I told someone a while back to keep track of their previous and present politicians such that when TSHTF they’ll know where to go to eat because these people will have our money.
Nailed it!
Cutting bennies for the political aristocracy is a big no-no.
“.......Simpson [a DEMOCRAT] compared Social Security to a milk cow with 310 million teats. He also called America’s senior citizens the “greediest generation.”
At some point, soon, we need to push back... HARD.
I wonder how much it would cost if every patriot, all at the same time, would not go to a store and buy ANYTHING for one day? How about 2 days, 3, 4, maybe even a week?
Perhaps we should starve the bastards out of office. NOTHING is ever going to get better until Obama is forced to leave Office.
I know, such a high stake game would hurt us all, but, not one drop of blood would have to be shed.
I’m 62 and I think that makes me a senior citizen. Well, my generation didn’t respond very well to threats and I am sure as hell not going to change.
I am sick of these threats and they need to be quieted one way or another....
Businesses will not like this and I don’t blame then one bit, but I think it’s time for America to go on strike.... oh, and imagine how much money you’ll save. ;>)
Alan Simpson, Republican Senator from Wyoming, 1979 to 1997. His father was also a Wyoming Senator and Governor.
None of these people ever have to learn to live within their means, because they just continue to give themselves more and more benefits. Travel expenses, per diem while in session, and while not. Even salary out of their own campaign funds (each campaign is authorized to give the candidate an equivalent salary of the federal position they're campaigning for from campaign funds, even if they already hold the office. Start your campaign 1 year and 1 day before the general election, you can nab an extra two years of salary from your campaign...)
Congress could pass this tomorrow; they can end benefits for those who already ‘retired’, IE: were thrown out by the taxpayers. They could end their own benefits, but they won't. They tell us that we're bankrupt, yet they still pull down massive salaries and even more massive benefits, yet they say don't look at this, look at means testing for social security, look at trimming the SSI qualifications, look anywhere but at us.
And this is an institutional endemic for all layers of government, right down to your own city council. End it, show us that you're actually serious caretakers of our money, and not the very leeches that we should be most concerned about.
I’d love to see legislation passed requiring the total pay and benefit costs of every current serving US politician and civil servant, and the pension and benefits received by every retired US politician and civil servant, posted on-line. I wouldn’t be surprised to find that Alan Simpson’s struggling to get by on pensions and other benefits approaching or even exceeding seven figures.