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Wasserman Schultz: My Aides
Can´t Afford Good Meals

Big Government, by Mike Flynn

Original Article

Posted By:Drive, 3/22/2013 8:32:03 AM

On Tuesday, FL Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and her colleague VA Rep. Jim Moran openly whined about the impacts of spending cuts on their personal office budgets. Moran fretted that, with the looming sequester cuts, he may have to cut one staffer from his office. Wasserman Schultz upped his ante, however. She, almost literally, suggested that her staff were on the brink of starvation, due to the cuts. Speaking at a hearing of the House Legislative Branch Appropriations Subcommittee, Wasserman Schultz worried that prices of meals in House

  

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Reply 1 - Posted by: jond, 3/22/2013 8:36:52 AM     (No. 9238142)

Are they eligible for food stamps?


Reply 2 - Posted by: Poca Dot, 3/22/2013 8:41:16 AM     (No. 9238153)

Wizards cannot figfure oiut how to pay for food on $160,000 salaries ($250,000 a year with perks)


   

 

  


 
Reply 3 - Posted by: sinic, 3/22/2013 8:43:24 AM     (No. 9238158)

Can you believe this bullshirt! These people are beyond help...as is the country, evidently. You should try it out here in the dreaded private sector, Debbie Whatshername.


Reply 4 - Posted by: Rather Read, 3/22/2013 8:44:40 AM     (No. 9238161)

This is ridiculous. I make WAY less than Debbie´s aides and I eat a good lunch. It´s called brown bag and I´ve done it for years.


Reply 5 - Posted by: Winmag, 3/22/2013 8:51:47 AM     (No. 9238179)

In the meantime, several republican reps have turned in hundreds of thousands of dollars in saved office expense. These pig democrats think they are kings and queens.


Reply 6 - Posted by: PChristopher, 3/22/2013 8:53:01 AM     (No. 9238182)

Tough


Reply 7 - Posted by: Keekng, 3/22/2013 8:53:56 AM     (No. 9238184)

Let´s hope DWS´s constituents read her blather and understand it.


   

 

  


 
Reply 8 - Posted by: skedaddle, 3/22/2013 8:55:31 AM     (No. 9238188)

Why don´t they redistribute their income to their staffs? I thought they believed in that sort of thing.


Reply 9 - Posted by: alpha91c, 3/22/2013 8:59:46 AM     (No. 9238200)

Well Debbie Wasserman Schultz is good for one thing. She is eye candy. It isn´t often you find a dem lady politician that is really beautiful and sexy looking. Debbie can´t help it she stereotypes the beautiful but dumb blonde. The dems need to keep her around because she is so decorative.


Reply 10 - Posted by: Grace Veritas, 3/22/2013 9:01:20 AM     (No. 9238202)

How long will the Republican opposition allow this tragic situation to continue? When will the American people cease their craven greediness and fork over their fair share, so that moral outrages like reducing heroic public servants to eating subpar meals will never happen again? Shouldn´t the public trough be filled with the finest cuisine in the greatest nation on earth? Have the Republicans no shame? Have you no shame, America?


Reply 11 - Posted by: mickturn, 3/22/2013 9:01:42 AM     (No. 9238204)

Tough crap woman, maybe they need to stop eating steaks and lobster for lunch!

How about bringing in peanut butter/jelly sandwiches?

This is so much BS it makes me sick!


Reply 12 - Posted by: Keekng, 3/22/2013 9:03:26 AM     (No. 9238208)

#9, I suggest you set up an appointment with a ophthalmologist or an optometrist.


   

 



 
Reply 13 - Posted by: GreatGreyhounds, 3/22/2013 9:03:31 AM     (No. 9238209)

I for one don´t consider Wasserman Schultz to be eye candy....


Reply 14 - Posted by: dcomd, 3/22/2013 9:04:39 AM     (No. 9238213)

#9, I´d get an appointment with the ophthalmologist stat!


Reply 15 - Posted by: LadyVet, 3/22/2013 9:07:18 AM     (No. 9238216)

Years ago when I was at the Capitol, I was amazed at how low the prices were in the Senate restaurant. I figured it had to be a heavily subsidized operation, using taxpayer money so that elected officials could have such a cheap meal. I would not be surprised to learn that the House restaurant and the Senate restaurant both were huge money losers, much like the Senate barber shop. (There was a recent thread posted here that revealed that the barbershop cost us $5 million over a few years.)


Reply 16 - Posted by: Texasguy, 3/22/2013 9:08:42 AM     (No. 9238218)

And yet there will be thousands of voters who will believe every word. To paraphrase: "No dem ever lost an election underestimating the intelligence of the American voter." We´re doomed.


Reply 17 - Posted by: Holeymoses, 3/22/2013 9:09:10 AM     (No. 9238219)

Amazing how they try to whip up outrage. Any Democrat who voted for Obama deserves to starve. No sympathy here!


   

 

  


 
Reply 18 - Posted by: Freeloader, 3/22/2013 9:10:13 AM     (No. 9238221)

"My aides can´t afford good meals and now I can´t afford the services of a decent hairstylist," chirps the ever ubiquitous Madame Wasserman Schultz.


