Really Charlie...? Really?
Replublished from WSJ "The Absent-Minded Chairman"
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203706604574376720192072820.html
"When normal people happen to "find" their own money, it might mean a twenty left in a winter coat, or discovering change beneath the sofa cushions. But if you're Charlie Rangel, it means doubling your net worth.
Earlier this month the Chairman of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee "amended" his 2007 financial disclosure form—to the tune of more than a half-million dollars in previously unreported assets and income. That number may be as high as $780,000, because Congress's ethics rules only require the Members to report their finances within broad ranges. This voyage of personal financial discovery brings Mr. Rangel's net worth for 2007 to somewhere between $1.028 million and $2.495 million, while his previous statement came in at $516,015 and $1.316 million.
When you're a powerful Congressman and working diligently to increase tax rates to pay for President Obama's health-care plan, we suppose it's easy to lose track of one of your checking accounts. That would be the one at the federal credit union with a balance somewhere between $250,001 and maybe as high as $500,000. And when you're crunched for time and pulling together bills to pass in a rush, we guess, too, that you might overlook several other investment accounts, even if some of them are sizable, such as the ones Mr. Rangel missed at JP Morgan, Merrill Lynch, Oppenheimer and BlackRock.
Oh, and those vacant properties in Glassboro, in southern Jersey? Everybody in Manhattan tries not to think much about New Jersey, so those lots and their as-much-as-$15,000 value must also have slipped down the memory hole. (The New York Post reported yesterday that Mr. Rangel failed to pay property taxes for two of the lots, according to the county clerk's office.)..."
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I'm sure glad that the DEMS have such intergity... Hey Charlie... I'm sure this guy can help you find what you might have forgotten to disclose????
Alright...let's be serious.. well, no... there is too much seriousness already…
Here’s a guy who has been a serving senator since 1971. And he’s being judge by the foxes… Hen house door open… end of hen’s…
This cements my thinking that they’re all crooks… they may not start out with nefarious intentions… but I guess when you have a reported net worth of “somewhere between $1.028 million and $2.495 million” it can get a little tough to remember the smaller accounts…. It’s like the savings account I have that has $53.02 in it.. I completely forgot about it… I’m with you Charlie… I get you… no...not really… I don’t get you and I can’t understand how the people of Harlem can tolerate this guy… but no…it’s reported “In Harlem, some of Rangel's shocked constituents said he had been railroaded.”
Shocked….
railroaded…
are you F’n kidding me…!
Take off the blinders people… Your senator is dirty… and yes… they caught him “ ridin dirty…caught him ridin dirty~”.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203706604574376720192072820.html
"When normal people happen to "find" their own money, it might mean a twenty left in a winter coat, or discovering change beneath the sofa cushions. But if you're Charlie Rangel, it means doubling your net worth.
Earlier this month the Chairman of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee "amended" his 2007 financial disclosure form—to the tune of more than a half-million dollars in previously unreported assets and income. That number may be as high as $780,000, because Congress's ethics rules only require the Members to report their finances within broad ranges. This voyage of personal financial discovery brings Mr. Rangel's net worth for 2007 to somewhere between $1.028 million and $2.495 million, while his previous statement came in at $516,015 and $1.316 million.
When you're a powerful Congressman and working diligently to increase tax rates to pay for President Obama's health-care plan, we suppose it's easy to lose track of one of your checking accounts. That would be the one at the federal credit union with a balance somewhere between $250,001 and maybe as high as $500,000. And when you're crunched for time and pulling together bills to pass in a rush, we guess, too, that you might overlook several other investment accounts, even if some of them are sizable, such as the ones Mr. Rangel missed at JP Morgan, Merrill Lynch, Oppenheimer and BlackRock.
Oh, and those vacant properties in Glassboro, in southern Jersey? Everybody in Manhattan tries not to think much about New Jersey, so those lots and their as-much-as-$15,000 value must also have slipped down the memory hole. (The New York Post reported yesterday that Mr. Rangel failed to pay property taxes for two of the lots, according to the county clerk's office.)..."
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I'm sure glad that the DEMS have such intergity... Hey Charlie... I'm sure this guy can help you find what you might have forgotten to disclose????
Alright...let's be serious.. well, no... there is too much seriousness already…
Here’s a guy who has been a serving senator since 1971. And he’s being judge by the foxes… Hen house door open… end of hen’s…
This cements my thinking that they’re all crooks… they may not start out with nefarious intentions… but I guess when you have a reported net worth of “somewhere between $1.028 million and $2.495 million” it can get a little tough to remember the smaller accounts…. It’s like the savings account I have that has $53.02 in it.. I completely forgot about it… I’m with you Charlie… I get you… no...not really… I don’t get you and I can’t understand how the people of Harlem can tolerate this guy… but no…it’s reported “In Harlem, some of Rangel's shocked constituents said he had been railroaded.”
Shocked….
railroaded…
are you F’n kidding me…!
Take off the blinders people… Your senator is dirty… and yes… they caught him “ ridin dirty…caught him ridin dirty~”.
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