Sen. Patrick Leahy is in his 7th 6-year term in the U.S. Senate. We did
a poster
on him in 2011 documenting his life of “Leahy’s Loot” how he spent $billions on
earmarks. We showed how he has cooperated with Harry Reid and others in
over-complicating the tax code and over-regulating and bashing U.S.
corporations forcing many to leave the country to be able to compete. Companies
like Apple and Caterpillar were put through the ringer of Senate committees by Leahy
and fellow statists not fond of free enterprise and free markets.
The other
Vermont Senator is self-proclaimed socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders who is
now, ludicrously, running for president –and bringing in $millions in
contributions and huge vote counts –not only in Vermont!
Investor’s Business Daily says it better than me (excerpts from
1/26/2016 editorial):
“… (Bernie Sanders) was a ne’er-do-well into his late 30s. …His
family managed to send him to the University of Chicago. Despite a prestigious
degree, however, Sanders failed to earn a living, even as an adult. It took him
40 years to collect his first steady paycheck — and it was a government check.
“I never had any money my entire life,” Sanders told Vermont public TV in 1985,
after settling into his first real job as mayor of Burlington.
Sanders spent most of his life as an angry radical and agitator
who never accomplished much of anything. And yet now he thinks he deserves the
power to run your life and your finances — “We will raise taxes;” he confirmed
Monday, “yes, we will.”
“One of his first jobs was registering people for food stamps,
and it was all downhill from there. Sanders took his first bride to live in a
maple sugar shack with a dirt floor, and she soon left him. Penniless, he went
on unemployment. Then he had a child out of wedlock. Desperate, he tried
carpentry but could barely sink a nail. Then he tried his hand freelancing for
leftist rags, writing about “masturbation and rape” and other crudities for $50
a story. He drove around in a rusted-out, Bondo-covered VW bug with no working
windshield wipers. Friends said he was “always poor” and his “electricity was
turned off a lot.” They described him as a slob who kept a messy apartment —
and this is what his friends had to say about him.
“The only thing he was good at was talking … non-stop … about
socialism and how the rich were ripping everybody off. “The whole quality of
life in America is based on greed,” the bitter layabout said. “I believe in the
redistribution of wealth in this nation.”
Needless to say, his voting record was one of tax, regulate and
spend –not unlike Sen. Leahy and the other Vermonter in Congress, Rep.
Peter Welch. No wonder IBD referred to the state as “the Peoples Republic
of Vermont.”
Peter Francis Welch succeeded Bernie Sanders in the at-large
House seat in 2007 after spending nine years in the Vermont legislature to
which he was appointed by then-Governor Harold Dean; he had a couple of other losing runs in-between.
Another career pol.
All three congressmen from VT are big spenders of other peoples’
money without any regard for the future generations that will be saddled with
the debt –now up to $20 trillion! All three are at the bottom of all of the
scorecards for their big government votes:
Citizens Against
Government Waste calls all three “Hostile” to taxpayers
National
Taxpayers Union grades all three a failing “F” for their concern for
taxpayers
Heritage Action
Scorecard: Leahy 4%; Sanders 15%; Welch 13% --out of 100%
The
Club for Growth: Leahy 3%; Sanders 7%; Welch 7% --these votes explain
the poor economy; 60% is considered anti-business!
No point in going further –these career pols are The Problem
with our country today. To examine the actual votes simply click on the name of
the group and the link will take you to their websites with detail on the
actual bills.
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Socialism is based on envy “Envy
is a terrible vice and it is the probable cause for the Socialists credo of
'redistributing wealth.' Taking from Peter to pay Paul, even though it is
stealing, has always attracted the Paul’s of the world; but it does not produce
wealth. It produces sloth — and it always fails. Like the dog biting its
tail, there is not enough nourishment for it to survive; but there is
a great deal of pain.” –Thomas Lifson
