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I have enjoyed working here these past several years.
You have paid me very well, given me benefits beyond belief. I have 3-4 months off per year and a pension plan that will pay my salary till the day I die and a health plan that most people can only dream about.
Despite this I plan to take the next 12-18 months to find a new position.
During this time, I will show up for work when it is convenient. In addition, I fully expect to draw my full salary and all the other perks associated with my current job.
Oh yes, if my search for this new job proves fruitless, I will be back with no loss in pay or status. Before you say anything, remember that you have no choice in the matter. I can and will do this.
Sincerely,
Every Senator or Congressman running for President
And, this my friends, is what's wrong with our country.
Try that at your job and tell me how it works out.
I have enjoyed working here these past several years.
You have paid me very well, given me benefits beyond belief. I have 3-4 months off per year and a pension plan that will pay my salary till the day I die and a health plan that most people can only dream about.
Despite this I plan to take the next 12-18 months to find a new position.
During this time, I will show up for work when it is convenient. In addition, I fully expect to draw my full salary and all the other perks associated with my current job.
Oh yes, if my search for this new job proves fruitless, I will be back with no loss in pay or status. Before you say anything, remember that you have no choice in the matter. I can and will do this.
Sincerely,
Every Senator or Congressman running for President
And, this my friends, is what's wrong with our country.
Try that at your job and tell me how it works out.
Wouldn't work out too well.
I think we need some more stringent requirements before they draw that 'lifetime salary'.
Since Paul ALWAYS wanted to raise the age before we collect SS and Medicare - my thought is that should be the very same age at which former Congressman or Senator can collect their lifetime salary.
65 should do it. That right there would save some taxpayer money.
What's the drawback?
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Originally Posted by Clarallel
OR we could say what's wrong is that we have a system that drives politicians to be incessantly looking to raise funding.
I have enjoyed working here these past several years.
You have paid me very well, given me benefits beyond belief. I have 3-4 months off per year and a pension plan that will pay my salary till the day I die and a health plan that most people can only dream about.
Despite this I plan to take the next 12-18 months to find a new position.
During this time, I will show up for work when it is convenient. In addition, I fully expect to draw my full salary and all the other perks associated with my current job.
Oh yes, if my search for this new job proves fruitless, I will be back with no loss in pay or status. Before you say anything, remember that you have no choice in the matter. I can and will do this.
Sincerely,
Every Senator or Congressman running for President
And, this my friends, is what's wrong with our country.
Try that at your job and tell me how it works out.
Every politician running for re-election at the national and state level.
Fund raising for themselves and party is a full time job for everyone of them.
I don't think people really understand what a legislative job entails. Or an executive one, for that matter.
In most states, legislative positions are part-time jobs. Why? Because they don't need to be anything else. They do not need to sit around pushing papers, sitting at their computers all day crunching numbers in spreadsheets, or whatever. They spend a lot of time talking to people (including other legislators) and a fair amount of time in the house or senate chambers debating one thing or another. But their jobs are not really the same kinds of jobs that us everyday folks do. To a large extent they can make their jobs whatever they want them to be, which gives them a lot of time to do campaigning, or whatever.
Think of Trump's golf outings: Now, I agree it's silly he spends so much time playing golf, but guess what? He does it, because he can. The job of an executive is not the same thing as us grunt workers, they don't actually "do" things in the way us grunt workers think of it. It's all meetings and decision making. And a lot of PR or "ceremonial" work.
I recently had a job where I was sitting in a cubicle right next to the CEO's office in a company with several hundred workers. I could see right through the window and see what he was doing. Most of the time he wasn't even there (though I presume a lot of that time was when he out somewhere at meetings). And when he was there, he was invariably either talking on the phone, or in meetings. He didn't really do "work" the way I or the other lowlings in the company did.
I don't think people really understand what a legislative job entails. Or an executive one, for that matter.
In most states, legislative positions are part-time jobs. Why? Because they don't need to be anything else. They do not need to sit around pushing papers, sitting at their computers all day crunching numbers in spreadsheets, or whatever. They spend a lot of time talking to people (including other legislators) and a fair amount of time in the house or senate chambers debating one thing or another. But their jobs are not really the same kinds of jobs that us everyday folks do. To a large extent they can make their jobs whatever they want them to be, which gives them a lot of time to do campaigning, or whatever.
Think of Trump's golf outings: Now, I agree it's silly he spends so much time playing golf, but guess what? He does it, because he can. The job of an executive is not the same thing as us grunt workers, they don't actually "do" things in the way us grunt workers think of it. It's all meetings and decision making. And a lot of PR or "ceremonial" work.
I recently had a job where I was sitting in a cubicle right next to the CEO's office in a company with several hundred workers. I could see right through the window and see what he was doing. Most of the time he wasn't even there (though I presume a lot of that time was when he out somewhere at meetings). And when he was there, he was invariably either talking on the phone, or in meetings. He didn't really do "work" the way I or the other lowlings in the company did.
Shouldn’t we expect people actually know what they are talking about BEFORE they give their opinions?
I used to work for a CEO. His schedule was grueling to say the least. He travels internationally 10-11 months out of a year. Not to one specific country but to many many countries around the world. He once told me that he often doesn’t know where he is.
This is a job that you can pay me millions and I won’t and can’t do.
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