Reply 19 - Posted by: BarryNo, 3/22/2013 9:21:39 AM     (No. 9238244)

Quinn was right - hide their food stamps under their work boots and they starve to death in two weeks...

... we should be so lucky!!


Reply 20 - Posted by: Blue-Z-Anna, 3/22/2013 9:25:31 AM     (No. 9238253)

The truth is nowhere to be found in these people.

The message is: ANY reduction in the rate of growth of spending will hurt us and we will be forced to hurt you.

It´s the Marxist Mantra.

Let´s all do the Liberal Limbo !

How low can you go ???


Reply 21 - Posted by: heartsurgeon, 3/22/2013 9:26:36 AM     (No. 9238254)

if their federal tax rates were lowered, they would have more take home pay to pay for those meals....alternatively, perhaps they could bring their lunch from home in a brown paper bag...like I am.


Reply 22 - Posted by: Nimby, 3/22/2013 9:31:15 AM     (No. 9238269)

News flash! Debbie. Ya think we can afford supermarket prices either. You and your kind are taxing us out of our livelihood. And all you can think of are your peons?


   

 



 
Reply 23 - Posted by: tasine, 3/22/2013 9:32:09 AM     (No. 9238274)


Reply 24 - Posted by: gobushcheneygo, 3/22/2013 9:34:01 AM     (No. 9238278)

Woman, your aides can eat in the Senate dining room for next to nothing and you know it. It´s HUGELY subsidized. Besides, your aides´ salaries are much higher than the average middle class employee and the rest of us manage to avoid starvation. And, for the millionth time, there are no SPENDING CUTS! Only a small decrease in the expected annual increase. Wasserman Schultz has no less money to run her office this year than last. What a liar!!!!! Where, oh, where are the Republicans calling out the RATS on these lies?


Reply 25 - Posted by: melman, 3/22/2013 9:38:00 AM     (No. 9238286)

To any intelligent person it is obvious that Liberalism is a mental disorder.


Reply 26 - Posted by: lil dotty, 3/22/2013 9:38:09 AM     (No. 9238287)

If they find themselves unable to eat good meals, just have the rats eat one another. Hey, Goldilocks.....WTP can´t afford good meals, energy to heat our homes or run our vehicles. What ´cha gonna do about that?

a dissatisfied voter.


Reply 27 - Posted by: tasine, 3/22/2013 9:38:14 AM     (No. 9238288)

I strongly urge little Debbie to help her staff pay for their food necessities. She has more money than she needs, and for her to let them starve is unforgivable. This woman needs training wheels for her brain - it just isn´t making it on its own.


Reply 28 - Posted by: yuban, 3/22/2013 9:40:44 AM     (No. 9238293)

Insane.


Reply 29 - Posted by: spahrkl, 3/22/2013 9:44:11 AM     (No. 9238299)

Sanity! Where is it in Washington? We are living with twits.


Reply 30 - Posted by: Chuzzles, 3/22/2013 9:45:44 AM     (No. 9238302)

I read this yesterday on Breitbart. It explains why our Government has a spending problem when it is explained in the article that her $120k staffers can´t figure out how to afford a stinkin´ $2 bowl of soup. (actual price in a congressional lunchroom).

We are so screwed people if we can´t clean house in 2014.


Reply 31 - Posted by: treecat, 3/22/2013 9:47:54 AM     (No. 9238305)

Any ´Press´ is good press?

(please, no leaked videos)


Reply 32 - Posted by: JAN, 3/22/2013 9:52:25 AM     (No. 9238313)

Do they have to use their relative´s false teeth?


Reply 33 - Posted by: CEP, 3/22/2013 9:53:43 AM     (No. 9238316)

Raid Michelle´s kitchen.


Reply 34 - Posted by: bnrmusa, 3/22/2013 9:56:28 AM     (No. 9238324)

Is there not some greasy, crony, kick back money that DWS can share with the poor trolls?


Reply 35 - Posted by: Keekng, 3/22/2013 9:58:32 AM     (No. 9238328)

After the eye doctor she should visit a good dentist and have those snaggle teeth redone.


Reply 36 - Posted by: coldoc, 3/22/2013 10:17:03 AM     (No. 9238370)

#9 proves the old saw- there´s no accounting for taste.


Reply 37 - Posted by: pearlyjo, 3/22/2013 10:21:08 AM     (No. 9238380)

#9 is correct - among liberal women, Debbie is eye candy.
That said, have her staffers considered moonlighting? I hear you can usually eat the take out orders not picked up after an hour and many donut shops throw out the old stuff. How about dumpster diving on the Potomac. Gotta be some good eats in the dumpsters of Georgetown.


Reply 38 - Posted by: mickturn, 3/22/2013 10:27:03 AM     (No. 9238394)

On the Eye Candy #9 brought up...OH GAG!

Her Husband will likely toss her into the Gorilla pen at the zoo...´Tell him you have a headache´!


