We love Charlie!
Rangel says he’s been exonerated. “My staff, they knew who was paying for my junket, but me? Me? Hell, I just stuffed the ticket in my pocket and went. What, you think I should have asked? Fuck you!” Nancy Pelosi continues to support the Chairman of the house Ways and Means Committee because “well heck, he’s a Negro – everyone knows they have no morals”.
One question. Have you, ANYONE out there, flown somewhere where you didn’t know who was paying for the flight? EVER?
This one is so easy to fix.
18 year olds in NCAA sports are suspended and get in trouble for having dry cleaning done by a booster, let alone cars, planes, etc. They must be accountable for themselves.
New law: ALL TRAVEL IS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE CONGRESSMAN TO KNOW WHO PAID FOR IT. IN FACT, IT IS THEIR RESPONSIBILITY TO TO KNOW WHO IS BACKING ANYTHING THEY DO. WHILE I THOUGHT THIS WAS OBVIOUS TO MOST SANE PEOPLE, IT IS A DISGRACE THAT THIS IS NOT A RULE OF LAW TODAY.
And who isn’t sick of the old skool black excuse “shit man, i didn’t know, sheeyut”. Its so Jesse, so 70s. Old skool, and just plain old. Out with all these assbags. If we can have a black president, we can certainly repeal the old law of “it’s ok to claim stupidity because if you say i’m dumb i’ll call you a racist you cracker”. How much longer do we have to put up with a jackass that forgets he owns a 3m dollar building, and now this? Can you imagine a hard core audit of this entitled jerk? He’d be romming with Bernie in a day…
From Jim Himes, via Twitter and his website…
Himes Gives Back Rangel Campaign Contributions
Feb 26 2010
Washington, D.C. –
Following a ruling against Ways & Means Committee Chairman Charlie Rangel (NY-15) by the House Ethics Committee, Congressman Jim Himes (CT-4) announced that he will donate to charity the contributions Mr. Rangel made to his campaign.
“I admire Mr. Rangel for his decades of leadership on civil rights and his service in the armed forces and in Congress. But as elected officials, we must live up to the highest ethical standards. Given this admonishment by the Ethics Committee and the other allegations pending against him, I have directed my staff to donate to charity the campaign contributions received from Mr. Rangel.”
http://himes.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=22&parentid=21§iontree=21,22&itemid=402
Priapus,
I can tell you that I did once sit on a plane not knowing who was footing the bill. Blissful ignorance.
The company that my husband was working for at the time, relocated some of their staff, and their families, to a transatlantic location as part of the dynamic implementation of a last minute, cobbled together, disaster recovery plan.
I recall, at the time when boarding the aircraft, audibly complaining about being in tourist class rather than in the ‘slightly upgraded’ class, below business.
When were all in the new location, we were placed in a smelly, out of season holiday apartment complex. I stayed one night and then checked into the most expensive luxury hotel on the island to compensate myself for the trauma. Subsequently, a collective bunch of us received notification that the then, fairly small but highly profitable, successful and growing company, had decided not to pay for the girlfriend /spouse/ offspring’s return flights when repatriating us back home. We were to book and pay for the privilege ourselves.
It hadn’t been a business trip, it had been a temporary relocation. A step which the managers had quickly realised had been unnecessary and foolhardy. In attempt at financial damage limitation, they expected the displaced staff to contribute to the lowering of the extremely wealthy Partners ‘costs’.
We were to be self funded. The company had not booked return tickets, for the outbound journey, we had flown on single tickets.
It was all so disappointing to finally realise that the company that my husband had worked, sweated blood for, over a number of years, had such an attitude towards their staff, when it had been them who had moved us all over. They really had showed their true colors. We already knew deep down. The partners ordinarily, had been possibly, saving vast profits for themselves to the detriment of the end of year ‘profit sharing’. Every Christmas they reported to their staff during the annual party speech, that it had been a “bad year” and bonuses would unfortunately, have to be minimal. My husband knew this to be untrue, as his particular part in the business as a revenue earner, had been fabulously successful, with an ever increasing pool of clients throwing business their way. My husband had managed to bill thousands of dollars per client, for work which only took him a few hours, because of his particular expertise in that area. He was competitive with the other firms, but much quicker and would fit in to their last minute deadlines to get the business. Because the clients needed this emergency action, the quotes were ever increasing and the quantities of clients increased hugely. A fact which surely had been company wide as they were all reasonably in the same business. The facts never added up, there was a dissonance in what we were hearing at the Christmas Shindig and what my husband knew.
After much disagreement over the return flight costs, it also emerged that the company were also intending to ‘deduct’ the employees for the outbound flight cost of the single tickets for spouses !
So back to your question: Have you ever sat on a plane not knowing who was paying. I have, but I didn’t know that fool was me!
Dear relocation disaster:
I didn’t ask if you ddin’t know who you got f#cked by, but who was paying for your flight…great story though. Makes me glad I wasn’t an attorney.
Priapus,
“Relo”(i think we know eachother well now)
I think i’ll need extrashower time now, thanks…
rangel=pinocchio
“Many of our partners are millionaires by the time they are 45.” Sounds so quaint in the age of hedge funds/PE.