Yesterday Fox Business Channel’s Neil Cavuto treated a Unites States Congressman with all the respect he deserved. None.
First the Fox host lost his composure. Then he lost his voice. Cavuto went crazy when pathetic Congressman Alan Grayson (D-FL) couldn’t or wouldn’t and certainly didn’t answer a simple, straightforward question about the congressman’s bill to restrict wages for Amerian workers.
“The Constitution never gave you the damn authority of telling anyone what they should make…,” Cavuto raged. “The Constitution never gave you the authority to blithely come in here and arrogantly set pay for people you don’t even know. And, you don’t have the guts to come back at me and tell me what you think adequate pay range is.”
As the Orlando Sentinel reported on the bill, “The U.S. House is expected to vote today on a measure aimed at halting the payout of “unreasonable and excessive” bonuses to employees of financial companies that received federal bailout money.”
“The bill — a brainchild of U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Orlando — would let the Treasury Department and financial regulators set standards to avoid a repeat of the outrage over AIG, the insurance giant that paid $165 million in bonuses to executives after it got more than $180 billion in bailout funds.”
Other questions Grayson probably can’t or won’t answer:
Have you stopped beating your wife? What is the distance from the sun to the moon? What is pi? And finally, aren’t you ashamed of yourself?
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Interesting perspective Matthew. It is rather difficult to prove what something is not, such as in your assertion that capitalism is not freedom. However, I would suggest that capitalism or a "free" market economy is quite a bit more like freedom than socialism, marxism, communism, or half a dozen other "ism"'s. As for that document that means nothing to you, it should. Millions of Americans have sworn to protect and defend that particular document (and hundreds of thousands have died doing so). And while that in itself doesn't probably impress you, their efforts in this endeavor have gauranteed you the right to blather on with your argumentum ad ignorantiam. Yes, money comes from other people - other people who have the freedom to spend it however they want, well, at least until they are forced to purchase health insurance.
The Constitution means nothing. It's a piece of paper. Don't worship is like some sort of secular god.
Pay should be limited. That money doesn't come from a void. It comes from other people. Capitalism is not "freedom". It is exploitation.
Grayson is a real piece of work....he's the Congresspunk who falsely claimed that Rush Limbaught wanted America to fail when he said he hoped Obozo would fail....he has a mail order Phillpina bride named Lolita