Reply 39 - Posted by: krause, 3/22/2013 10:29:23 AM     (No. 9238402)

Rand Paul could give Little Debbie a lesson on the wise use of budgets.


Reply 40 - Posted by: snowoutlaw, 3/22/2013 10:44:20 AM     (No. 9238437)

Candy my eye. More like a suppository for my word. Maybe these poor people should buy their own food and not force me to pay for some of it.


Reply 41 - Posted by: SouthSanAntonio, 3/22/2013 10:57:53 AM     (No. 9238472)

Gee, you mean her aides are having to bring sandwiches from home, or maybe heat up a Lean Cuisine frozen dinner in the micorwave -- just like almost everyone out here in the real world who doesn´t have a cush job as a Congressional aide???

Except of course for all those people who have to skip lunch most days because they lost their jobs under the crushing incompetence of Øvomit-nomics and simply can´t afford to actually eat more than once a day???

Whiney rich lie-berals just don´t cause my ´´give a damn´´ meter to budge in the least...


Reply 42 - Posted by: redwhite&blue2, 3/22/2013 11:30:13 AM     (No. 9238565)

What a coincidence. It´s our day of the month to shop at Winco (groceries) and Wal-Mart (essentials) and it takes us about an hour in each store, 2 hours total. We go there once a month to stock up, we live about 25 miles away....I´d like to take this sh**-head schultz with us to teach her how to shop for food and essentials a month at a time. We spend about $150-200 at each store, for the month....If she cant do what we do, then her and the rest of the lefty witches and devils elected by stoopid stooge LoMoFo´s need to turn in their stinkin´ badges and go home! What an idiot!

Of course, it isnt about being thrifty at all, they all think that they are ROYALTY and we peons owe them so much more...If she ever took the sh** out of her mouth and made some sense, even the idiots would know how much this dumb dora lies all the time. ALL THE TIME! It´s a trademark of lefties--LIARS!!!


Reply 43 - Posted by: DARling, 3/22/2013 11:35:23 AM     (No. 9238582)

I was at the grocery store behind a woman in the checkout line yesterday, and she was chatting about how her two kids were aged two and four months, then answered her smart phone, and finally paid for her load of name-brand groceries with her EBT card. She could have bought twice as much if she´d purchased some fresh foods and vegetables and some store brands. I, on the other hand, pulled a dollar bill and some change out of my wallet to buy a few vegetables that I needed for dinner. I didn´t want to withdraw cash at the ATM or use a credit card to buy just a couple of things.


Reply 44 - Posted by: thethirdruffian, 3/22/2013 11:38:34 AM     (No. 9238588)

Well, when you spend $70,000 a year on condoms, money gets tight.


Reply 45 - Posted by: capt scurvey, 3/22/2013 12:00:56 PM     (No. 9238644)

If I was a democrat, I´d be insulted by this arrogant loud-mouthed liar...


Reply 46 - Posted by: snowoutlaw, 3/22/2013 12:23:06 PM     (No. 9238691)

#42 Wal-Mart is illegal in most liberal areas.


Reply 47 - Posted by: Italiano, 3/22/2013 12:24:44 PM     (No. 9238695)

Good. Let ´em starve.


Reply 48 - Posted by: paral04, 3/22/2013 4:10:35 PM     (No. 9239043)

Louis Farrakan wants to establish a black nation on US soil. I say give them MA. Would get rid of Wasserman Schultz and Kerry plus the rest of the left-wing numb skulls.


Reply 49 - Posted by: ohyababy, 3/22/2013 6:52:36 PM     (No. 9239217)

Make their lunch at home and bring it to work like the rest of us!


Reply 50 - Posted by: ColonialAmerican1623, 3/23/2013 4:22:46 AM     (No. 9239616)

Even Ron and Nancy Reagan tried living off of food stamps. Maybe Debbie and her staff should try living off of Social Security for a month.

The one and only thing Zippy ever said that I agreed with was Washington lives in a bubble.

They haven´t a clue about the real world.



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Chelsea Clinton has raised her profile in the last few days, which sparked the inevitable question about the former first daughter´s future: Will she ever be like Mom and Dad and run for office? Clinton, 33, essentially said "maybe" in an interview that aired Monday on NBC´s Today show. "Right now I´m grateful to live in a city, a state and a country where I strongly support my mayor, my governor, my president and my senators and my representative," said Clinton, whose father, Bill, was president from 1993-2001 and her mother, Hillary

Is going gluten-free
healthier for everybody?

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The Week, by Staff    Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog- 4/7/2013 11:28:27 AM     Post Reply
Gluten-free diets are all the rage, but they can be dangerous if not done right. What is gluten? It´s the spongy complex of proteins, found naturally in wheat, rye, and barley, that gives elasticity to dough and allows it to rise. When flour is moistened and either kneaded or mixed into dough, gluten molecules form an elastic, microscopic latticework that traps the carbon dioxide produced when yeast ferments, causing dough to inflate like a hot air balloon. Baking hardens the gluten, which helps the finished product keep its shape. Wheat — and gluten — is ubiquitous in the American diet.


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