It has been a while since I've been around these parts, but, after the fun and games that have been staged in D.C. these past few weeks, I find it hard to keep my big mouth shut.
Here are two short articles that I recently posted elsewhere and submit now for your approval:
Okay, how's THIS for
logic?
The Tea Party shut
down the US government for 16 days in order to strong-arm the President into
getting rid of ObamaCare. Their reason? The program is too expensive.
Know what the
shutdown cost the US economy? Over $24,000,000,000.
I'm just sayin' . . .
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Did you know that each
member of The U.S. House of Representatives receives an annual salary of
$174,000.00 a year?
Uh-huh.
That's about 3.5
times what the average American worker makes. (And that's not counting the
gold-plated benefits that these guys receive.)
Did you know that
during the government shutdown, every member of Congress received their weekly
paycheck while thousands of other government employees did not?
Uh-huh.
And did you know that each member of Congress is
due to get a pay raise within the next couple of weeks? (And it's an automatic
pay raise. They don't even have to vote on it!)
Uh-huh.
Now, how many of the 140 members of the House
of Representatives who voted against yesterday's proposal to reopen the
government and increase the credit ceiling because they are SO CONCERNED that
the government is spending too much money on "entitlements" such as
ObamaCare, (which will help every single one of we common folk), will suggest
that Congress take a pay-cut? How many of them do you think will refuse their
pay raise?
I'm just sayin' . . .