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AKA: Insanity Personified - Nancy Pelosi
Why is this one a "Special"? It belongs to at least two (2) of my Rumors categories:
- Attribution because is says Ms. Pelosi said this stuff.
- Attempted Assassination (of Character) because someone appears to have taken a parody written before the elections in 2006, and made it appear to be current, promoting their OWN agenda.
Except for formatting, the white section is as I received it.
Following are comments that were on the email I received
My Gosh, this woman must be insane!!!!
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This is scary!
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You aren't going to believe this. Madam speaker Nancy Pelosi wants to put a Windfall tax on all stock market profits (including Retirement fund, 401K's and Mutual Funds! alas it is true, all to help the 12 Million Illegal Immigrants and other unemployed Minorities!
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Boy, are we in trouble... This woman is frightening. Take special note of the last paragraph Is she really this whacked out?

Speaker Nancy Pelosi
Nancy Pelosi condemned the new record highs of the stock market as "just another example of Bush policies helping the rich get richer. First Bush cut taxes for the rich and the economy has rebounded with new record low unemployment rates, which only means wealthy employers are getting even wealthier at the expense of the underpaid working class".
She went on to say "Despite the billions of dollars being spent in Iraq our economy is still strong and government tax revenues are at all time highs. What this really means is that business is exploiting the war effort and working Americans, just to put money in their own pockets".
When questioned about recent stock market highs she responded "Only the rich benefit from these record highs. Working Americans, welfare recipients, the unemployed and minorities are not sharing in these obscene record highs. There is no question these windfall profits and income created by the Bush administration need to be taxed at 100% rate and those dollars redistributed to the poor and working class. Profits from the stock market do not reward the hard work of our working class who, by their hard work, are responsible for generating these corporate profits that create stock market profits for the rich. We in congress will need to address this issue to either tax these profits or to control the stock market to prevent this unearned income to flow to the rich."
When asked about the fact that over 80% of all Americans have investments in mutual funds, retirement funds, 401K's, and the stock market she replied "That may be true, but probably only 5% account for 90% of all these investment dollars. That's just more "trickle down" economics claiming that if a corporation is successful that everyone from the CEO to the floor sweeper benefit from higher wages and job security which is ridiculous. How much of this 'trickle down' ever get to the unemployed and minorities in our county? None, and that's the tragedy of these stock market highs."
"We democrats are going to address this issue after the election when we take control of the congress. We will return to the 60% to 80% tax rates on the rich and we will be able to take at least 30% of all current lower Federal Income Tax tax payers off the roles and increase government income substantially. We need to work toward the goal of equalizing income in our country and at the same time limiting the amount the rich can invest."
When asked how these new tax dollars would be spent, she replied, "We need to raise the standard of living of our poor, unemployed and minorities. For example, we have an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants in our country who need our help along with millions of unemployed minorities. Stock market windfall profits taxes could go a long ways to guarantee these people the standard of living they would like to have as "Americans".
Send it on to your brilliant friends. I just did!!
Status: WRONG
Source(s):
- Urban Legends Reference Pages (Snopes): Nancy Pelosi
- TruthOrFiction.com - Nancy Pelosi on Taxing the Rich-Fiction!
Comment(s):
If it were true... It was a parody based on EXTREMES of Democratic stereotypes - a satire written BEFORE the elections in 2006! It's unbelievable what people believe to be real.
Elections are around the corner. Of COURSE the political BS emails are going to increase. And that's what the majority of them are!
If your friends are so brilliant, why would they believe this sh-t without checking it out for themselves? Just because they hate Democrats? Republicans? Independents? GEEZE! With hate like this, you ignore everything positive they do, because you are concentrating on the negative, that may or may not be party-associated.
There are good Republicans, good Democrats, good Independents, and good ideas in all political parties. The idea of a democracy is that Americans elect the people they feel will do the best for the government for which they are being elected, not that that's what's happening. The old "What's in it for ME!" thing rears its head, and the idea changes to elect the people you feel will do the best for YOU, not America in general. When that happens, the people elected are also in it for themselves, and pander to those who can give THEM the most, before they are part of the system, during, and after. THAT'S what you must watch out for.
And stop believing the crap that passes itself off as politics in emails. 99.9% of it is crap - satires, those attempting to scare their friends that gets out of hand, those who slander and libel politicos, etc., with full-out lies and half-truths.
And forwarding this stuff without checking it out and proving - providing links to the proof - whether things are true or false is just showing how prejudiced and shallow-thinking the sender really is.
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