Senator Charles Schumer Would Rape His Own Children if a Bank Told Him To
Although the link may have changed by the time you read this, on June 23, 2010, the unemployment rate in the state of New York was 8.3%. The US Census says New York’s total population is 19,541,453. Doing some quick math, we’re talking about 1,621,940 people out of work.
So you’d figure Senator Charles Schumer would be going all out to help them. You would be wrong: the Senate has repeatedly failed to pass an unemployment extension, leaving hundreds of thousands without a lifeline. In fact, just this morning, Schumer’s hometown newspaper called out the Democrats for abandoning the unemployed:
Back in session for nearly three weeks, the Senate still has not acted. That means that 900,000 jobless workers have already lost their benefits, a number that will swell to an estimated 1.6 million people if an extension is not passed by the July Fourth holiday. Lost benefits — the average check is $309 a week — deprives struggling Americans of cash they need for buying food, paying the rent or mortgage and other essentials.
All indications are that when the Senate finally does pass a bill, it will be stingy and cynical — hacking away at jobless benefits and fiscal aid to cash-strapped states, while preserving tax breaks for the wealthy and other well-connected political donors.
The rest of the editorial is a nauseating list of all the ways so-called Democrats, “the party of working people”, are turning their backs on working people to reward banks.
As he always does, Charles Schumer is doing the bidding of his real constituents, the only people he actually cares about By “people”, of course, I mean banks: Schumer is teaming up with the Republicans to gut an amendment that would lower card swipe fees for merchants. If the amendment survives Schumer’s attacks, it means lower fees for businesses, with the savings passed on to consumers, ordinary people like you and me:
As the compromise stood yesterday, banks and major credit card companies were set to lose billions in profits every year, thus denting their concentration of wealth and power. Also, some of the money will be passed along to small businesses, charities, and consumers.
On the Senate side of the Wall Street reform conference, however, New York Senator Chuck Schumer is still trying to protect the profits his wealthiest, most powerful constituents. Sources close to the process have told me that, in conjunction with major credit card lobbyists, Schumer is currently trying to get Republicans to offer a new amendment in the conference committee that would gut the compromise deal. Schumer has been working to defeat any regulation of credit and debit card processing fees all along.
Well isn’t THAT special: in a state with close to 2 million unemployed people who are set to lose their benefits (and presumably later their homes, health care, dignity) Charles Schumer wants to make sure the BANKS, the very institutions that got us into this mess to begin with, don’t have to part with any profits. We taxpayers have bailed out the banks already, and now Charles Schumer insists they continue to profit at the expense of the rest of us, making it all the more difficult for we ordinary Americans to dig ourselves out of the hole the banks dug for our economy.
That’s why I say Chuck Schumer would rape his own children (and grandchildren) if a bank told him to, and without the benefit of lubricant. And, Schumer would do it with relish: heck, if Citibank told him to, Schumer would film the raping and put it up on youtube for a nickel a view, with all the profits going to Citi. He’s a horrible Democrat in so many ways, and like the rest of the parasites in the Senate, he’s as impossible to dislodge as a case of genital herpes.
