[detroitdarien]

It does irk me that these guys decide to vote themselves a raise.... for what?

[P-40]

It does irk me that these guys decide to vote themselves a raise.... for what?

I guess they needed the money. One representative couldn't afford high bank fees and had to resort to keeping his cash in the freezer. He even had to hitch rides with the National Guard...I presume because of the high gas prices.

[cripplecreek]

Actually I believe they have a better scam than simply voting for a raise.

They have a set up where the raise is automatic if they don't vote it down. Somebody makes a halfhearted show of wanting to bring it for a vote, the vote fails and they get their raise.

[spintreebob]

Give JJ the Nobel prize for unecomomics.
The teaching of Jesus is personal responsibility for one's own salvation ... in any and all ways you want to interpret the word "salvation".

Jesus rebuked the disciples who complained that the oil was wasted on him and could have been sold and the money given to the poor.

Most notable is the small business tax. Our tax system is structured to favor the Fortune 500 and penalize small business. Yet it is consistently small business that provides new jobs for the unemployed and high wages. It is consistently the Fortune 500 who shiift jobs to the lowest wage worker in the Chinese prison camp or other slave labor shop.

So JJ wants to continue this penalizing of precisely that part of the economy that most benefits his "constituency".

Take the Chicago Defender newspaper as an example. When Sengstacke died, his heirs wanted to keep the paper in the family. But their death tax bill was so horrendous that they had to sell the millionaire business to others to pay the death tax and leave themselves, the heirs, to climb back to financial sufficiency all over again.

Wealth is built over generations. The parents of Bill Gates were the top lawyers in the Northwest. Bill built on their help out of the starting gate. But in too many cases, minorities for whom JJ speaks, such as Sengstacke, are held back by the unfair taxes that JJ hypocritically supports.

Is JJ really ignorant of economics? Or maybe he secretly wants to keep people oppressed so he can continue to be their white media appointed leader. It should be noted that Black media barons like Sengstacke and Johnson did not build JJ. It was the white media that built him into the leader that he became.