FACEPALM: House Republican Tells Furloughed Federal Workers To Take Out Loans to Pay Their Bills

[kpete]

House Republican Tells Furloughed Federal Workers To Take Out Loans to Pay Their Bills


http://www.politicususa.com/2013/10/11/paid-house-republican-tells-furloughed-workers-loans-pay-bills.html

[htuttle]

1. That reads like an Ad Words ad

[Rex]

2. AWESOME! I love it when the GOP wants to be left out of election cycles!

Fucking assholes.

[dballance]

3. "We" Who? Encourage them? Him and those great payday loan people?

That's just as absurd as "I have a nice house and a kid in college." As if lots and lots of the people furloughed don't?

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. Via Open Secrets

Steve Pearce (R-NM), 2010
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Net Worth: From $8,033,014 to $37,245,000
Rank: 20th in House
Assets: 14 totaling $8,033,014 to $37,245,000
Liabilities: 0
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Positions Held: 6
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[Pretzel_Warrior]

5. Hey, Joe Congressman. GO FUCK YOURSELF. Why don't you offer loans at negative interest rates

since you're such a swell standup guy.

Republicans are the death of humanity.

[Wait Wut]

6. Let me take a guess...

...he can give you a great referral. A relative or contributor, maybe?

[bluestate10]

7. What a fool!! Even bigger fools are the people that vote a moron like that into office. nt

[ecstatic]

8. my friend is using credit cards and

hoping everything will be resolved before November's rent is due. She doesn't even want to think about what will happen if it's not. I asked if her landlord might be sympathetic and she said no.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

9. What, no "borrow from your parents" suggestion?

[pinboy3niner]

11. !!!

Very nice! These attitudinal connections are very revealing, aren't they?

[dixiegrrrrl]

10. Screw me out of my pay and see what happens.

Those coming back to work are not going to be happy campers.
We should make friends with them....

[arcane1]

12. I wonder if the payday loan companies send him campaign contributions

Seriously, that reads just like an advertisement from them.