DWS: Hostile to Taxpayers

In 1988, at age 22, Deborah Wasserman-Schultz became an aide to Florida legislator Peter Deutsch and when he went on to the U.S. Congress in 1993 she ran and was elected to his seat in the Florida House of Representatives where she served until 2001. After a brief stint in the Florida Senate she again followed Peter Deutsch when he retired from the U. S. Congress and she was elected to his seat in District 20 (currently District 23) where she has been ever since. In 2011, Vice President Biden announced that Wasserman Schultz was President Obama’s choice to be the 52nd Chair of the Democratic National Committee. That year, she missed 62 votes of Congress, placing her 45th of 535 in missing Congressional votes.

“…so proud to be a Democrat. Our candidates are the only ones committed to making college affordable, to raising the federal minimum wage, to protecting our seniors, to fixing the broken immigration system, and to addressing climate change…” She wrote on her Facebook page in November 2015. No mention then or since how to accomplish such promises nor, of course, how to pay for them.

Wasserman-Schultz is yet another professional politician with no experience in the private sector or any of the industries or issues she is voting on. It is no wonder why Congress makes so many mistakes and then makes them worse when they try to correct them. It is not only their ignorance of how the free market works but their personal motivation to do what is best for their careers. To them, reelection is Job #1.

ThIn 2016 after WikiLeaks published Democratic National Committee emails which suggested that DNC staffers had expressed support for Hillary Clinton in the primary campaigns while criticizing the Bernie Sanders campaign, Wasserman Schultz tendered her resignation as the head of the DNC, to become effective as of the close of the nominating convention in Philadelphia. Following a speech at the convention before the Florida delegation where Wasserman Schultz was “booed off stage” the DNC announced she would not gavel open the convention.  According to reports in The Washington Post, Wasserman Shultz strongly resisted suggestions she resign, requiring a phone call from President Obama to finally force her resignation.

The non-partisan Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW)  in October 2010 named her Porker of the Month for “exaggerating the effect of the failed stimulus program, exaggerating job numbers, and lying to the American people.” Today’s CAGW rating among her peers shows her having their lowest rating as “Hostile to Taxpayers.”

The non-partisan National Taxpayers Union (NTU) rates U.S. Representatives and Senators on their actual votes that affect taxes, spending, and debt. DWS, as she is nicknamed, earns their lowest grade, an “F.” That grade goes with the title, “Big Spender.”

The Club for Growth Scorecard, also non-partisan, scores votes of Congress as they affect the growth and vitality of the economy. By her votes our poster child Debbie shows no concern for the economy as she is rated at the bottom of the House members of Congress! The Club rates her as a “big-government, tax-and-spend politician.” None worse.

The conservative Heritage Action Scorecard gives DWS a score of ZERO -0%. Heritage Action leads the fight for both spending cuts and tax cuts, and FOR confirming constitutionalist judicial nominees who make decisions on the meaning in the written constitution and not on “penumbras and emanations.”

Given this record along with her leadership position in her party she can fairly be blamed for a large part of the poor economy, the annual deficits, and the terrible national debt. We can find no socially redeeming positive value in any part of her record. That makes her the perfect poster child for term limits on Congress.

The problem is the Congress will not pass term limits on themselves –we’ve tried that. The Good News is that we can do it without the consent of Congress as U.S. Term Limits has a plan: TLC for Congress — a Term Limits Convention.

Article V of the U.S. Constitution provides an alternate means of proposing constitutional amendments not requiring a Congressional vote. It will be done via a convention of the states (not to be confused with a constitutional convention “con-con”). U.S. Term Limits is a single issue non-partisan advocacy group. Check it out: termlimits.org

Please get involved and help to reform our government so as not to further overburden our children and grandchildren who have to pay the bills for what the professional politicians are spending and borrowing now. Our forefathers rebelled over “taxation without representation” and yet our elected Congress is taxing citizens yet unborn for their purposes today.

Go here https://www.termlimits.com/and sign the online petition. Remember that 80+% of your fellow citizens agree on the need for term limits, a costless reform to get better qualified and better-motivated citizen-legislators

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