Political Quotes

“today the headline in The New York Times reads: ``Iraqis are out of jobs, but payday still comes.'' With the administration's and the President's blessings, 200,000 Iraqis, employees of the government ministries and government-owned companies, are being paid $20 a day for no-show jobs. They do not work. They are getting paid $20,000 a day by the American taxpayers. They do not work. Let me read from the article. The story describes how ``mechanics linger listlessly around machines that don't run; clerical employees wait for assignments that never come. Most don't even bother to show up at all, except on payday,'' to collect their $20. There are 200,000 Iraqi people being paid $20 a day for no-show jobs. Now, I come from Chicago, and I know a couple party bosses in Chicago that would be really envious about 200,000 getting paid $20 a day for no-show jobs. They do not have to do anything, and they do not have to show up except for payday. What is interesting is if we do the math, these families in Iraq are getting about $1,000, equal to what we are asking for the children and their working parents here in America; for hardworking people who pay taxes to get as a child tax credit the same that this Iraqi citizen who has never worked, is not working, is getting, with the American taxpayers footing the bill for $1,000 for their no-show job.”