As they departed the Capitol for the five-week recess, House Republicans nonetheless believed they had a credible case to make for why the opposition should stay in the minority for the final two years of Trump’s presidency.
As they departed the Capitol for the five-week recess, House Republicans nonetheless believed they had a credible case to make for why the opposition should stay in the minority for the final two years of Trump’s presidency.
And get paid like they work 24/7
And get free healthcare they so vehemently deny all US citizens.
I don’t mind their actual base pay, since by becoming a public official you are automatically hated by at least 40% of the population even if you do a good job.
Those getting that healthcare they deny us, even after they leave their job… that is the real slap in the face.
I got a lot of other complaints as well, but the healthcare for life is something that should be a human right.
I mean, don’t they also get retirement pay forever–something else that they’ve sought over the years to deny us?
I looked it up for the specifics.
Short version is they get about 1% of base pay per year served, with a slight bonus once you start to stick around for a long time, like 10 years you get 1.1%, 20 years you get 1.2%.
I’m more concerned with them doing shady stuff back in the private sector where they still have all their political connections with less public scrutiny. I suspect that is the much more lucrative prize.
Indeed. If we count the bribes, I mean “lobbyist gifts”, they get paid about as well as teachers or cancer researchers or whatever SHOULD be paid.
Yet, they do more harm than bad teachers and cancer itself. Make it make sense.
You were probably being rhetorical, but it does make sense, in a way that should provoke revolution. Rich people are paying to make everything worse. The self-serving and shortsighted are happily helping them do it.