That's a new idea.
No pensions, no benefits, no compensation increases. Put into a bill and let’s vote, up or down.
“I don’t think congressmen should get pensions or cushy healthcare plans,”
Well that is some thing you will not here propaganda news report.
Joe Walsh pings.
Unlike that scumbag Mark Kirk from Ill., the new (R) RINO in the Senate.
Then I hope that his wife has it for the family. If not, he’s not providing properly for his family and shouldn’t be one of our leaders. I think members of Congress should have health benefits, but their benefits certainly shouldn’t be so much better than what their staff has access to.
I have no problem with them having health insurance while in congress. Afterwords is another thing.
And I would be ok with a 401k plan for Congress however a pension is out of the question. They should not be in government long enough to qualify for a pension. And the "congress critter for a day pension for life" is beyond disgusting.
IIRC, the health care package congress has and Democrats there enjoy is not anything like what they crammed down our throats. I am quite sure no panel of political appointees is there to determine when a congressman has passed his "best if used by date" and no such panel has ever pulled the plug on a congressman, denied a congressman a kidney transplant on the basis of age discrimination, performed a late term abortion on a congressman, left a congressman's infant to die in a hospital broom closet, made a congressman wait 6 months or more for treatment, denied a congresswoman a mammogram due to underage, denied Nancy Pelosi a botox injection on the basis of it being a fruitless waste of resources, or even denied Hillary plastic surgery because of its high probability of failure. If congress had the sort of health care they impose on everyone else, we wouldn't have had Democrats sitting in office well into senility or voting from their hospital beds.
Dear Liberals:
Congress is EXEMPT from Obamacare.
The insurance they are getting is not the insurance we’re going to get.
HOW DO THESE LIBERAL NO GOODS KEEPING GETTING ELECTED?????????
As for this new Republican, I hope he’s serious about getting rid of Obamacare and not just pandering.
This becomes silly. So the taxpayers pay for Democrats’ insurance, but not Republicans’? Cut it back or kill it for all Congresscritters equally.
Pinch me or shout to wake me up. WOW, I love this guy.
Well, that’s nice — but of course (and it’s not his fault), we can’t turn down health insurance — the government mandates that we buy it.
He has accountants that pay for it all.
Whoever it was who said that liberalism is a mental disorder has a point. Where in the Constitution is Congress granted any Power to deny millions of Americans affordable health care? This imaginary Power to deny millions of Americans affordable health rests on the bizarre premise that Congress has the Power of health care - an incoherent notion that is an affront to the Constitution as well as to common sense.
The heath care available to members of Congress is the same health care available to most government employees and similar to to the insurance available to employees of large private corporations - it’s insurance proved by private-sector insurers purchased via the bargaining power of a large group.
IMO it’s counter-productive to claim that members of Congress should not be able to participate in this plan - it just makes it that much more difficult for anyone other than the independently wealthy to hold such office.
If there is anything scandalous about the situation, it’s that there is not way for many other citizens to participate in such groups.
"If your conference wants to deny millions of Americans affordable health care, your members should walk that walk," Crowley wrote to incoming House Speaker John Boehner (Ohio) and Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.). "You cannot enroll in the very kind of coverage that you want for yourselves, and then turn around and deny it to Americans who don't happen to be Members of Congress."
Does Crowley have coverage? Or is he simply another slimy 'don't do as I do, do as I say' liberal?
Now I will be looking for every Liberal in Congress to send in more money in the form of personal checks to the IRS. If they don’t think the government has enough money, let them start by sending in more of their money. Obviously, they believe the government knows how to better allocate those dollars than the liberal congressman and senators.
I’ve always found it crazy how nobody ever asked why Buffett and Gates would give their personal fortune’s to a new organization that they had to create and manage when a great institution that they insist we all should be paying more too already exists in the IRS and US Government.
Apparently these two titans of business don’t trust the government to manage and distribute their personal fortunes but they have no problem advocating that you and I need to pay more to this corrupt entity for the “common good”.
Now THIS is a representative!
I’m sure his wife gets it and this is as much a publicity stunt as anything.