Posted on 09/16/2013 8:56:35 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
Senator John McCain raked in a staggering $176,300.00 to win the gold in the defense contract lobby dollars Olympics, the most of any other senator on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee according to a print outlet in Great Britain. (1) Is this mind blowing amount reverberating in his brain as he tells Congress and the American people, “It would be catastrophic if Congress doesn’t go along” with Barack’s Syria “policy?” Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) who is up for re election next year won the silver with a $127,350 purse, and VA Democrat Tim Kaine pulled in $101,025 to wear the bronze.
Every American needs to read this unbelievable DAILY MAIL article which features correlations between Yes votes cast to go to war last week with their lobby dollars received. The Brit print outlet reports committee members voting to support Obama’s bomb Syria resolution “collected an average of...
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McCain is one of the most corrupt guys to ever sit on our side of the aisle. That 1996 disaster of a Telecommunications Bill was all the work of his being on the take from a handful of telecom companies.
I had a REAL problem casting my vote for him in ‘08 as a result. Only the Obamunist alternative on the ballot (and Sarah) persuaded me to do so.
yep
This is one time I hope the Raytheons, the Lockheed Martins, the Olins, and all the other MIC members don’t get their wish. Sure, there is profit in their supply of materiel to our soldiers, but the soldiers’ lives are not worth one Muslim’s troubles.
They’re just victims of those large donors and the state’s industries they represent, yaknow..
Yeah, that’s it.. they’re just victims, sleazebag victims..
The REAL reason the Left opposes ANY war is that it leaves less Taxpayer $$$$ to be given to the parasitic Class (them).
Those are the ABOVE-the-table amounts.
They don’t include the UNDER-the-table perks.
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If our Congresscritters had any real ethics, they would reveal how much they have deposited in off-shore accounts since becoming Congresscritters. Most Americans would be shocked at the amounts.
Why else would a person spend $Millions to get elected to a job with a salary of $174,000 per year?
With the cost of living in D.C., $174K would put you towards the higher end of a comfortable middle class. Not the life of an elitist princeling that these people live.
The taxpayers provide the funds and Congress provides the bodies. Be sure to join the military so you can fight for Zero and help spread his socialism across the world.
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