Community | October 01, 2011 | 79 comments

22nd richest person on the Hill, Denny Rehberg, now bullying kids for their lunch money.

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attilatheblond
"Rep. Dennis Rehberg (R-MT), who’s expected to face Sen. John Tester (D) in the Montana Senate race next year, is worried that some families who receive federally-subsidized lunches may be gaming the system and therefore bilking you out of your hard-earned taxpayer dollars.

It’s about waste, fraud and abuse, he suggests. But Democrats say it’s about something else: A Republican looking to scrimp on a program that benefits the least fortunate of all Americans, poor children, while he fights to protect subsidies for multi-billion dollar oil companies.

Rehberg is fond of looking to the nation’s education subsidies to find extraneous money that can be cut. Back in April, he landed in some hot water after he said that Pell Grants were the same as welfare, a comment he quickly walked back after public outcry back home in Big Sky Country.

But even in the walking back, there was evidence of Rehberg’s concern that taxpayer money earmarked for making it easier for people without a lot of income to get an education is place where cuts need to be made. Pell Grants are “are an attempt to do the right thing,” he said, and “the difficulty is, often times a program is so successful that it grows and grows and grows and grows.

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Brain off in too many directions on this to write all of what I want to say, but I will point out a couple of things right now:

Denny is reading from the script the Koch brothers and RNC handed him without thinking even a little: In Montana, in rural counties that tend to vote for his drunken ass time after time, the majority of kids get subsidized lunch. AND the majority of services in all those small towns rely on various grants which are based, in part, on the percentage of kids in the local schools get subsidized lunch! He doesn't have the brains to tell the script writers that this is NOT a good can of worms to open up in Montana.

As too why the need for Pell grants and other help to people trying to get educations, he complains that the programs keep growing, but never once mentions why that need increases: more Americans are falling into poverty and the middle class wage earners are losing real wages all the damn time! It's the ECONOMY, stupid!

Much as the $$ for his senate campaign here will come in from across the nation, it is still a local race between him and Tester and this issue will bite his ass hard. It will bring in more out of state $$, but some of us are gonna be sure that MONTANA knows what he is attacking.

And, after working to sue firemen for his failed business venture of houses on a high, windy platue under the airport flight path, now he is really going to shake kids down for their lunch money? Seriously? He just let the RNC script writers make him into a literal cartoon of the dim witted school yard bully who is all brawn and no brain, no heart, no soul.

By the way, officials were in town recently telling the county that they had a bunch of senior citizens daring to eat at the subsidized, once a week senior lunch who really don't qualify and/or aren't paying their $10 a month.

The GOP is trying to condition everyone into accepting their demonetization of anyone who gets federal dollars. Well, anyone but huge corporations anyway. Denny is always there, voting to defend federal dollars going to industries which are not floundering.
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79 comments // 22nd richest person on the Hill, Denny Rehberg, now bullying kids for their lunch money.

  • Wetdog
  • RevKen
    • +3
      RevKen  
    • Education is not a cost to taxpayers, it is an investment in our future. Education reduces every problem we have. Educating our youth today is essential if we want to be productive tomorrow.

      Building schools and taking care of students is easier and cheaper than building prisons and taking care of criminals. I am not saying every person that is not educated is a criminal but educated people are less likely to become criminals.

    • 8 months ago
  • Wetdog
    • +1
      Wetdog  
    • RevKen:

      I'm sorry, you don't understand. These people are not the LEAST bit interested in investing in our future. These people are not the LEAST bit interested in who they hurt or social justice. These people are not the LEAST bit interested in environmental damage or any other kind of damage. These people are not the LEAST bit interested in freedom or liberty or protection of human rights----they are ONLY interested in THEIR freedom and THEIR rights. These people are not the LEAST bit interested in or grateful to America or the people such as those who have worked and sacrificed to provide them with all that they have.

      All they want is to wring every single penny they possibly can out of everyone and everything they possibly can. They want everyone ELSE to make the sacrifices and do the work so that THEY can live a live of luxury, license and indolent ease.

      They have only one creed, MORE, MORE, MORE for ME, ME, ME!!!

    • 8 months ago
  • attilatheblond
    • +1
      attilatheblond  
    • Wetdog:

      While I know RevKen is right re what education is, I agree with Wetdog: the Hoarder Class and their middle manager henchmen Congresshos do not care for anyone's future but theirs.

      And frankly, from my observations, they want us all dumb and probably in prisons. They don't need much in the way of domestics to run their households and grow a little food. The rest of us are just annoyances to them.

