repubs vote themselves a salary increase amid cuts in social programs

[JimH52]

You are 100% correct. I also believe you should be required to have been born here, have a high school diploma/GED, and be a tax payer in order to vote.

Oh, and be a biological Male.

Why not just reinstate the Poll tax that was under Jim Crow. Crawl back under your rock.

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

No one is arguing that Congress does not need a pay increase

I am

Fuck those useless idiots.



With modern technology there is NO REASON for them to all be in DC every day

 

[Harry Dresden]

Wait, you think only land owners should be able to vote? Am I correct in understanding what he are saying?

jimmy this guy anathema wishes he lived in the fucking middle ages....ask him he wont deny that....

 

[Harry Dresden]

Yet, they are almost universally re-elected

so you can understand the problem this country has.....basically this century some of the most incompetent people ever in politics are right now running the show.....and there doesnt seem to be anyone on the horizon who may be actually a competent politician.....

 

[deannalw]

If you include Burger Fliippers, cashiers and janitors it is in the upper 10 percent

If you look at attorneys, corporate executives and others with their comparable level of responsibility……$174,000 is in the bottom ten percent

Well dear- they are wage earners, are they not?

Or do they just not count in your snooty eyeballs?

 

[rightwinger]

Well dear- they are wage earners, are they not?

Or do they just not count in your snooty eyeballs?

When you discuss salary with your employer does he compare your wage to minimum wage and tell you you should be happy?

 

[Lastamender]

My thread is pointing out the hypocrisy of repub leadership who have plans to shut down the Government. The repubs are models of hypocrisy.

The Democrats are exactly the same. The leadership of both parties are destroying this country, with your help.

 

[deannalw]

When you discuss salary with your employer does he compare your wage to minimum wage and tell you you should be happy?

They are wage earners whether you like it or not and there are a lot of them.

However- it doesn't mean diddly if they count or can go pound sand. Those assholes in congress should get no raises till they can get rid of some of the assholio they've all displayed lately.

 

[Jarlaxle]

You are 100% correct. I also believe you should be required to have been born here, have a high school diploma/GED, and be a tax payer in order to vote.

Oh, and be a biological Male.

So...my neighbor shouldn't have been able to vote, since he dropped out of school to enlist a few weeks after Pearl Harbor? (Despite his DSC.)

 

[Jarlaxle]

Of course, and allow only property owners to vote, and give the 1%ers another tax beak, and re-elect trump so he can share secret documents with Poootin.

At this point...I would no longer oppose a return to only property owners voting.

 

[Anathema]

Why not just reinstate the Poll tax that was under Jim Crow. Crawl back under your rock.

Nah. I think my requirements reduce the voting population sufficiently, while maintaining the concept of an Educated, Informed and Invested electorate laid out by our forefathers with their “white, male, land-owners” limitations on voting.

 

[deannalw]

At this point...I would no longer oppose a return to only property owners voting.

Wouldn't there be a rash of people buying two foot square pieces of "property"?

 

[Carl in Michigan]

Jim?

Oh Jiiimmm!

Where'd ya go, Jim?

Huh.

Hey Jones?

JONES!

Whereya at?

Come on out from under there, you two...

I think he went back to Canada

 

[beautress]

Republicans Look to Give Themselves a Pay Raise After Securing Benefit Cuts for the Poor | Common Dreams

"This is outrageous," said one critic. "Democrats should raise hell over this."

www.commondreams.org

The same folks that were just a few weeks ago hysterically clamering about our budget deficit vote themselves a salary increase...while taking an ax to programs that help the poor.

Exactly what programs were cut from the poor, the murder of the unborn? Tickets and flight expenses to the International Sisterhood of the LGBTQABC Rally in South Africa? Defunding the police committee expenses and triple funding for Antifa AK47s????? Awwwww-w-w-w-w-w.