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| Rick Larsen Town Meeting; Oink, Oink | |
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| Betsy Ross | Jan 30 2009, 11:56 PM Post #1 |
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Rick Larsen Town Hall Meeting – Everett, Washington - January 30, 2009 At 11:00 PM on Friday, Rick Larsen, Congressman for the 2nd Congressional District had a supposed Town Hall Meeting. Only problem is that you, his adoring public were not invited – not excluded, mind you, just that there was no media attention or internet notice of the event. On an inside tip late the night before, a few hardy liberty loving patriots decided that they would attend. After all, their taxes helped to pay his salary, including his pay raise. The aim of the so called town hall meeting was to promote the new 819 billion dollar Obama stimulus bill just passed by Congress and heading to the Senate. As I stood in line waiting to sign in, I heard Larsen’s aide saying, “Oh hi Lucy, did you get my email? Oh hi John, glad you could make it on such short notice. Oh, Frank, glad you heard about the last minute venue change”. Obviously, they knew just about everyone there and it turns out 95% were government people. Ordinary people have jobs on Friday at 11, except for the recently unemployed like myself. After Larsen spent 45 minutes going through the gravy delicious, fat dripping, Kentucky Fried Legislation, you began to hear snorting sounds from the audience. Why there was a positively porcine gopsmacking delight in the millions that would be directed to government agencies right there in Snohomish County and they had been specifically invited in to feast on the kill! At the question and answer period, they lined the trough eagerly. After snuffling at Rick Larsen’s feet, slathering their thanks, they only had questions such as, “How can you guarantee that money will be going directly to Snohomish County and not getting lost in the larger trough?” The welfare agencies weighed in with delight at their windfall. The transportation agency said that now was a great time for infrastructure projects because with the terrible economy they were getting 27 or 28 bids per project when in the boom times they would only get one or two. “This will result in great savings on our transportation projects”. One man, who was obviously just a citizen, (how he ever managed to find out about the meeting, who knows, must have wandered in off the street) asked how millions for food stamps was going to stimulate the economy. Our congressvampire told him that the Congressional Budget Office had explained to him that for every $1.00 of food stamps issued, $1.71 was returned to the economy. The baffled citizen sat down, obviously trying hard to figure that one out. A businessman weighed in and questioned if “a $500.00 tax cut was really going to help his failing business.” He was assured that the CBO had it all figured out and of course it would. Finally, having not eaten any breakfast, but having no stomach for the cannibalistic gobbling of pork, I stood and introduced myself and said, “Mr. Congressman, I am a taxpayer!” There was a palpable hush in the room as a slight indigestion set in. A taxpayer? Who let a taxpayer in? No one wanted to see one of those. Why, they would positively spoil the whole party! “And as a taxpayer, I would like to know how you are going to get the money to pay for all of this. I have read that this will cost $6,000 for every man, woman and child in America which adds up to $24,000 for the average family of 4. And that is not accounting for interest, which of course will more than double the bill. That makes $50,000 per family and that is not counting how inflation will devalue the money, running up the bill even more! At which point Larsen had to stop and point out that he questioned my figures and that he didn’t believe it was going to be that much per family for this bill. “But, Mr. Congressman, that does not even count the bailout bill that was passed just last year for $700 billion and the $2 trillion dollars that the Federal Reserve took and we can’t even find out where all of that money went. So that’s almost $4 trillion now not counting interest and inflationary pressures from just printing the money out of thin air”. As I was saying this he kind of shrugged and flapped his hands a bit impatiently, as if to say “What the hell does that have to do with our trough party? Damn taxpayers, they really know how to put the damper on a good feeding frenzy.” But he rebounded and leaped to the attack and pointed out that we needed to spend the money on infrastructure because that would create jobs and stimulate the economy. I said, “but Mr. Congressman we could rebuild our infrastructure debt free if we just abolished the Federal Reserve, which is not part of the government and is a private banking cartel. Why are we paying debt on loans when we could just loan ourselves the money without interest?” Rather than bothering to deny that the Federal Reserve was a private banking cartel, which leads me to believe he knows the score, he just gave a hostile stare. Of course his silence let me once again speak, “Perhaps you should educate yourself, Congressman on that issue, and vote to abolish the Federal Reserve”. “And since almost all of you here are getting a slice of the pie, maybe you are overlooking the fact that we are mortgaging our children’s future, and our grandchildren’s future and their grandchildren’s future and placing them in debt servitude, with a debt that can never be repaid”. The 10 people there that were not government feeders applauded. Later one of our own patriots got up and read from the Constitution to show that they had no authority to spend our money on all of these things. He then explained that this made Larsen a traitor to his country. There were a lot of outraged oinks that anyone would call the good Congressman a traitor when he had given them such a lavish, calorie rich, buffet of goodies to munch on, filling their bellies with lard for the long, lean months ahead. “Next question, please!” At which point he carefully selected people he knew by first name to speak and there was more gushing about his greatness and hard work. Then, an hour before he was scheduled to leave, he said that he had some elementary school children waiting for him and he had to go right away so that was it for the question period. The long and short of it is that the Obama Democrats see that this is a perfect time to loot the public treasury for all of their pet programs. After all, everyone else is looting the country, so they should get their’s while the getting is good! Edited by Betsy Ross, Feb 14 2009, 08:52 PM.
