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Thursday, June 4, 2015

Burr told constituents not to mob ATMs

This is another example of do as I do, not as I say...

http://www.politico.com/blogs/glennthrush/0409/Burr_told_constituents_not_to_mob_ATMs.html

Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) told his wife to pull the family's cash out of an ATM at the height of last fall's financial crisis — but he advised North Carolinians not to panic when Charlotte-based Wachovia was taken over by Citigroup in an emergency transaction around the same time. 

"On Friday night, I called my wife and I said, 'Brooke, I am not coming home this weekend. I will call you on Monday. Tonight, I want you to go to the ATM machine, and I want you to draw out everything it will let you take. And I want you to go tomorrow, and I want you to go Sunday,'" Burr told the Henderson County Chamber of Commerce on Monday.

Saturday, September 21, 2013

Barack Obama: "We're Not Some Banana Republic, This Is Not A Deadbeat Nation"

So if the US doesn't want to be a deadbeat nation, it should go further into debt--as it has for decades?  OK, got it.

Chiquita republic here we come...

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-09-20/barack-obama-were-not-some-banana-republic-not-deadbeat-nation

Yet,

The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can’t pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies. … Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that “the buck stops here.” Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better.
- From Sen. Obama’s Floor Speech, March 20, 2006