    • 8 months ago
  • RevKen
    • +1
      RevKen  
    • Wetdog:

      I am sorry that you did not understand that I am against the way the GOP looks at education. They are for cutting education. If you read anything in my post that defends their position you might want to re-read my post.

    • 8 months ago
  • Wetdog
    • 0
      Wetdog  
    • RevKen:

      Not at all revken---I was being a bit sarcastic, but attilatheblond got it exactly right to whom I was referring(and I LOVE her definition)----The Hoarder Class.

    • 8 months ago
  • ACSUS
  • RevKen
  • VoyagerFilms
  • attilatheblond
  • PIANORAMA
  • attilatheblond
    • +2
      attilatheblond  
    • PIANORAMA:

      Seems more of the diversion, division, denigration tactics:

      Divert attention to the massive frauds the Hoarder Class has engaged in with Congressional help

      Divide people up and keep them busy fighting each other re crumbs and non-issues

      Denigrate the people who are always getting the shaft in America by the Hoarder Class and their henchmen.

      Good to see you, as always, pianorama! So much to follow this evening! Glad you're here.

    • 8 months ago
  • figgdimension
  • attilatheblond
  • figgdimension
  • attilatheblond
  • Saladin
    • +2
      Saladin  
    • Take from the poor and give to the rich, the new Republican campaign slogan.

      If a line like that doesn't end up in a Democrat ad, then they don't know what the fuck they're doing anymore. Time to call a spade a spade.

    • 8 months ago
  • attilatheblond
  • totally_dilapidated
  • ACSUS
  • Wetdog
  • ACSUS
  • ampersand
    • +5
      ampersand  
    • Economic globalization: let the kids sell themselves on the street corners just like in every other third world country if they want something to eat.
      The poor have no future; how dare they aspire to daily nutrition.

      (Please Gaia, let me come back in a few hundred years when things have profoundly changed one way or the other; give me a healthy planet, or one without these psychotic monkeys on it.)

    • 8 months ago
  • David_H
  • ampersand
    • +2
      ampersand  
    • David_H:

      Long term social consequences don't have much standing in the way we're built.

      Reading a story just now how Citibank is going to follow Bank of America in charging people fees to access their OWN money in their OWN checking accounts, sparked an immediate knee-jerk fantasy in me; urge everyone to pull out all their money from the banks.

      Although most middle class folks don't have enough money in the banks now, according to the banks---thence bank's new eagerness to charge folks to access what little they have; such an action would very likely still have some scary consequences.

      But as you see, I'm not exempt from these odd instant impulses, either.

      Let's ripe the tablecloth off the table and see what happens...at the very least, it will liven-up this somewhat depressing dinner party.

    • 8 months ago
  • David_H
  • ampersand
    • +1
      ampersand  
    • David_H:

      Societies are held together by commonly shared bonds of understanding and trust.

      When shared myths die, and trust evaporates, it all falls apart faster and more thoroughly than having barbarians at the gate.

      I'm sure that's frightening for most, but it's not something they really get to vote on.
      It's a long accretion of missed moments, glimpses of the curtains of manipulation pulled back, and a thousand cuts of alienation and betrayal.

      When something isn't working it's time to redesign it or cast it aside.

      Who knows? Maybe this is the era we can personally make use of Arthur C. Clark's phrase: "Childhood's End"

    • 8 months ago
  • kennymotown
  • David_H
  • zoomy1
  • Wetdog
    • +4
      Wetdog  
    • kennymotown:

      Kenny---they don't have any inkling of history. Wasn't it either Bachman or Palin who didn't know who Paul Revere was?

      I had one tell me that Revolutionary Soldiers were fighting to defend our rights under the constitution. The constitution was not written and adopted until 5 years after the end of the Revolutionary War.

      I doubt if any of them could even locate France or Russia on a map-----let alone tell you who Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, or Czar Nicholas II and his family were, or what happened to them.

    • 8 months ago
  • HarukoHaruhara
    • +8
      HarukoHaruhara  
    • Wetdog:

      Palin was the one who thought Paul Revere was warning the British and Bachmann was the one who thought the U.S. Founding Fathers "worked tirelessly to end slavery."

      And Perry was the one who thought Texas has a right to secede.

    • 8 months ago
  • kennymotown
  • kennymotown
  • kennymotown
  • David_H
  • Wetdog
  • Wetdog
    • +3
      Wetdog  
    • David_H:

      That is what the Civil War was all about. Preserving the Union. That is why the very first words of the US Constitution are......."We the people, in order to form a more perfect Union................"

