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Gothmog

(145,046 posts) Wed Dec 5, 2018, 11:31 AM Dec 2018

Remember Blake Farenthold, the disgraced former congressman who never repaid $84,000 in taxpayer $ t

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Remember Blake Farenthold, the disgraced former congressman who never repaid $84,000 in taxpayer $ t (Original Post) Gothmog Dec 2018 OP

It just never seems to end with these sleazy bastards! justhanginon Dec 2018 #1

You mean this guy? Arkansas Granny Dec 2018 #2

OMG! My eyes! Danascot Dec 2018 #4

He comes from a wealthy S. Texas family. He could tender the repayment without any trouble. Paladin Dec 2018 #3

justhanginon

(3,289 posts)

1. It just never seems to end with these sleazy bastards!

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Wed Dec 5, 2018, 11:42 AM

Dec 2018

No matter how rotten, they always seem to manage to get yet another well paying government job. Meanwhile many honest citizens struggle to make ends meet with an underpaid minimum wage job. America has become a haven for corrupt politicians, the rest of us, not so much!