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Sen. Cornyn Reveals Not One, Not Two, But Three Public Pensions Atop His Salary
National Journal ^ | 06/17/2013 | Shane Goldmacher

Posted on 06/17/2013 3:04:36 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

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It's hard to fight the monumental corruption of the Obama Administration when those fighting it are not exactly "clean".
1 posted on 06/17/2013 3:04:36 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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Cornyn isn’t double-dipping. That would be wrong. He’s TRIPLE-DIPPING and that’s completely different!

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2 posted on 06/17/2013 3:06:55 PM PDT by MeganC (A gun is like a parachute. If you need one, and don't have one, you'll never need one again.)
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I don’t think he’s done anything vaguely illegal. The overpayment in the public sector, especially with pensions for early retirees, is obscene and should be changed, but that’s not really Cornyn’s fault.


3 posted on 06/17/2013 3:07:36 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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But he uses his position in the Senate to further his communist policies. And he used his position in the NRSC to try putting people like Crist and Specter in office.


4 posted on 06/17/2013 3:10:18 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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He fulfilled each position and he reaps the benefits from them. Nothing wrong with that.


5 posted on 06/17/2013 3:11:31 PM PDT by elephantlips
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Did he do the job expected for those pensions? Yes! Case closed. Everyone has the same opportunities that this Senator had and either didn’t do, didn’t want to do the work involved or didn’t have the intellect it takes to do the jobs. Good for him for planning his life he desired. Since rules have changed and the pensions today are not as good starting out. People will have to make decisions knowing this.


6 posted on 06/17/2013 3:11:54 PM PDT by napscoordinator (Santorum-Bachmann 2016 for the future of the Country!)
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How is that unclean? Did he earn those pensions or is he somehow defrauding the government? If the rules say he gets pensions from previous jobs, what's all the hullabaloo about?
7 posted on 06/17/2013 3:11:59 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I'll raise $2million for Sarah Palin's next run. What'll you do?)
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You will make a fine serf.


8 posted on 06/17/2013 3:17:56 PM PDT by jpsb (Believe nothing until it has been offically denied)
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9 posted on 06/17/2013 3:20:04 PM PDT by A.A. Cunningham (Barry Soetoro can't pass E-verify)
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He fulfilled each position and he reaps the benefits from them. Nothing wrong with that.

Oh, please don't confuse anyone with the facts.. You know Cornyn's money and pensions are bad, and should be redistributed to poor people.

10 posted on 06/17/2013 3:22:49 PM PDT by sockmonkey (Of Course I didn't read the article. After all, this is FreeRepublic..)
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Same thing is done in the corporate world.

Speaking from personal experience, with a retired close relative who draws three pensions from three companies. Plus Social Security.

And he earned every dime of it.


11 posted on 06/17/2013 3:24:05 PM PDT by Jedidah
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He accepted it without question, didn’t he?


12 posted on 06/17/2013 3:24:14 PM PDT by patriot08 (NATIVE TEXAN (girl type))
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Yes, and I expect he believed he earned it.


13 posted on 06/17/2013 3:27:16 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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It's hard to fight the monumental corruption of the Obama Administration when those fighting it are not exactly "clean".

Throughout all history before nations fell those on the 'inside' looted the treasuries. It didn't help them much as at the 'crash' their money became basically as worthless as their lives. eg: The French Revolution

14 posted on 06/17/2013 3:27:40 PM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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This is NOTHING compared to what goes on in California. There is nothing illegal at all about most of it. It may show what dummies the public is for electing and re-electing politicians who write perfectly legal laws to feed themselves lavishly at the public trough like this, but it is perfectly legal as long as the public is dumb enough to tolerate it.


15 posted on 06/17/2013 3:28:04 PM PDT by Reddon
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I would never blame anyone for TAKING a sweet deal. But I sure blame those MAKING those sweet deals. Why would you not accept it if it was offered to you?
16 posted on 06/17/2013 3:29:42 PM PDT by Anitius Severinus Boethius (www.wilsonharpbooks.com - New Robin Hood book out!)
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The public can’t really understand all of this — as Obama said of something “it’s above their pay grade”.


17 posted on 06/17/2013 3:31:52 PM PDT by Theodore R. ("Hey, the American people must all be crazy out there!")
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To: SeekAndFind

I have had difficulty understanding what TX see in Cornyn, but I don’t think he has ever lost an election. People just feel comfortable with their “friendly incumbent”.


18 posted on 06/17/2013 3:33:02 PM PDT by Theodore R. ("Hey, the American people must all be crazy out there!")
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Correct!
I am not a big Cornyn fan, but he didn’t invent those retirements, he is taking what we stupid voters allowed our elected politicians to make law. Obviously put in place by our dear Texas Yeller Dog dems in their many years of full house politics.

No way show anyone get anything more than “proportioned” retirement depending on how many years served. It should be changed to “accumulated years” from all public service.

Its hard to see any logical justification where public employee or service retirement should be grossly greater than regular private retirement.


19 posted on 06/17/2013 3:37:31 PM PDT by X-spurt (Republic of Texas, Come and Take It!)
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More than that he’s working on a fourth.


20 posted on 06/17/2013 3:38:48 PM PDT by ZULU ((See: http://gatesofvienna.net/) Obama, do you hear me?)
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