GOP Congressman: The Debt Is As ‘Immoral’ As Slavery

[kpete]

Source: Think Progress

GOP Congressman: The Debt Is As ‘Immoral’ As Slavery
By Annie-Rose Strasser on Feb 28, 2013 at 8:55 am

A Republican Congressman this week compared the country’s debt to the United States’ history of slavery.

In an interview with the conservative magazine Newsmax, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) also equated excessive government spending and abortion, both of which he considers among the “most horrendous things this country has done”:



“Slavery and abortion are the two most horrendous things this country has done but when you think about the immorality of wild, lavish spending on our generation and forcing future generations to do without essentials just so we can live lavishly now, it’s pretty immoral.”

Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2013/02/28/1650421/debt-slavery-gohmert/

[closeupready]

1. Said the guy who voted 'yes' on 2005 Bankruptcy Deform.

Something kind of hypocritical about that, don't you think?

[cbrer]

2. Sure, but what spending have YOU voted on? nt

[markpkessinger]

3. So I guess that means . . .

. . . that bankers are the moral equivalent of slaveholders.

Cool, I'm down with that!

[Botany]

4. And no doubt Louie was all sorts of pissed off @ Cheney when he said "Deficits don't matter."

and then Dick and W turned the Clinton surplus into the bush deficit by cutting
taxes on the rich 2 times, starting unneeded wars that were not paid for, and
pushing through a big unfunded medicare part D drug plan.

"They" are not interested in the deficit but in crashing the economy for
what they see to be political gain.

[volstork]

17. Couldn't have

said it any better myself!

I'm SO sick of them railing against the deficit that their boy created!

[Botany]

18. and this sequester will add to the deficit too

but to be honest they really don't care about the deficit because to them
it is just a tool with which to try to hurt the President with.

[lexw]

48. I think this was their plan all along:

rack up a huge deficit (make money while their at it), and then cut cut cut.
It keeps looking to me like they are taking us back to feudalism—and these fukrs' parents are smiling in their graves.

[Uncle Joe]

42. + Infinity with a cherry on top.

[JustAnotherGen]

44. Dear Lou

Go Cheney yourself!

[HooptieWagon]

5. I'm guessing he was greatly in favor of debt...

...when Ronnie, Poppy, and shrub were racking it up. Republican hypocrisy knows no bounds.

[KamaAina]

6. Slavery is the new rape

I'll take "Things Repukes Should Just Shut Up About" for $400, please, Alex.

[frylock]

7. and the GOP congressman is as dumb as shit

[Skittles]

8. only when there is a Democratic president

and ESPECIALLY a Democratic black president

[BainsBane]

9. then your party shouldn't have waged two wars

while lowering taxes and creating the biggest government expansion in history through Homeland Security, not to mention the Big Pharma subsidization act that was Medicare Part D.

[Deep13]

10. Yes, debt is immoral. ...

The writers of the Old Testament recognized that when they declared that every 7th year all debts would automatically erased.

So, public creditors should do the honorable thing and forgive the public debt.

[Roy Rolling]

13. Jubilee year

Yeah...bring back the Jubilee!

Louis is against government debt but not at all concerned that individuals, students, and everybody else is made a slave by banks and sleazy financial practices.

[KansDem]

11. No problem with going to war while cutting taxes...

Louie Gohmert on Tax Reform

Voted NO on extending AMT exemptions to avoid hitting middle-income. (Jun 2008)
Voted NO on paying for AMT relief by closing offshore business loopholes. (Dec 2007)
Voted YES on retaining reduced taxes on capital gains & dividends. (Dec 2005)
Rated 0% by the CTJ, indicating opposition to progressive taxation. (Dec 2006)
Repeal the Death Tax. (Jan 2009)
Taxpayer Protection Pledge: no new taxes. (Aug 2010)
Adopt a single-rate tax system. (Jul 2010)
Repeal tax hikes in capital gains and death taxes. (Jul 2010)
No European-style VAT (value-added tax). (May 2010)
Supports the Taxpayer Protection Pledge. (Jan 2012)

Louie Gohmert on War & Peace
.
Voted YES on banning armed forces in Libya without Congressional approval. (Jun 2011)
Voted NO on removing US armed forces from Afghanistan. (Mar 2011)
Voted NO on investigating Bush impeachment for lying about Iraq. (Jun 2008)
Voted NO on redeploying US troops out of Iraq starting in 90 days. (May 2007)
Voted YES on declaring Iraq part of War on Terror with no exit date. (Jun 2006)
Strengthen sanctions on Syria & assist democratic transition. (Apr 2008)
Sanctions on Iran to end nuclear program. (Apr 2009)

http://www.ontheissues.org/TX/Louie_Gohmert.htm

He has no problem with increasing deficits as long as a Republican is in the White House.

Fucking hypocrite!!!

[thelordofhell]

12. So the country has always been immoral

I do believe there was only 1 year in the entire history of our country where we were not in debt

[Volaris]

33. Yep. Andrew Jackson Administration.

An asshole, to be sure, but he DID get shit done.

