Baltimore Braces for Trial of Mayor Dixon, Accused of Stealing from Needy Kids

Can we claim the congress as dependents on our tax returns starting this year?

You are totally correct, if it had been a Republican you can bet your last dollar that this would have been the leading banner of the piece.

You mean the culture of POLITICAL corruption. Not just Democratic, the Republicans are Just as Guilty of this type of thing. It seems that when some people get up to a certain level of Power their vision of what is right seems to get blurred. I respect ANY politician who is honest and sincere and always strives to do what is right for the entire country without adding useless pork barre AND Stays honestl. Only a Village Idiot would accuse an ENTIRE group for something a few Bad Apples do. FAIR IS FAIR.

Seems to be a pattern here:

"Democrat" Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA) is a ten-term member of Congress, representing California’s 35th congressional district. She is a senior member of the House Financial Services Committee. Rep. Waters’ ethics issues stem from a meeting she arranged between officials at the Department of Treasury and OneUnited Bank, a bank with which she has financial ties. Rep. Waters was included in CREW’s 2005 and 2006 congressional corruption reports for unrelated matters.
http://www.crewsmostcorrupt.org/summaries/mwaters.php

"Democrat" Representative Charles B. Rangel failed to report hundreds of thousands of dollars in income and assets on his financial disclosure forms for 2002 through 2006, including tens of thousands of dollars in rental income from a Harlem brownstone he sold in 2004, according to records filed this month with the clerk of the House of Representatives.
http://www.narbosa.com/2009/08/charles-rangel-should-be-in-jail-right.html

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A federal jury convicted a former Louisiana congressman Wednesday of taking bribes on 11 of 16 counts in a case in which agents found $90,000 in his freezer.

Former Rep. William Jefferson, a "Democrat" who had represented parts of New Orleans, was accused of accepting more than $400,000 in bribes and seeking millions more in exchange for brokering business deals in Africa.

It took jurors five days to reach a decision after an eight-week trial. Most of the trial was government testimony. The defense wrapped up its case in a matter of hours.

This is what the politicians do, when they aren't stealing or taking bribes: pass programs that give hand outs but keep the disadvantaged from raising themselves out of their situations. That way they are kept dependent on the programs the thieving politicians pass to keep the dependent, strengthening the power and hold they have on the Party faithful.

At a League of Municipalities conference in New Jersey a while back, then Federal Prosecutor gave a seminar on fighting political corruption and stated: "If someone comes up to you with an envelope full of money, and it's not your mother, it is us." These idiots are so greedy we saw 44 politicians, rabbis and others do the "Perp" walk when they were arrested for accepting money handed to them in an envelope. How do we vote for these thieves? Are we so delusional we believe their lies again and again? Most aren't in it to do good. They are in it to give the illusion of good while robbing from the citizenry.

and now we know how they do it!

Yep and she has 7 lawyers! Who said helping the poor did'nt pay? I wonder if she's paying them with gift cards?

William posts an excellent point. I would just add, the same can be said for the Democrat party. The black community has been voting Dem for decades and it has not helped them one bit. Welfare and section 13 housing are not helpful and in fact only cause poor people to stay poor. Stop voting Democrat and vote for those individuals who have a track record of helping people rise out of poverty and succeed without the govt help.