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the fact that they see their consistuents as stupid and idiots is very telling indeed......
Not so telling as this post is with regard to your reading skills. Meanwhile, the average Congressional district has more than 700,000 people in it. Do you suppose that none are the most stupid among those, and that from that group, none will show up to deliver some idiot rant at your townhall meeting?
Right. I can only speak for myself, but I voted for Obama and still support him. I can only imagine how many other people you're speaking wrongly and judgmentally of.
Don't expect racism to be so in-your-face about itself. Have you asked yourself yet why pictures of the 15 Representatives who voted for the pay raise were included in the OP? What information pertinent to the actual topic do they convey? None. None at all. The only message that they carry is RACE and one after another, people fell right for it. You think you're not racist? I don't know you, but I wouldn't be so sure. Might want to think some things through for just a bit...
Don't expect racism to be so in-your-face about itself. Have you asked yourself yet why pictures of the 15 Representatives who voted for the pay raise were included in the OP? What information pertinent to the actual topic do they convey? None. None at all. The only message that they carry is RACE and one after another, people fell right for it. You think you're not racist? I don't know you, but I wouldn't be so sure. Might want to think some things through for just a bit...
Wait wait wait, just because the OP posted pictures of the 15 members who voted for a pay raise does not make him racist. Just because someone stated the obvious that 13/15 of them are colored does not make anyone racist here. I think you're a bit quick to call someone a racist, just because I hate Obama does not make me racist. He could be white and I would still hate him.
No other argument can be made for the 100% democrat requested raise, so it helps to raise this false issue to deflect the argument and turn a defense posture into an offensive one.
Ding-dong. Under the law, the pay raise goes into effect automatically unless Congress votes to reject it. The vote to reject has to be scheduled through the Democratoc House leadership to get to the floor. The vote was 402-15 for rejection. There are only 177 Republicans in the House. Do the math...
What responsibility do you have that is 1/37,826th as important as what Congress deals with every day? Has your boss asked you to rescue any global economies lately? How about coming up with a plan to reorganize health insurance for 307 million people...is that in your performace plan? Dealing with any Israeli/Palestinian conflicts after lunch today? How about Iran or North Korea? How about all of those at the same time and then ten times more?
The idea of the Congressional retirement system being golden parachute "fabulous" is uninformed hyperbole.
Congressional Retirement Benefits-Too Generous? (http://www.fa-ir.org/alabama/corrupt/Congressional%20Retirement%20Benefits.htm - broken link)
Dont pretend like they dont have a decent retirement package..
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Originally Posted by saganista
Yes, they are all so greedy, these people who just recently voted 402-15 to deny themselves even a tiny pay increase next year. Ever looked at a graph of Congressional salaries in constant dollars? It's fallen by about 30% over the past 40 years.
TEHN DONT APPLY FOR THE JOB if you dont want the pay!!
Spend spend spend spend spend. Thats all you support. When in debt, do you attempt to spend your way out of it? No logic at all.
Gee, I thought you were going to provide some examples of all those Congresspersons demanding that police and teachers and the like lose their jobs or see their salaries slashed, but you didn't do that. Why not??? Don't you have any examples of that???
Congressional Retirement Benefits-Too Generous? (http://www.fa-ir.org/alabama/corrupt/Congressional%20Retirement%20Benefits.htm - broken link)
Dont pretend like they dont have a decent retirement package..
TEHN DONT APPLY FOR THE JOB if you dont want the pay!!
Oh the poor little tyrants...I know, maybe they should get paid from voluntary donations made by their constituents. If they did a bang up job, I am sure they could make a fortune from all of the happy people. But if they wound up being the petty little thieves and thugs that they are, they would adequately "rewarded" for their efforts. Hmmm, might be onto something here.
They definitely should have to serve a day in the stocks in public after their terms though....judged by their peers for a day
Is AT&T profitable? Is the United States Federal Government?
Do you understand what a stupid question that is? But go ahead. Tell me what the CEO of freaking AT&T does that makes him worth 184 times what a Congressman is worth. What issues and problems does he grapple with that come even close to what Congress deals with? There is no comparison.
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