Congress is not overpaid. However, if you had a job where your boss felt you were doing a very poor job, you were under investigation for wrongdoing and the human resources department said you were overpaid, how long would you have your job?
Well, if your job was in Congress, not to worry because your boss(es) are not all that bright. Most Americans (wrongly) believe members of Congress are overpaid, the approval of Congress is near an all-time low and likely corruption and improper influence at an all-time high.
So what are you going to do about it?
The logical answer is to vote out the wrong people and vote in the right people (whomever they are), but the logical answer simply does not work. Therefore, we must seek an alternative … term limits!
Or, if you have a better idea, let’s hear it‼️
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds 63% of Likely Voters believe the current congressional salary of $174,000 a year is too much. Just four percent (4%) think that’s too little, while 30% say it’s about the right amount. The vast majority believes they should take pay cuts until the federal budget is balanced.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Americans’ approval of Congress is 13% in April, inching down from 15% in March, and currently standing only four percentage points higher than the all-time low of 9% in November 2013. Congress’ job approval rating has ranged between 12% and 15% since December. – Gallup Poltics
The country’s top recipient of Medicare dollars was Dr. Salomon Melgen, a Florida ophthalmologist who has been repeatedly investigated for overbilling the government for an eye medication. In 2012, he received $21 million in Medicare reimbursements. That same year, he donated $700,000 to Majority PAC, a super PAC run by associates of Harry Reid, the Senate Democratic leader, which in turn spent almost all of it to help re-elect Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey, a crony of Dr. Melgen.
Dr. Melgen and his wife also gave $22,600 to Mr. Menendez’s campaign, $10,000 to his PAC, $40,000 to the New Jersey Democratic State Committee, and $60,400 to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. Did that have something to do with Mr. Menendez’s intervention on the doctor’s behalf with the head of Medicare? Based on the timing and the amount of money involved, it’s hard to reach any other conclusion. The Justice Department is investigating the senator’s conduct in the matter.
The other big Medicare biller was Dr. Asad Qamar, a Florida cardiologist, who received $18.2 million from the program in 2012, by far the most of any cardiologist. That led to a review by the program, which in turn started the political donations flowing. He gave more than $100,000 to the Democratic National Committee and its state branches, along with contributions to the campaigns of President Obama and many congressional candidates. Then he hired a lobbyist to contact lawmakers to get federal investigators to back down. The New York Times 4-10-14
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You are 100% correct that we need term limits in congress but it takes an act of congress to require term limits. The question is, How do you convince someone to cut their own throat?
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