Posted on 09/19/2013 3:58:31 PM PDT by Southern by Grace
In an argument against a special exemption allowing Hill staffers to buy health insurance, one lawmaker said he’s “stuck” making $172,000 a year, while aides will go on to make in big bucks lobbying on K Street, according to a report.
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If life is so rough for you the QUIT and find you a real job that doesn't involve living off the working taxpayers.
Remember insider trading is not a crime for Con-gress Critters. Wonder how you brokerage account is doing?
Seen any fine interns lately?
Good for him. We need more Congressional reps like him who believe that the law of the land should apply to Congress as well.
He's not complaining about his salary (as Politiho would like you to believe)
Poleftico played up that aspect but he is on the right side of the argument about exempting congress from the law they passed for the rest of us.
$172k isn’t that much in DC where everyone makes that much. Most of them are overpaid IM experience.
Please resign.
I could be more than comfortable on less than a quarter of that, and I live in California. What a p*ssy.
hey STUCK ON STUPID, resign and go become a lobbyist. Simple solution.
He was making the case against congress and staffers getting special exemptions from bammycare and made a remark that while damning out of context was perfectly germane to the politcial a-holes in that room. Two bitchy little staffers took exception to the idea of being treated like the rest of us peons and ran to the RINO fluffers over at the National Review. Polutico then used the NR story as an opportunity to make a political enemey look bad.
Gingrey was comparing Congressional staffer salaries to his, and their opportunity to leverage their position into something better.
The staffers want to be exempted from Obamacare. He doesn't think they should.
It was a poor way to express it, but he was actually arguing AGAINST special treatment for Congress and staff.
Read the article, not just the headline please
Proudly Posting without reading the article since 1999! ;-)
Welcome to Free Republic. I shall look you over for trollish smells.
Is there a single person inside the Beltway that has their head on straight???
Now we are doing class warfare?
Let me lay some facts on the line: $172k isn’t as much money as people think. If you don’t earn that much - I’m sorry. Maybe someday you will.
I earned ~$160k last year. My wife doesn’t work, so that was the total household income. Here’s how LARGE we are living on that HUGE amount of money:
1. I have a 1853 sqft home in South Carolina where the property taxes are less than $1000/year. It’s tiny. Plus, I have my father in law living under the same roof with my wife and two kids. It’s cramped.
2. My wife and I both drive used cars - a Ford F-150 and a Sienna minivan. The cars are paid off, so that’s good, but we don’t drive anything fancy.
3. We went to Disney for vacation. Not Rome or some other exotic location.
4. We don’t have cable television in order to save money.
5. We rarely eat out. With my crazy son, it’s not really possible anyway. If we do decide to go out to dinner and a movie, we’ll easily spend over $100 - $60 for dinner and a drink each, $40 for a sitter, and $20 for the movie.
6. I have a push mower. I usually mow my own lawn but occasionally when work is really busy, I’ll hire a kid to do it. Those kids try to charge $40 for less than 2 hours of work. I have to negotiate them down to $30 or mow it myself.
7. My wife coupons, saving us ~$6k/yr. She also buys a lot of clothes and stuff at Goodwill. She gets a rush from spending $20 on a bag full of clothes for the kids. Other than that, almost all other clothes are bought second-hand, except for my work clothes. Unfortunately, to earn $160k, I have to look like I deserve it or I won’t be taken seriously.
8. I *do* manage to save $10+K per year in my retirement fund, but I often wonder if it is worth it.
When all is said and done, my $160k makes it so we can live very modestly, but without living hand-to-mouth. We aren’t living large. I don’t have a huge house. We watch our spending in order to avoid debt.
That’s about it.
Forget class warfare. When you earn $172k, you’ll suddenly realize that it isn’t all you’d think it would be. You’d be incredibly surprised.
Did this moron forget that he has the power to legislate his own wages while real American incomes have gone down in the past 20 years and all their costs have more than tripled?
Yes, it is easy to be taken in by such spinning, so I understand if you were.
But spinning, it was.
All of it.
Don’t be taken in by Politico spinning. See my message, above.
Don’t be taken in by Politico spinning. See my message, above.
That’s good money.
Top 5 percenter in SC by my calcs.
Well done!
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