[n2doc]

34. He did it by selling of land he took from Native Americans

In essence, he stole to pay off the debt. Not a good model to follow.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/04/15/135423586/when-the-u-s-paid-off-the-entire-national-debt-and-why-it-didnt-last

[Volaris]

36. I thought the other part of it was that

he didn't renew the charter for the Central Bank. (hint, hint lol)

But yeah, some Native American Tribes TO THIS DAY will not use or accept $20 bills in protest of what he did while he was President. Can't really blame them; like I said, he WAS an asshole to them.

[iandhr]

14. And they wonder why African Americans vote Democratic?

[Tuesday Afternoon]

15. no shit Sherlock. So glad you figured it out. Lower CC interest rates NOW !!

[Richardo]

16. Is it as immoral as legitimate rape?

The GOP suicide meme of 2013.

[BadgerKid]

19. So robbing Peter (the 99%) to pay Paul (the 1%) would be immoral?

Any comment, Congressman?

[patrice]

20. Louie, Louie, no! no! Slavery is as immoral as slavery. How much do you make an hour? nt

[another_liberal]

21. So, Representative Gohmert, indict George W. Bush . . .

So, Representative Gohmert, why don't you indict George W. Bush and his enablers. Put them on trial for the debts they racked up by starting wars of choice and cutting taxes for the wealthy. Convict them and send them to prison.

[randome]

22. So every corporation on the face of the planet is immoral, eh?

Every family that owes a mortgage or is repaying student loans? Ass-hat!

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

23. You notice that only white guys are willing to make that comparison? (nt)

[muntrv]

24. Hey Louie! Did you feel this way during the Shrub administration?

[Phlem]

25. rrrriiiiiiiight.

Cause the GOP are the go to on Morality!?

Give me a fucking break.



-p

[indepat]

26. If Federal debt is immoral, why doesn't the good Congressman come clean and tell us

its root and causes and who the culprits are. Also, wouldn't a pledge of no new taxes be especially immoral? And how does GOP hypocrisy, mendacity, distortion, obstruction, and disingenuousness rank on the immorality scale?

[Hard Assets]

27. It's Gohmert again.

Why am I not that fucking surprised?

Please, please, Texas Dems, just throw the fucking IDIOT out.

He won't find a job elsewhere.

I see his district is pretty much Redneck, USA.

It's time for some serious money pouring to Texas Dems for voter education purposes. It's time to inform the constituents what he is doing in their names.

It's time to eliminate the low information voters.

[They_Live]

28. Guess those illegal wars

should have been put into the budget way back in the day, eh, dickweed?

[L0oniX]

39. +1 ...and a few trillion.

[calimary]

29. Hey gohmert, the republi-CON party is as immoral as slavery.

PERIOD.

The republi-CON party is an obscenity.

[Thinkingabout]

30. Louie Gohmert, says he is against abortion then pushes for guns everywhere.

He is prolife when talking about forced birth but progun to abort the lives of those already born. Now does this make any sense, only in the tea party bunch.

[silvershadow]

31. How we got that much debt is immoral, perhaps. n/t

[Heywood J]

32. Would that make Reagan, Bush I and Bush II

slavemasters-in-chief? Someone should tell this guy what party he represents.

[n2doc]

35. OooooKay....

Start by eliminating subsidies to profitable companies, like Oil and agribiz. Then we shall see if you are serious. I won't hold my breath.

[Andy Stanton]

37. Louie "Gomer" Gohmert

Everything this guy says is incredibly stupid.
He's a complete moron, even for a Republican!

[L0oniX]

38. He must have forgot about the genocide of the indian nations. n/t

[Turbineguy]

40. Unless of course

it's the part done by repubs.

[judesedit]

41. That's funny..since he's one of the ones who created it.Two unfunded wars, etc.Yes they are immoral

[love_katz]

43. Darn, too bad Molly Ivins passed on...

she would wipe the floor with this idiot's behind.

[demwing]

45. This part is true:

when you think about the immorality of wild, lavish spending on our generation and forcing future generations to do without essentials just so we can live lavishly now, it’s pretty immoral.

I agree 100%

I doubt that we agree on who is at fault and what is the cure, but this GOPher has a bead on the overlying symptoms

[Psephos]

46. big +1 n/t

[demwing]

47. That quote reminds me of this picture:

when you think about the immorality of wild, lavish spending on our generation and forcing future generations to do without essentials just so we can live lavishly now, it’s pretty immoral.

[Gabby Hayes]

49. An Aggie named Gohmert from Tyler, told Newsmax.......

What else do we need to know about that story?

If you want to distract and piss off Looey then start mailing him old Aggie jokes.

Example:
Q: What do you do when an Aggie throws a grenade at you?
A: Pull the pin and throw it back.

[CarmanK]

50. There is no such comparison and he undermines the seriousness of slavery with such talk.

[Deep13]

51. Here's a possible solution: devalue the currency.

Screw the capitalists, not the working people.

[Chakab]

52. I thought that it would either be Gohmert or Bachmann

when I read the title.

[blkmusclmachine]

53. Nuts