Linda Sanchez, one of the two sinister Sanchez sisters in Congress, is symbolic of the government she is part of. The woman makes a hefty $174,000 per year plus a long list of bennies, but apparently has so little money in the bank that she can’t survive a government shutdown without her paycheck.
“I have to tell you that I live paycheck-to-paycheck, like most Americans,” Sanchez wailed. “I’m still paying off my student loans. I have a 2-year-old son who I have to support, and I have to maintain residences on both coasts. It’s very difficult for me to say, ‘Hey, I can give up my paycheck,’ because the reality is, I have financial obligations that I have to meet on a month-to-month basis that doesn’t make it possible for me.”
“Now, if you’re a member of Congress who is a millionaire and there are quite a few members of the House and Senate that are, it’s really not a problem for them,” Sanchez complained. “But they don’t share the experience that most Americans share, that I know, having grown up in a family of seven kids to immigrant parents that you have to really stretch a paycheck to make sure that it covers everything. And, you know, this suggestion that it’s so easy for every single lawmaker to do that, that’s just simply not the case for a lot of us.”
At least she’s consistent. As a good liberal Democrat she’s spent the country to the brink of a fiscal nightmare and as an individual she’s done the same thing.
But if she truly wants to be consistent, perhaps she can simply borrow some money from China.
This post was last modified on April 8, 2011
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My heart is breaking for this bitch. R U Kidding me?
Just shows you though, they are OH SO generous giving away the income of those who bust their asses working, really working for a living, but try to hit them in THEIR wallets and wow, do you have a change of heart.
Grew up in a family with seven kids trying to make ends meet, freakin idiots, you don't make enough to live comfortably so you have seven kids. That shows me stupidity yet she wants pity.
"Fiscal responsibility" isn't in her vocabulary.
whine, i have "two" residences to maintain. I got a mansion on the west and a holiday house on the east. Gawd, I'm going to suffer if I lose my $175k paycheck
Waaaaaaahhhhh , Waaaaahhhhhh!
Whatever... Am I supposed to feel bad for her or something? Please what career politician at some point doesn't have some money in the bank (especially those tax free banks offshore)?
Please...
You freakin fat toad, you have obviously never missed a meal. Are you competing with Moochell for the fattest ass award?
I live in Anaheim and would do quite well on one-sixth of her paycheck. But then, I live in a two-bedroom apartment with a roommate and two cats.
California Congressperson. Enough said.
You know, if this fat b***h would just lay off the menudo, she could cut back on the Jenny Craig and save herself enough money to get by that way. These asswipes will never do without as long as we keep carrying the water for them. We need a revolt...a big, big, national revolt, as in revolution! We need to sweep these effing libtard liars and thieves under the national rug and get back to constitutional basics! Who's with me?
Senora Sanchez... cabesa gorda.