DCTiger

Bravo!

I can get behind most of what you like.

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"I voted for this

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I voted for this because the alternative was monumentally worse.

You dipshits think politicians represent everything you want. They don’t and never will. Majority rules. But by all means, vote for the anti-war, pro-immigration politician and tell me how anti-war you’ll be when it’s on your door step rather than 1000s of miles away.

As the saying goes, “if you pray for rain, you have to deal with the mud”.

And I live part of the year in DC, part of the year in NOLA, and the remaining time in Colorado and South Carolina.

I’m one of a kind, the top of a food chain.

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add in the grift

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Grift?
The only grift was whatever HS or community college gave you a diploma.

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Say less

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You should say less and learn to type while you’re at it. Maybe get a better phone or maybe sit back and STFU. Or maybe tryout for the team instead of spitting nonsense about the coaches and players from the cheap seats. Clown.

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I would work for no salary if I had that list.

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You sir, are retarded.

You have the same access to those bills. They’re all in the public domain.

Are members guilty of insider trading? Most likely. But to think a staffer making $50K a year, roughly $33K after taxes, is building “generational wealth” makes you financially illiterate.

Lemme guess, he’s buying $5 worth of Raytheon stock based on what he reads in the Defense Appropriations Bill and wakes up a multimillionaire.

Direct your misinformed ire at Members and a few Senior staff, but leave the everyday poorly paid grinders out of this discussion.

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Let him serve 1-2 terms

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Let him? Like Chuck Grassley or Mitch McConnell?

You don’t “let” politicians do anything because the plurality or majority of Louisianans keeping voting [pick a descriptive noun] into office.

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Even the staffers are building generational wealth.

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You know absolutely NOTHING about how a Senate office works. Generational wealth?….in Washington DC?

Let me break it down for you:

Starting Salary for most entry-level and staffers (usually 2-4 staffers): $30k

Legislative Correspondents: $30-40K

Legislative Assistants: $40-80K, depending

Scheduler(s): $60K

Legislative Director: $80-100K

Ops and misc: $50-60K

Chief of Staff: $180-200K

State Staff: $30-80K, depending

Most likely 2/3rds of the staff work in DC and the other 1/3rd work in the state.

Now look at the cost of living in DC. Average rent for a 1br is $2500-3K.

Not advocating or justifying Turtle McConnell, but don’t speak about things you don’t know. Makes you look like an uneducated a-hole, which you probably are.

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The movie was called Sahara. Came out 2005.

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I’m aware. Always enjoy watching the movie even though it got low ratings.

Decent cast, love Steve Zahn.

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young 73 year old.

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No such thing exists in the workforce, let along Congress.

There’s a reason 66.10 is the retirement age, yet we have Members of Congress in their 80s and 90s. Clown show.