Monday, August 5, 2013

Overheard in Washington, D.C.:


Eric Cantor



"You want relief from the sequester? Cut the entitlements. Our way or the highway!"

Eric Cantor (R-Virginia), Majority Leader for the House, whose personal worth is estimated at between $3.4 and $9.4 million, while he earns $193,400 per year in Congress.


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Mitch McConnell

"Cutting entitlements is the only way we Republicans will ever agree to rework the sequester cuts. The American people sent us here to do things that are unpopular and that includes cutting Social Security and Medicare, thus ensuring every middle class person who has built their retirement plans on the foundation of those two programs will live out their lives in poverty, after working and paying into those systems for the past 40 years. Ah, fuck 'em. I guess they made some bad decisions, most notably, trusting their government."

Sen. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky), whose personal net worth exceeds $50 million

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