• comador @lemmy.world
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    Further proves salary reform is needed at the Federal level: Increase wages enough that restrictions can be put in place to prevent such crap from happening in the future.

    This isn’t a party specific issue, it’s an “OTUS” issue (of The United States) that is problematic across all branches of the US Government.

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      Fuck that these guys all make way more than your average worker. Get the people paid first. These officials can go to jail where they belong.

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      The time that he complained he wasn’t making enough money was after he took a $267,000 loan for a luxury RV so this comes across as him wanting a lavish lifestyle instead of actually struggling.

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      I’m sorry but is $300k not enough? And that is just their federal pay. All of them have book deals and get an extra couple hundred thousand a year from that. If they have issues living on that, they have some serious spending problems.

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      It’s good in theory, but knowing how greedy these people in power are, raising their salaries just means they can get even richer with bribes and under-the-table deals on top of it, so they’ll do it anyway.

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    “See heeyuh, boy, how’d ya like a full paid vaycayshun to them Buhmamuhs? You a credit to your race, a damn fine specimen. Even got you a white wife, haw haw.” - Colonel Sanders