I wish we could take away all of the benefits when they walk away. Let them work like all of the regular folks. No health care and no retirement unless they worked to be 65 and put in 25 years like we do.
Why are we the taxpayer, the citizen, their constituents that "hired" them when we elected them having to struggle trying to make ends meet, and trying to survive the exorbitant cost of health insurance and healthcare, when those we "hired" get free, top-notch healthcare and nice paychecks at our expense?
Especially when the majority of them are already very well-off and can easily afford their own?
Just as I have said for a long time that SCOTUS justices should be required to be impartial, should be elected for a defined term and have term limits. They shot be appointed by the president, because the deck is easily stacked, creating a biased majority.
I have been hearing many quiet whisperings of Congresspeople retiring or quitting.
Democrats have experienced a lot of this in the last decade or more, but because of such BS in the government, but because of their advanced ages.
The wave that is coming now is a lot of Congresspeople ducking out while they still have their skin attached, and some semblance of (shall I say it) "dignity".
I wish we could take away all of the benefits when they walk away. Let them work like all of the regular folks. No health care and no retirement unless they worked to be 65 and put in 25 years like we do.
John, I have said it for many years:
Why are we the taxpayer, the citizen, their constituents that "hired" them when we elected them having to struggle trying to make ends meet, and trying to survive the exorbitant cost of health insurance and healthcare, when those we "hired" get free, top-notch healthcare and nice paychecks at our expense?
Especially when the majority of them are already very well-off and can easily afford their own?
Just as I have said for a long time that SCOTUS justices should be required to be impartial, should be elected for a defined term and have term limits. They shot be appointed by the president, because the deck is easily stacked, creating a biased majority.
I have been hearing many quiet whisperings of Congresspeople retiring or quitting.
Democrats have experienced a lot of this in the last decade or more, but because of such BS in the government, but because of their advanced ages.
The wave that is coming now is a lot of Congresspeople ducking out while they still have their skin attached, and some semblance of (shall I say it) "dignity".