Buried deep inside Mike Johnsonโs short-term government funding bill is a ๐ฐ๐ผ๐ป๐ด๐ฟ๐ฒ๐๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป๐ฎ๐น ๐ฝ๐ฎ๐ ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ถ๐๐ฒ โ the first since 2009. If approved this week, lawmakers will get an annual pay raise as high as $6,600. Outrageous!
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It is another way to punish public workers, by taking their rightful paychecks right before Christmas.
How do these sheeple sleep at night?
I can't think of another group who deserve a pay raise less than the dysfunctional mess we call Congress.
When the minimum wage goes up, we can talk. Then they will have accomplished an act of public service...what they are hired to do.
And ๐dems who supported this
For the votes mandating their presence in DC constitutionally, (war, budget) they can fly in and use their Fedgov per diem.
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A few of them would only get a third of their salary, IF THAT.
I was trying to be optimistic.
Doesn't work well with these fraudsters.
Need to get rid of Citizens United
How about those golden fleecing representatives increats SS benefits $5000 per year? The biggest question is: WHY do voters keep electing these same people?
I just posted about this. I am pissed. Everyone else on the gov payroll is getting a 2.5% cost of living increase. I mean what the hell!!!
Would you run for office?
Of course not. Itโs a lousy job. Your family gets attacked. You have little real power. Everyone hates you.
We are losing out on lots of potential talent by making the job so lousy
Imagine how bad our cops would be if they made $22,000 a year
So MAGAT politicians vote for raises & expensive healthcare for themselves while trying to end or defund Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, Snap, & welfare. And vote against raising minimum wage.
Does any other industry do this? Hire people with no experience and start them at $174k with benefits?
true - but an extra $6k a YEAR is not creating any more rich people
the reason politicians get rich while in office is the insider trading in the stock markets - because they see privileged information you never see or they see it first.
the congress people who are honest (there are a bunch) count on the salary to be able to live - they are NOT all rich people
the rich ones do the stock market to get rich - penalize them
with a rule on stock trading
F U C K THEM ALL
President-Elect Musk killed it!
Unus pro omnibus, omnes pro uno
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just love America don't they....
Been rubbing their greedy
little apparatus together
since
The dictator donny Elon Putin Alliance
Herr Tweets
at 3am whilst on Golden throne
spreading
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hoping it's enough
to take her down
in one swift grab
is he
Defund Elon Now!
raise
Hmm - democracy vs eggs
And the winner is โฆ
EGGS!
And we arenโt talking IVF
Overrunning the Capitol is starting to make sense. But weโre better than that.
I think about that quote every day now.
โSocial Security and Medicare are both managed by funds walled off from the rest of the federal budget. They contribute $0 to the deficit, $0 to the national debt. They are earned benefits we paid for, like health insurance or pensions. What the GOP proposes is theft.โ
They were SUPPOSED to be walled off. But Bush and GOP pillaged them.
That's why they are trying to increase minimum retirement age or get rid of it all together -- so Americans don't realize how much they STOLE from money WE paid into the program.
https://www.cbpp.org/research/food-assistance/house-republicans-proposals-could-take-food-away-from-millions-of-low
Republicans call that a full days work.
Page 2 of this report from CRS. The continuing resolution would strike one line prohibiting the automatic COLA from taking effect.
https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/RS/97-1011
more money for me, a concept of a plan for thee. ๐ค
Hockey- fighting
Congressional pay- confidential stock tips and insider trading
Pop their bubble.
The worst part is they cannot be trusted to vote for anything not in their own self-interest.
Now, it'd help if the minimum wage was increased, but for DC, 4% over 15 years is nothing. It'll help lawmakers who do not take PAC money.
So...January 6, 2025?
And I think that's one of the issues leading to Elon's tweet. But also, Elon's a fascist so idk.
At least that is the way I read it.
Sweet for some
$7.25 ๐คจ
Yeah. What I could do with another hundred K in my annual bank accountโฆ.
Perfectly acceptable for all venal politicians.
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