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Re: lesgetrich post# 86268

Monday, 10/14/2013 10:41:37 PM

Monday, October 14, 2013 10:41:37 PM

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I can't give you the exact amount each person in Congress spends on each intern or each thing they purchase with taxpayer money, but it's a simple matter to see how much they spend EACH on average. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that these clowns are living the lifestyles of billionaires, based on the amount of tax-free money they dip in the taxpayer pool for each year.

Here are a couple of sources, if you actually care to read:

http://moneymorning.com/2013/03/01/you-only-wish-you-could-live-like-a-congressional-fat-cat/#

http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/uscongress/a/Congressional-Allowances.htm

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/09/29/benefits-members-congress-shabby/

Here are the actual figures PER PERSON from 2012/13, straight from the government's own site, less you don't believe how ludicrous this all is, and that these people are psychopaths and sociopaths:

In 2012, individual representatives received MRA allowances ranging from $1,270,129 to $1,564,613, with an average of $1,353,205.13.

Each member is allowed to use their MRA to employ up to18 full time, permanent employees and up to four part time or temporary employees. The annual salary of any employee of a member of the House of Representatives is currently limited to $168,411 (in 2013).

In the fiscal year 2013 legislative branch appropriations bill, the size of the average Senate SOPOEA allowance is $3,209,103, with individual accounts ranging from $2,960,716 to $4,685,632, depending on the population of the senators' states.

Unlike in the House, the size of senators' administrative and clerical assistance staff is not specified. Instead, senators are free to structure their staffs as they choose, as long as they do not spend more than provided to them in the administrative and clerical assistance component of their SOPOEA allowance.

AGAIN, I ask you, how much money would a private individual have to have in a bank, that would be GUARANTEED, and still spin off $1.3 Million for House members and up to $4.6 Million for a Senator? Guaranteed not to lose any principal would get you rates of about .01-.05%. DO the math, and you will see that many of these clowns live like BILLIONAIRES on the backs of the taxpayers.

AGAIN, is this all right with you for a "PUBLIC SERVANT?" What a joke that title has become.

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