It’s our money, Senator Schumer, and we have a right to question a stimulus package that will not stimulate the economy. Fish food, golf carts and redecorated government offices do nothing for the average American suffering from the recession. The fact is that the billions in the package will not create jobs but will go to social service programs that already exist and to industries that require professionals to complete contracts. These pros already have jobs so where’s the stimulus? Banks aren’t lending money to the middle class who’ve made this country great.

Question # 1 to the senator:

Do you feel any responsibility for causing that IndyBank failure in California because of your inappropriate interference?

This is an excerpt of a letter from the federal bank regulator:

The immediate cause of the closing was a deposit run that began and continued after the public release of a June 26 letter to the OTS and the FDIC from Senator Charles Schumer of New York. The letter expressed concerns about IndyMac’s viability. In the following 11 business days, depositors withdrew more than $1.3 billion from their accounts.

Question# 2:

Whatever happened to your senatorial aides, Katie Barge and Lauren Weiner who were caught trying to steal Michael Steele’s identity in 2004 by obtaining his credit report? This crime is a felony and subject to fines and a jail sentence. I know they were fired, NO- they resigned and plea bargained to a misdemeanor and were sentenced to community service. Their attorney fees were paid by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. Funny, they used a DSCC credit card to steal Steele’s report. Who authorized that?
How come there was no uproar in the media and outrage at this treatment of the black Lieutenant Governor of Maryland? NAACP, where were you? Never mind, right? Steele’s a Republican and doesn’t deserve the adoration given Barack Obama.

Senator Schumer, since you took office in 1998, I’ve seen no significant improvement in the lives of New Yorkers. We are still the highest taxed state in the nation. You belong on a lot of committees but that benefits your resume not ours. Sorry, Chuck. It’s time to go.

Rep. Charlie Rangel has served nineteen terms in Congress and is a very rich man-not that there’s anything wrong with that-but he didn’t start out rich. Working for the taxpayers who pay their taxes can be very lucrative especially when you can avoid paying what you owe. As you can see from the video, Rangel doesn’t like answering questions about his own finances. He’s the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee which means he should know something about money since he writes the tax laws! What kind of excuse can we use to get his exemptions?

Representative Charles B. Rangel has earned more than $75,000 in rental income from a villa he has owned in the Dominican Republic since 1988, but never reported it on his federal or state tax returns, according to a lawyer for the congressman and documents from the resort.

He is also being investigated for improper use of four rent-stabilized apartments, including making one his campaign office. And his use of congressional stationery to raise money for a City University of New York (CUNY) center named after him is being probed. 

The New York Post reports that Rangel's use of a House of Representatives parking garage "for years as free storage space for his old Mercedes-Benz" may break House rules, and may mean he owes still more in taxes.

And Rangel has a habit of making remarks that can only be called, “stupid’. At a funeral for a black police officer slain accidentally by friendly fire, Rangel fanned the racial flames by snidely saying that the President should be careful “not to run around East Harlem unidentified.” Even Mayor Bloomberg was outraged and criticized his comment.

I’ll never forget how appalled I was in 2005 when in a television interview; he more or less accused our soldiers of deliberately killing innocent Iraqi women and children. In another interview, with radio host Steve Malzberg, he called the Iraq war "the biggest fraud ever committed on the people of this country. ... This is just as bad as the 6 million Jews being killed."

At a town hall meeting of the Congressional Black Caucus, Mr. Rangel said to the cheering crowd, "George Bush is our Bull Connor." The audience cheered without once acknowledging that Bull Connor was a Democrat. As was George Wallace, Lester Maddox and other segregationists.

Nineteen terms is long enough for any politician who hasn’t made significant improvements in the lives of his constituents. Time to go, Charlie.