Comment on Republicans head home for the summer after a string of losses in Congress

• digitalFatteh@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  And get free healthcare they so vehemently deny all US citizens.

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  • anon6789@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I don’t mind their actual base pay, since by becoming a public official you are automatically hated by at least 40% of the population even if you do a good job.

    Those getting that healthcare they deny us, even after they leave their job… that is the real slap in the face.

    I got a lot of other complaints as well, but the healthcare for life is something that should be a human right.

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    • a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I mean, don’t they also get retirement pay forever–something else that they’ve sought over the years to deny us?

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      • anon6789@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I looked it up for the specifics.

        Short version is they get about 1% of base pay per year served, with a slight bonus once you start to stick around for a long time, like 10 years you get 1.1%, 20 years you get 1.2%.

        I’m more concerned with them doing shady stuff back in the private sector where they still have all their political connections with less public scrutiny. I suspect that is the much more lucrative prize.

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• FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Indeed. If we cound the bribes, I mean “lobbyist gifts”, they get about as well as teachers or cancer researchers or whatever SHOULD be paid.

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  • Soulphite@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yet, they do more harm than bad teachers and cancer itself. Make it make sense.

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    • SnoopSqueak@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      You were probably being rhetorical, but it does make sense, in a way that should provoke revolution. Rich people are paying to make everything worse. The self-serving and shortsighted are happily helping them do it.

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