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| Virginia | Jan 31 2009, 12:25 AM Post #2 |
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Kudos, Michele! You handled Larsen very well. Helen went to the meeting, too, and she says in her e-mail: Well, it was as we expected, they are so good at this that people just go along with it, with a smile. The whole presentation was staged, he knew most people in the room on a first name bases and called upon them as needed. They in turn heaped praise on him, asked questions he could answer to make it look like sugar candy and one person even slipped and called him Senator which of course was a tickle for him. It seems is it better to give food stamps and unemployment money out than taxes cuts to people as this gives more money to the economy. Those people getting taxes cuts just spend it or save it, those silly people! 38 states are in a recession, more to follow. We got a 6 page hand out called, get this, HR1 the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. If we don't do it their way, we will have a 11% unemployment by 2010. If we do it their way, we will only have a 9.5% unemploymentin 2010...woppeeeeeeee. It is at 7% right now. He started talking at 11:05am and finished at 11:30 am, then he took questions. We got out of there at 12:10pm, but not before Michele and Tom hammered him. We are not sure if he left for that school meeting or just to go to lunch as it was getting steamy. For 40 minutes, he took questions from 3 people he didn't know and the rest he did. Just case any of you have accounts with Citicorp, they just bought a $42 million jet....... No surprise there, they have been on my black list for 3 years now, so I didn't buy it, maybe I saw it coming..... Debbie Copple showed up, but got there as it closed and was mad as hell she missed it all. No worries, Tom shamed Larsen with his finger, shouting, his uncle Sam hat and yes, he did use that word, INDEX SHOOTING RANGE!!!! Best of all, no one went to jail today! I am one of those GOP people who will be in total stealth, I love the fact the word starts with steal. Stealing back from them what they took from us, liberty and freedom. The best part, the joy of surprise, fun.......... Helen on Wheels (Hell on Wheels-stealth style) |
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| ShannonOBrien | Jan 31 2009, 01:43 AM Post #3 |
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Way to go, guys! It takes a lot of guts to stand up and say things that people might disagree with. Even when you know you're right. How did Rick Larsen react when asked about Index? |
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| Salty1988 | Jan 31 2009, 06:45 AM Post #4 |
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Thanks for the report Virginia. Way to go Tom! You the man! It was a very bad day for me yesterday so I couldn't go to the meeting. Not to worry though, it's much better today. Still, my doctor will be tapping her toe with arms crossed while scolding me when I see her, I guess. She has her hands full with me. I really feel like a lucky man to be a part of such a great group of people that gathers in our group. We showed up as could get there, and it sounds like we made an impact. That's what counts in this crazy world. Debbie told me that she might not make it to the meeting. I'm delighted she got there though even if it was as it broke up. Know well that she is a friend of liberty. I'm sure Rick Larsen saw her and slinked away in his usual huff and dark expression put on to mask his fear of her. grin I'm also happy that you folks saw what was really going on in that meeting. Larsen was there as the U.S. House Democrats band leader sent to sell the public a fraud and plan devised by pirates. John DeWitt called it "In short, my fellow Citizens, it can be said to be nothing less that a hasty stride to Universal Empire in this Wesern World, flattering, very flattering to young ambitious minds, but fatal to liberties of the people." Dave |
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| Minarchy4Sale | Jan 31 2009, 07:48 PM Post #5 |
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Lets look forward to the day that the patriots outnumber the pigs. |
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