The average congressman is worth $1 million and current base salary of $174,000 a year. Many of them are in considerably more. Yet they think it’s perfectly reasonable to stimulate the economy with $1200 checks every six months. No wonder the economy is tanking again.
You Can Sponsor an American for Just $6 a Day
Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication and WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a contributor to Centerclip and co-host of "The Final Countdown" talk show on Radio Sputnik. He is a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "2024: Revisited."
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I hope these suckers are eligible to receive the stimulus cheques.
More on these scoundrels:
Congress members: A look at perks and pay
Check-kiting scandal’s widening ripples staining more and more
It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress. — Mark Twain (1835 – 1910)
For single people, it was $600 (so $3 a day).
I note that the Trumpettes (there, that’s their name from now on) have made it so that when the starving, evicted, jobless masses show up to protest some time in April because we all know Biden won’t have done anything, Congress will have the justification to immediately have the police react with mace, heat rays (Google Raytheon’s Active Denial System), rubber bullets fired at eye level, riot gear, and full-out military-style brutality.
One group of halfwits and now everyone is crawling over a mile of broken glass to eat out Congress’s ass. It’s still the same batch of idiots who couldn’t get anything done to help you — for decades now. Proof of concept? Pelosi’s about to become the first Speaker in history to fail to impeach a president twice. “To lose one impeachment may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like incompetence.”
Come to think of it, can anyone explain why a married couple gets twice the amount a single person does? A single person has to pay all their utilities, all the rent, all the etc. A married couple splits those. Shouldn’t have been more like $600 for an individual and $900 for the couple?