Posted on 03/12/2022 9:34:02 AM PST by Browns Ultra Fan
US Speaker of the House and American Oligarch Nancy Pelosi together with Senate Majority Oligarch Charles Schumer passed yet another massive spending bill that seemingly benefited them and not the American middle class.
As part of the $1.5 trillion omnibus spending bill released Wednesday, the $5.9 billion fiscal 2022 Legislative Branch funding portion would substantially boost the office budgets of House members to pay staff more.
This legislation would provide $774.4 million for the Members Representational Allowance, known as the MRA, which funds the House office budgets for lawmakers, including staffer salaries. This $134.4 million, or 21 percent, boost over the previous fiscal year marks the largest increase in the MRA appropriation since it was authorized in 1996, according to a bill summary by the House Appropriations Committee. For paid interns in member and leadership offices, the House would get $18.2 million.
Unfortunately, retirees received a Social Security Cost of Living Adjustment (COLA) of only 5.9%.
This is especially unfortunate given at inflation is growing at 7.9%. If we remove food and energy (two important categories for consumers and retirees), core inflation is growing at 6.4% YoY. As such, Social Security COLA doesn’t even keep pace with CORE inflation, let alone food and energy costs.
In August, Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced staffers’ salaries could exceed those of lawmakers. Members in both the House and Senate, with the exception of leadership, make an annual salary of $174,000. Staffers can make up to $199,300.
The Hill has a nice summary of the latest Pelosi/Schumer Spendapalooza, “Lawmakers feast on pork in omnibus.”
(Excerpt) Read more at confoundedinterest.net ...
and they turn aroudn and assure the public that the public ‘doesn’t really wont to work 40 hours a week anyways, so cuts to their job time should be welcomed” (Yes, they actually said that as millions either lost their jobs under obama, or they had their hours cut massively)
[[Those asshos in the Swamp don’t deserve a friggin’ raise.]]
They get paid well to do nothing much more than sleep with enemy spies-
We have the most expensive politicians that money can buy. That’s a fact.
[[We’re just an endless ATM to them.]]
Adn then they turn aroudn and slam the atm’s in prison with no ail for over a year for peacefully protesting-
They obviously, if this is true, care nothing for the people. If they actually did this, they are going to raise those peoples' salaries to the TRUE inflation rate (which they DO know). I simply do not understand. Why are we not able to stand in line and enlist in the forces to fight this?
They didn’t have anything to do with it. The staffers wrote the whole damn thing and included themselves a 21% raise in it since they knew none of the idiot Democrats would even read it.
> “Every year, the outlaws swing out of the trees, rob the merchants and ride back to Washington D.C. for a glorious feast over the stolen goods, which they may in some small way share with a few peasants, to secure their support.”
A Lawless Society
Daniel Greenfield
SFPPR
June 23, 2012
http://sfppr.org/2012/06/a-lawless-society/
BITCHES !!!
“Pelosi and Schumer with Obama and Biden are US oligarchs.”
McConnell and quite a few GOP Senators also voted for this bill.
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