    • 8 months ago
  • David_H
  • Wetdog
    • +3
      Wetdog  
    • David_H:

      -------" Is the nation prepared to keep a secessionist Texas in the union by force of arms?"-----

      Yes. And it did.

      ------" What does either say of the professed sanctity of liberty?"-------

      Slaves were very pleased with the result.

      ------" Why should the people of today be bound by agreements made centuries ago?"---

      You mean the US Constitution? Everyone who joins the military or holds a public office swears to uphold the constitution from all enemies, foreign or domestic. If you support the enemies of the US Constitution, then you are a traitor.

      ------" Do you see the founders of America has heroes or as traitors? "----

      That depends on which side you were on. I think they were heros. King George III and his subjects thought they were traitors and would have hung them if they could have.

      --------" What granted them the right to secede from the British Empire while Texans should be denied the right to secede from the American Empire?"--------

      Because they they defeated the British army and navy sent to prevent them seceding. Texans did not defeat the army and navy sent to prevent them from seceding.

      ------" Do you think it would be a good thing to repeal NAFTA? Or should Americans into perpetuity be saddled with the greed of their ancestors?"--------

      NAFTA is not part of the US Constitution. If you want to be oppossed to NAFTA, that's fine. You are entitled to oppose NAFTA all you want. You can even get it repealed if you want to.

    • 8 months ago
  • HarukoHaruhara
  • Wetdog
  • thedirtman
  • HarukoHaruhara
  • thedirtman
  • attilatheblond
  • thedirtman
  • ACSUS
  • ACSUS
    • +1
      ACSUS  
    • thedirtman:

      How nice, you found a group picture of this years Helena Montana Junior High School graduating Class.

      I understand there were more students, but the MORTUARY refused to let the camera man in to take pictures. Go figure.

    • 8 months ago
  • zoomy1
  • attilatheblond
  • ACSUS
  • attilatheblond
  • ACSUS
    • +2
      ACSUS  
    • attilatheblond:

      That was the point, it was a "silly" thing. It appeared you took the comment far too seriously for what it was, a cute little aside to the article we are posting to.

      if I am going to have to check to see if somebody might be offended by something i post because of some obscure connection, it is going to be a very difficult time in my life indeed.

      If you like, we can change Helena to Boseman, maybe there everyone is happy and frolicking and they will not be offended if by some chance in a billion someone living there happens upon this blog.

      ya think?

    • 8 months ago
  • attilatheblond
  • ACSUS
  • Wetdog
    • +3
      Wetdog  
    • ACSUS:

      Montana was picked to be the example of money being wasted on real people.

      Money that could be much better spent on unreal people. Like corporations.

      Since the Supreme Court has now decided that corporations are people----the unreal people are more real than the real people. Each corporation represents more unreal people than real people since each real people only represents one person. So, since the unreal people in the corporations are now real people---and the real people are in corporations, the real people who are persons become unreal people because they they are not in corporations. Therefore, if you want to do something about hunger and poverty, you need to give money to corporations because they are now real people and not give money or food to real people because they will just become lazy and not create new jobs................if you give the money instead to the unreal people who are now real people because they are a corporation, they will not spend the money or eat the food but use it instead to create new jobs.

      That is why we have so many jobs we can't find enough real people fill them.

    • 8 months ago
  • ACSUS
  • attilatheblond
  • bike10
  • attilatheblond
    • +3
      attilatheblond  
    • To be fair to Denny, he was not the drunk that crashed that boat into Montana. He was one of the guys too drunk and stupid to be entrusted with the wheel that night.

    • 8 months ago
  • HarukoHaruhara
  • attilatheblond
    • +2
      attilatheblond  
    • HarukoHaruhara:

      You have a point. But Denny does so much we can actually prove, I resist going to places we can't actually make the case for.

      He is a known drunk. That much is verified fact. All ya gotta do is tag along when he is 'home'.

    • 8 months ago
  • HarukoHaruhara
  • attilatheblond
  • attilatheblond
    • +3
      attilatheblond  
    • Hey Denny, how'd ya get that rich? You ain't exactly bright and being a land owner doesn't put money in the bank. Just who is it you actually represent? It sure isn't the folks in Montana.

      Ask for a snow shovel for Christmas cuz wintering in D.C. just isn't in the cards for you anymore.

