Biggest spender: The second-highest-spending congressional office during the nine months we looked at was that of Democratic Rep. Jim Costa of California, who spent $1.3 million, with nearly a quarter of that being expenditures on staff. He was topped by fellow Democrat Pedro Pierluisi of Puerto Rico ($1.5 million), who cannot vote on legislation.
» Biggest expense: Benefits for retired federal employees took the largest slice of the pie, with the Federal Employees Retirement System showing some $80 million in expenditures.
And Obama created at least another 1,000 pensions yesterday when he signed the financial so called reform legislation. That’s on top of the 900 new IRS pensions and God knows how many others Obamacare created.
save for later
Buno for future
Actually, it bought itself dispensation from all the rules and regs and new laws it put on us.
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The only other employer that I have seen pay off college loans, was The Firm that paid off Tom Cruise’s student loans.
They were nothing but Mississippi Mafia Thugs.
That is why it is so important we amend it so that once a government official stops being a government official, they don’t get their same salary.
They need to have the same retirement plans regular American citizens have.
Freakin’ thieves!!!
bookmarked for later reading.
Most importantly, reciting statistics is meaningless to begin with: the authors must show that the spending is unreasonable, by comparing it to some benchmarks. They don't even attempt to do that. Makes me wonder what their majors were in college: they certainly have no idea about the difference between numbers and information.
The screaming huge font is a giveaway from the start, of course.