Sad truth is...no matter what happens to me and mine or you and yours

whether we are left unemployed, homeless, without insurance, hungry...even though we did our civic duty and voted...the one fact remains.

When we decide that we want to "unemploy" someone in Congress...or the President...they will sail away on a Golden Parachute provided by us.

I am increasingly having a hard time justifying why when the ordinary citizens of this country are steadily losing earned benefits, their retirement, and other perks that our employers used to give us...why we haven't had a serious bipartisan discussion on WHY we are paying OUR employees retirement, insurance, and other perks that we no longer receive ourselves. It is time to cut these parasites off. They are bleeding us dry.

I had a conversation with a kid today who was trying to decide what she was going to do in the future. What kind of jobs were out there. I looked up on the internet the types of jobs that are projected in the next few years and it was fucking depressing. It consisted of a bunch of low paying service jobs. It was depressing to tell an 18-year old that her future was pretty grim and to feel lucky if she could make $10/hour.

Your prospect is made ludicrous when you compare the compensation of Congress to that of any Wall Street Hedge Fund douchebag.

We do directly pay the salary of Congress.

The syntax of your insult is out of whack.

How many more mountains of money do you want to give in tax breaks to Exxon/Mobil? Goldman Sachs? And CEO of GE, didn't they get a rebate? How much is his golden parachute? Where did they get that dough?

It is only because THESE congresscretins are paying off their campaign contributors that they are receiving money...we aren't obligated to pay them.

Constitutionally, we are forced to pay the salary of congress and president.

I agree with your sentiment...100%...but that wasn't my argument.

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That's the point the OP is making.

then all that bloated excess in salary and perks that these leaches make does and should count.

Not to mention that it's thanks to the politicians that the Wall Street douchenozzles are able to rake in the lucre at a literally astronomical rate.

Good job. They both seem to be working for each other.

It is the lucritive book deals with $20 million advances. It is giving speaches for $200,000.00 a speach. It is sitting on Boards of Directors for a few minutes a month and getting $40,000.00 a year. It is all the deals. Most ex-presidents make a lot of money after they leave office. The real golden parachute is provided by big corporations.

They make enough money as it is - they don't need a lifetime stipend (at minimum 3x the national average wage) for life just because they served a few years in the government.

Considering the book deals, corporate boards, think tanks, lobbying firms, and other things that they easily get involved with, there's no reason for any kind of permanent pay for them.

If Republicans are serious, they should jump all over it. Since they want to include Social Security, no reason current pensioners should be exempt.