{"id":1597,"date":"2008-05-02T10:08:46","date_gmt":"2008-05-02T14:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=1597"},"modified":"2008-05-02T10:08:46","modified_gmt":"2008-05-02T14:08:46","slug":"need-a-reason-to-be-angry-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=1597","title":{"rendered":"Need a reason to be angry today?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are you feeling just a little too happy today? Do yo need a reason to be angry? Well then just shoot over to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onebigdog.net\/absolute-abuse-of-taxpayer-money\/\" target=\"_blank\">Big Dog&#8217;s Weblog<\/a> who links to a <a href=\"http:\/\/wcbstv.com\/seenon\/car.lease.us.2.713776.html\" target=\"_blank\">WCBSTV<\/a> article on Congress members who abuse their taxpayer-funded leased vehicles;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It seems there is a loophole that allows them to lease vehicles at the expense of taxpayers and there appears to be no limit as to how much they spend on the lease. Taxpayers also foot the bill for registration, insurance and the GAS. No wonder these chowder heads are not concerned about the price of gasoline. It is not bad enough we have to pay a fortune to fill our vehicles but we also pay to fill theirs.<\/p>\n<p>Charlie Rangel of New York drives a Cadillac DeVille, and taxpayers are charged $774 per month ($9288 a year) to cover the lease.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Then there was Congressman Jose Serrano, getting out of his Buick LaCrosse, which he leases for $317 per month. And how about this one: Congressman Gregory Meeks was recently seen waiting for Congressman John Conyers to step out of Meeks\u2019 Lexus LS460, which Meeks leases for $998 per month.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Big Dog points out that Rangel is always calling for tax hikes, it must be because he needs spinners for his DeVille.<\/p>\n<p>My wife owns a Chevy Cobalt (35 mpg and we paid cash &#8211; lease is for suckers) and I use a BMW (that stands for Bike, Metro and\u00a0 Walking, not the Bavarian Motor Works) and we pay over $250\/week in taxes. Now I know why; so Rangel can cruise Southeast DC in pimped-out, airconditioned luxury. No wonder they think they&#8217;re better than us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you feeling just a little too happy today? Do yo need a reason to be &hellip; <a title=\"Need a reason to be angry today?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=1597\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Need a reason to be angry today?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}