The Dirt!

Draining the swamp was the unbridled promise of Nancy Pelosi when she was Speaker of the house. Not only did she not drain the swamp she was one of the instruments that dammed it up. How bad is it? We have 100 senators and 435 members of the House for a total of 535. As of today the following statistic is applicable: 29 spousal abuses, 7 frauds, 19 passing bad cheques, 117 bankruptcies (considering they get over $150K that is truly amazing), 3 assaults, 71 insufficient credit to get a credit card, 14 for illicit drug use, 8 for shoplifting, 21 currently in litigation, 84 for drunk driving. This works out to: Legislators 374 out of 535 that are crooks, which leaves 164 that could be clean. What a state of affairs and they have an 87% re-election rate to boot!

We pay congressmen $174,000.00 per year. Then we give them an employee allowance for $900,000.00. Then we give them $250,000.00 for office expenses (we provide the office space). The average legislator costs the taxpayers $3.3 million a year. Can you imagine that sort of income and then not being able to get a credit card due to bad debt? Oh I almost forgot, the "Franking Privilege" and the healthcare that costs only $300 per month for a full family, children to age 25, and the pension, well, then we have Senator Bird who is collecting $190.000.00 plus per year in pension plus free healthcare. You get the picture, I'm sure.

Among all these political extortionists we would just like to single out some very special cases that may well interest you. And yes it is extortion because they set their own salaries by automatic increases of about $3,200.00 per year that they never vote for but always get. Ever since the freeze of COLA to Social Security recipients, who by the way paid for their provided funds over a time of 30 plus years of taxes, Congress has given itself more in increases than the average Social Security recipient gets in an entire year, about $14,000.00.

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