Maxine Waters in line to take over from Frank on Financial Services By Bernie Becker and Peter Schroeder - 11/28/11 08:24 PM ET
Wall Street executives are bracing for the possibility that Rep. Maxine Waters will take over as the top Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee after Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) retires.
Waters, an outspoken California liberal who is considered to the left of Frank on financial and housing issues, suggested in a statement Monday that she is laying the groundwork to become the senior Democrat on the panel.
“As the next most senior member of the committee, the current ranking member on the Capital Markets subcommittee and the former chair of the Housing and Community Opportunity subcommittee, I hope to use my experience to continue and expand his work in the committee,” Waters said.........................>>>>..........................>>>>................................http://thehill.com/blogs/on-th.....n-financial-services
If Waters were to replace Frank on the financial committee it would be like replacing dumb with dumber.
Not really, her goals are MUCH more clear than Bwany Fwank's
"Approval ratings go up and down for various reasons... An example is the high post 911 support for GWB even though he could be said to be responsible for the event." --- Box A Rox '9/11 Truther'
Melania is a bimbo... she is there to look at, not to listen to. --- Box A Rox and his 'War on Women'
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
In 1986, the Marcos regime of the Philippines was overthrown in a people’s revolt and the dictator Ferdinand and wife Imelda Marcos were forced to flee the Malacañang Palace. (See last post.) Imelda fled wearing her espadrilles. Because she was flying to Hawaii in an American helicopter provided by U.S. President Reagan and paid with American tax dollars, she was unable to take her enormous wardrobe. In the palace closet, she left behind between 2 and 3 thousand shoes. Imelda Marcos was the First Lady of the Philippines, a country deep in poverty. The outrage was immediate and the news went international. President Marcos’ successor, Corazon Aquino, ordered many of Mrs Marcos’ shoes to be put on display as a demonstration of her extravagance.
In 1988, the band Big Audio Dynamite wrote this song about Imelda Marcos and her enormous collection of shoes. Click below to hear:
2000 ShoesArtist: Big Audio Dynamite
Phillipine star greedy girl Took the money to buy the world First a little then the lot Others’ needs were soon forgot Heard you like a love song This here one is just for you In keeping with your taste we hope It’s called 2000 shoes
Never had a conscience Or any moral views Even any kind of taste Just 2000 shoes If I had the world to sell Could strike a deal with you I know you haven’t got the cash Just 2000 shoes
Catwalk at the embassy Supplied by human rights Qadahafi and George Hamilton Mao Tse Tung and disco lights
Never had a conscience Or any moral views Even any kind of taste Just 2000 shoes If I had the world to sell Could strike a deal with you I know you haven’t got the cash Just 2000 shoes 2000 shoes
Phillipine star greedy girl Took the money to buy the world First a little then the lot Others’ need were soon forgot Heard you like a love song This here one is just for you In keeping with your taste we hope It’s called 2000 shoes
So here it is Imelda Sorry it’s the blues Would have done it different If I were in your shoes
Never had a consience Or any moral views Even any kind of taste Just 2000 shoes If I had the world to sell Could strike a deal with you I know you haven’t got the cash Just 2000 shoes 2000 shoes
The world's best-known shoe collector, former Philippine First Lady Imelda Marcos, has opened a museum in which most of the exhibits are her own footwear.
But that wasn’t the end of the story. In 2001, Imelda returned to Manila in the Philippines, reentered politics (although still facing corruption charges for looting the national coffers for over 20 years), and opened a shoe museum to house some of her shoe collection. “They went into my closets looking for skeletons, but thank God, all they found were shoes, beautiful shoes,” a smiling Mrs. Marcos said that year, wearing a pair of locally made silver shoes for the day. The exhibits include shoes made by such world-famous names as Ferragamo, Givenchy, Chanel and Christian Dior, all size eight-and-a-half.
“More than anything, this museum will symbolise the spirit and culture of the Filipino people. Filipinos don’t wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty,” she said.
Imelda Marcos is a classic example of a person who, when life hands you lemons, you make lemonade.
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
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