      Pick on the Billings fire department for answering calls instead of babysitting your empty housing development and now shaking down kids? My my, even the fools will start to ask just what motivates you.

    • 8 months ago
  • HarukoHaruhara
    • +4
      HarukoHaruhara  
    • Oh, man, I was gonna post a photo of the boat crash. You beat me to it!!

      Denny and his buddies got plastered on their boat and then crashed into a rocky shore at 3 a.m. at like 50 mph. Denny's friend, a Republican State Senator, took the fall for being the driver, but no one knows who was actually driving. Everyone refused to talk to the cops after the crash ... like they were waiting to "get their story straight" or something.

      One of the guys in the boat suffered massive head injuries and spent weeks in a coma, then he and his family declined to sue for damages. Where does that guy work now -- oh, he got a job at the Montana Republican Party headquarters. I wonder who paid his medical expenses?

      The whole thing smacked of a massive cover-up and payoff. I'm personally convinced Denny was driving that boat.

    • 8 months ago
  • attilatheblond
    • +1
      attilatheblond  
    • HarukoHaruhara:

      At least in the boat crash, nobody died, unlike the drunk driving crash the aid of former Gov Martz was involved in. The then sitting guv visited her injured aid in the hospital, taking home his blood stained clothes and washing them herself, before law enforcement got to process that crucial evidence. The other guy in that accident didn't make it to the hospital and went directly to a slab.

      Too many drunks, too little real law enforcement.

    • 8 months ago
  • KB723
    • 0
      KB723  
    • Image
    • I always like to use Google Images to find useable pics for articles... Just right click on the pic and save to your desktop... =) Be sure the image is a JPEG, you can do that by clicking on the image... It will show the image, then right click and look for "View image info" it will say there if the pic is JPEG or a Bitmap image... =)

    • 8 months ago
  • attilatheblond
    • +2
      attilatheblond  
    • KB723:

      Had to do it differently. Instructions given to me here never work for me here and I have been posting pics for a decade now. Go figure. But I found a way that works, and a picture that is much more about the REAL Rehberg: drunken boat wreck.

    • 8 months ago
  • KB723
  • attilatheblond
  • attilatheblond
    • +1
      attilatheblond  
    • KB723:

      My ol great-great-aunt used to say men with that sort of hairline 'were tools of the debbil!' I used to write it off as old fashioned superstition. Now, I need to apologize to the old girl's shade. She had a point.

    • 8 months ago
  • attilatheblond
    • +2
      attilatheblond  
    • again, I ask, how do I avoid a linked image from showing up when I post link to news item? The options some kind soul mentioned before just do not appear when I am on Current/

    • 8 months ago
  • KB723
    • +2
      KB723  
    • attilatheblond:

      Look for the image you want and save it to your desktop... You will need to "Edit" this post... When you do that it will ask if you want to change the image you currently have posted, so click on that... A window should pop up asking if you want an image or a video... Click on the Browse button and look for your picture on the desktop, let me know if you have any more need for Help...

      BTW I hope you folks vote this clown out of office.... =)

    • 8 months ago
  • HarukoHaruhara
  • Leen61
    • +5
      Leen61  
    • Another Koch whore showing how the "grassroots" tea party is looking out for the little guy. What a crock of shit that is!

    • 8 months ago
  • attilatheblond
    • +3
      attilatheblond  
    • Leen61:

      If we work this well, it will cost him. Even the more 'prosperous' ranchers in much of the state only actually claim income that puts them where income taxes would kick in. All else is the family ranch corporation. Everything they use comes out of the corporation column. So most all of those kids are in the various programs.

      And I am starting a one woman campaign to raise awareness among the mostly GOP county officials in many counties about just what this will cost them. So many programs they rely on are based on the ratio of kids in the lunch program/kids enrolled in school. The idiot petty pols have no idea just what sort of funding they are gonna have to do without!

      Where/when do GOP pols EVER look at the massive fraud that the MIC/DOD has running?

      Racing past hundreds of billions in MIC and Big Oil/Big Nuclear subsidies and fraud to pick up some school lunch money. The Hoarder Class bosses have stepped into some sticky stuff. Our job is to make sure it tracks back to their fancy rugs.

    • 8 months ago
  • Leen61
    • +5
      Leen61  
    • attilatheblond:

      Keep up the good work, attila. These creeps need to be exposed for the frauds they are. They don't even know what they're shilling for. The richest of the rich have bought this country for their own use. They are the 21st century robber barrons.

    • 8 months ago
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