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| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 1,796 |
| | Posted: | | | | The median wealth of a House member is $765,010… For a senator it’s $2.38 million.
Yet, incredibly, they still enjoy all of this:
$174,000 salary
Free company car
Free gas
Free parking (even at airports)
Free flights almost anywhere in the world
Per diem travel allowance… up to $3,000 a trip
A month’s paid vacation
3-day work-weeks
Free membership to a top-flight gym
Pension plan and 401K plan
Full retirement benefits (including up to 44% of their six figure salaries) at age 62
Free top of the line health insurance with 10 plans to choose from
Fully covered – even with pre-existing condition
AND THEY VOTE THEMSELVES A RAISE EVERY YEAR AND ARE EXEMPT FROM INSIDER TRADING!!!!!!! HOW WRONG IS THIS???
Makes me madder than h _ _ _ !
Being a member of Congress is the most lucrative “Public Service” job in the world. Are our representatives officially out of touch with the real America? Should Congress live like the rest of us? | | | We don't need stinkin' IMDB's errors, we make our own.
Ineptocracy, You got to love it.
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." - Abraham Lincoln |
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 | Blair | | Resistance is Futile! |
| Registered: October 30, 2008 | | Posts: 1,249 |
| | Posted: | | | | I'm surprised they don't ask for an additional "pain and suffering" charge for voters not liking every choice that they make.
There's the saying that those who don't have, want; those who have, want more.
Think of just how unique the job is when it comes to making money. Unless you win the lottery or are born into "old money," everyone has to earn what they have. Whether you are the boss and earn it directly or an employee and earn it through a boss, you have to go after what you want to earn it. In every case, the money comes from offering a product that others are willing to trade their money for. They make the choice to trade for it. If you don't want to pay for food, you can go out and grow/catch/kill it yourself. If you don't want to pay for gasoline/petrol, you can walk.
As the taxpayer, we are the "boss" since we are the ones with the money that they earn. But unlike any other job, those employees get to set their own paychecks and can disagree with the bosses all that they want until they get fired in a few years (not a few days). By then, they can retire.
It's no wonder so many people try their hand at politics. | | | If at first you don't succeed, skydiving isn't for you.
He who MUST get the last word in on a pointless, endless argument doesn't win. It makes him the bigger jerk. | | | | Last edited: by Blair |
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 6,730 |
| | Posted: | | | | Putting aside that this is (obviously) a political thread and therefore not allowed in this forum.
Every country has the politicians it deserves.
Originally the US Senate and Congress were designed to mirror the society. This is basically why there are so many people in them.
Nowadays you don't have "normal" people going into politics anymore and that for a simple reason: It costs a fortune to get elected.
So on the day the American society decided to elect it's representatives not for their personal integrity or expertise, but for their entertainment value they too decided that they wanted to be represented by good-looking crooks with enough money to buy prime-time spots on every station all over the country.
These are (as every good capitalist should) mainly looking for a decent return on investment, means they plunder the country to make them and their sponsors even richer.
So blame yourself but please don't blame the pig for behaving like a pig. | | | It all seems so stupid, it makes me want to give up!
But why should I give up, when it all seems so stupid?
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| Registered: March 19, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 6,018 |
| | Posted: | | | | I thought political threads are not allowed?  |
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| Registered: August 23, 2008 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 1,656 |
| | Posted: | | | | ZOMG POLITICS EVERYONE POSTING IN THIS THREAD NEEDS TO BE BANNED!!1!111111 | | | Reviewer, HorrorTalk.com
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 4,596 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Alien Redrum: Quote:
ZOMG POLITICS EVERYONE POSTING IN THIS THREAD NEEDS TO BE BANNED!!1!111111 Including you...I guess  ....oops...and now me as well . | | | | My WebGenDVD online Collection |
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| Blair | | Resistance is Futile! |
| Registered: October 30, 2008 | | Posts: 1,249 |
| | Posted: | | | |  The cycle must be broken! ..... dang it  | | | If at first you don't succeed, skydiving isn't for you.
He who MUST get the last word in on a pointless, endless argument doesn't win. It makes him the bigger jerk. |
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| Registered: June 21, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 2,621 |
| | Posted: | | | | All I will say is that is why we have "career politicians". The money's too good to leave, and would Newt Gingrich get laid otherwise? Seriously, take away his job and he's a pervert in a raincoat, 70's style! |
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| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Silence_of_Lambs: Quote:
good-looking I don't think that term means what you think it means as I don't see a lot of, what I would call, 'good-looking' people in congress.  | | | No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever.
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Against this power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.
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We will teach it to them again.
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| Registered: May 26, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,879 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting TheMadMartian: Quote:
Quoting Silence_of_Lambs:
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good-looking
I don't think that term means what you think it means as I don't see a lot of, what I would call, 'good-looking' people in congress. I don't either. | | | If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 6,730 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting TheMadMartian: Quote:
Quoting Silence_of_Lambs:
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good-looking
I don't think that term means what you think it means as I don't see a lot of, what I would call, 'good-looking' people in congress. Oh it means what I think it means. It's just that reality sometimes doesn't quite fit an exaggerated example. I probably should have chosen "charismatic" and/or "populist" instead. | | | It all seems so stupid, it makes me want to give up!
But why should I give up, when it all seems so stupid?
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| Registered: March 11, 2009 | | Posts: 211 |
| | Posted: | | | | Political threads? In our site? Apparently it's more likely than we think. |
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