive in dc
but no one forced any to go into public life...therefore, they really dont have anything to bitch about
and 600 bux a month for healthcare to cover a family of 8, aint bad
btw...his wife is a total hottie
i wouldnt make her work either
According to disclosure records, he made $94,000 in salary from his job last year as county district attorney! Damned overpaid State employees and their collective bargaining agreements. Good thing he left for Washington or Scott Walker would have set him straight!
There a a lot of reasons he could give to explain why a Congressman makes more than this bus driver/builder and his teacher wife. Even the most cold hearted person shouldn't expect a member of the leadership of our country to make the same salary as a bus driver. Face it, the boss always makes more than the staff. Even a freshman rep is an elected "leader". This guy has tons more responsibilities, and the pressure that comes with it, than the bus driver. Doesn't make the bus driver less of a man...but he's not as important to the State or the Country. But instead of talking about the expenses related to being a Congressman he only says "I make $174k and I'm barely making it" Of course $174k sounds like a big number...you're supposed to be a leader. Explain why you deserve to make more than a bus driver....and having six kids isn't an excuse.
The YouTube link from before still works.
No need to go on a "watch this before it gets taken down!" panic. Scrubbing stuff from the web is nearly impossible. Just download it and be ready to upload it somewhere else if they tell you to take it down.
..which TPM put up today on their own server after they were told not to post the 5 min version seen above. Someone else has now upped it to YouTube.
TPM has finally said "screw it" and put the full video back up. Good for them.
Rather like I caution everyone I support, be careful what you say either in email, online, or in a digital video, as it'll be on some server and a bunch of folks' harddrives until the universe suffers heat death.
Never works... as evidenced from the inane postings of some trolls on some blogs, and the above video of a public figure.
In the marketplace of ideas, too many people shop in the bargain basement.
-- Thunder BlueRose
Why, yes, I am a card-carrying member of the ACLU
http://saxman.bravepages.com
gee, my health insurance costs $1,300 a month. No sympathy for a woman being used as a breeder reactor. D. C. is very expensive, you chose to live there and work for a few months a year, so quit whining.
I guarantee you this guy didn't resign as a deputy DA to go into government to work on behalf of the people. He went in to make contacts, to cut taxes for the very richest, like himself, and when he's done stabbing us all in the back and slashing everything that benefits the rest of us he'll go off and work as a lobbyist and continue working against the American people for some huge salary.
Rep. sen. Duffy's salary of $174,000.00 plus benefits ... complaining that he can't make ends meet!
We have to make a collection for him! And, the American people are not supposed to know these congressmens salaries ... (it slipped out, and was a rush, hush, pull out of circulation!)
All over the states with the budget cuts of services and salaries, and these creeps that really do nothing to improve our country, getting this kind of salary - living high on the hog!!!! This is why our country is sinking backwards!!!
Must we remind these Politicians that we, the working middle class pay for their salaries!!!! Our taxes go up and it goes into their pockets!! We just have to know who we want to share our money with!!!
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