Saying Congress spends like drunken Sailors is an insult to Sailors.
At least Sailors spend their OWN money....
Sailors also get something for their money, and lest anyone forget, they also spent years at sea working hard, catching wales, trading goods, and defending the oceans to improve other peoples lives, not like these blood-sucking leeches doing the will of wall street, who think that trading CDSs is somehow a productive enterprise.
NavyCanDo given you a big DITTO on that one. About $373 a month of my own money if I remember right. And if payday was falling a few days after pulling away from a port like Naples or Barcelona, you often went to loan sharks on the ship who would charge you between 25% to 50% interest. It was brutal, yes, but to pull into ports like those with no money was worse.