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"Last week, a report by the New York Times charged that Rangel had helped bury a Senate proposal that would have raised taxes on a businessman who had pledged a $1 million donation to the City College center." The building would be named after Rangel.
" The Times piece described a Feb. 12, 2007, meeting at the Carlyle Hotel in New York City. It said Nabors Industries Ltd. (NBR) Chief Executive Eugene Isenberg, Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau and Rangel discussed Isenberg's financial support for the City College center.
According to the Times, Rangel and Isenberg then moved across the room where they discussed with Kenneth J. Kies, a lobbyist for Nabors, Rangel's opposition to a Senate proposal that would raise taxes on Nabors. "
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
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Who cares about Rangel having a school named after him, why don't you investigate the torture going on in Guantanamo and Abu Graib, why don't you investigate the multi- million dollar bonuses for Wall street golden boys who gambled and lost other peoples money, or the CEOs who made bad decisions yet still get paid multi million dollar bonuses? Or the reason most developed countries have had practically free higher education and health care for over 30 years and we haven't. There are so many bigger fish to fry than Rangel!!!
The importance is: he was willing trade "off-shore" tax breaks (i.e. depriving the government of revenue) for his ego.
The point is why "watch" the "little criminals" rather than the "big criminals" which cost society much more? For example, Cheney and the CEOs of oil contractors because of their decisions in our name and with our tax dollars, we have bombed and totally destroyed Iraq and Afghanistan costing us trillions of dollars in present and future military costs, close to 5000 dead in combat, several thousand more dead in suicides due to moral guilt, about 300,000 serious injuries that will cost the tax payer billions in future health care costs and that's just on our side... on the Iraqi side we have murdered millions, injured seriously several million, over a third children, and displaced from their homes several million more totally devastating the infrastructure for clean water and electricity in the process, because of decisions made by Cheney and Oil execs....who will pay for the damage we imparted on the Iraqi people? And what did we get out of it? More terrorism and more debt, and more of both to come in the future, and not even revenge on Bin Laden (if he was truly responsible 9/11 which I highly doubt given the evidence) ...Rangel is nothing compared to Cheney...the point is start at the top and work your way down on the "watch" stuff that makes much more "common sense".
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