Posted on 06/29/2019 10:53:43 AM PDT by sodpoodle
Letter to my boss .............
I have enjoyed working here these past several years. You have paid me very well and given me benefits beyond belief. Have 3-4 months off per year and a pension plan that will pay my salary till the day I die and then pay my estate one year salary death bonus and then continue to pay my spouse my salary with increases until she or he dies, and a health plan that most people can only dream of having.
Despite this, I plan to take the next 12-18 months to find a new position. During this time, I will show up for work when it is convenient for me. And in addition, I fully expect to draw my full salary and all the other perks associated with my current job.
Oh yes, if my search for this new job proves fruitless, I will be coming back with no loss in pay or status. Before you say anything, remember that you have no choice in this matter. I can, and I will do this.
Sincerely, Every Senator or Congressman running for President in 2020
And, what matters WHICH side of the Uniparty they affiliate with?
At least w/ the Left, one knows it’s not pro-Liberty. Whereas, w/ the (R)N(C), they’d rather have a check-box in the WIN category than a flag-bearer that would vote for ANYTHING w/in the party platform (Snow, Collins, etc.)
Who’s the greater fool? One whom ‘switches parties’, or those that continue to pull the same party lever, having been lied to, stolen from, stabbed in the back, time and time again?
Not only that, but there is the little known fact that 20 plus years ago the government switched from a Civil Service Retirement Plan to Social Security, and under that plan—the Trift Savings Plan, or TSP—government employees were and are given the opportunity to invest in the Stock Market!!
With all the insider trading info Congress critters get, they have no doubt made millions through their TSP plan, in addition to their salaries and other bennies!
They just don’t make Brooklynites like Jackie Gleason any more.
YES! Precinct by precinct. Work with your county party when you can, and get to know, really know, everyone in your precinct. And make sure they know you!
We (as a nation) elected Barry Obummer TWICE! That question just answers itself.
I get to select funds through my TSP, but I have no control over how it is invested. I doubt Congresscritters have that control, either; they’re getting rich through outright insider trading,
Another decent law a judge decided to strike down was the line item veto.
Another decent law a judge decided to strike down was the line item veto.
I don’t know how there was a double post. Any forum programmer worth his salt puts in a time restriction on posts so you can’t post more than once every 30 seconds, for instance. That eliminates double postings. This is one of the few places I go that doesn’t have that restriction.
YEP, we are! This is at the top of my priority list. I have had fits about this for years and can’t get one single solitary individual in or out of Congress to care. I kept an old National Taxpayers Union stat sheet of all the monies owed to the US Treasury from John Kerry, John Edwards, Richard Gephardt and others because of absences from their jobs while running for higher office - 2003-2004.
The law is 2 U. S. Code 39 for the Senate and the House. Edwards owed $63,000+, Kerry owed $90,000+, Gephardt $81,000+.
I can leave this earth happy if someone in DC shows that these people and all others who came after had to repay their salaries while in Congress but were absent because they were looking for a new job!
Is there any one moderator who will bring it up in the debates? I’ve been waiting a long time for it to happen!! I would love to see a more up to date list but I can’t find any. It would include Clinton, obozo, Biden for later years. Hard to think of anyone running for president who wasn’t a Congressional critter and who missed work - GWB comes to mind now but he’s all I can think of at this time. It angers me no end and always has and no doubt will continue to do so.
I retired when I was 70 and I looked for plenty of different jobs in all those years but I never got paid for taking time off to do so.
SUPER! I didn’t know this existed. I do remember when congress critters used to resign their seats when running for higher office but somewhere along the way, that changed and everyone just ran, lost and settled right back into their jobs and offices. How do we begin a “huge outcry”...it would be worth raising a stink over!
I have never approved of this. How am I stupid for not having the dictatorial power to remove them?
I know - I know - Huffpost but there’s more info here regarding the subject I posted about. In 2005 the Senate exempted itself from that law - pretty cute of them! It had been in force for 150 years and never enforced. Guess this country has produced a lot of STUPID constituents. Time to put an end to it.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/why-do-congressional-trua_b_4099363
Didn’t Reagan say that politics was the second oldest profession, with much in common with the first?
What a character.
I knew he was fascinated with the whole UFO thing, but I didn’t know he’d built a ‘flying saucer’ house:
https://www.realtor.com/news/celebrity-real-estate/jackie-gleason-spaceship-party-house/
Yes he was a character. He was interested in UFO’s and the occult, he managed to get Nixon to show him a crashed flying saucer along with the dead aliens according to his ex wife. It really shook him up.
Do we have anyone’s on-record word for that except the ex-wife’s?
It was claimed by his second wife Beverly McKittrick according to the article I had linked up-thread. I’m not aware of anyone else mentioning it.
It’s a famous story in the literature; but I don’t know of anyone else confirming it, either.
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