Posted on 12/20/2025 11:29:05 PM PST by Libloather
they are simply giving you back money YOU paid.
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FYI, your facts are a bit off. Per Chat GPT:
“The last time the U.S. Congress actually received a pay raise that took effect was in January 2009, when members’ annual salary went up by about 2.8% to $174,000. Since then, although an automatic cost-of-living adjustment mechanism exists by law, Congress has each year voted to block those raises, keeping legislative pay unchanged at the 2009 level ever since.”
Also this:
“U.S. foreign aid is a very small part of the overall federal budget.
• In recent years, total U.S. foreign assistance — including economic, humanitarian, and security aid — has generally amounted to **about **1 % to 1.5 % of total federal government spending. For example, in fiscal year 2023 foreign aid represented roughly 1.2 %–1.5 % of total federal outlays.”
If we don’t get our fiscal house in order now, under a cost-cutting President with a Republican Congress, then we’ll end up like Weimar Germany. Then EVERYONE loses.
Too busy insider trading and even beating the best traders on Wall Street and the financial world by 50 points.
True. Merry Christmas and regards. 🙏
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