{"id":9561,"date":"2015-06-01T21:37:08","date_gmt":"2015-06-01T21:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9561"},"modified":"2015-06-01T21:37:08","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T21:37:08","slug":"get-elected-to-congress-and-enrich-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9561","title":{"rendered":"Get elected to Congress, and enrich yourself?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Median income of Americans has fallen since 2003.<\/p>\n

How about the incomes of their elected congressional representatives? It’s gone the other direction.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/members-of-congress.insidegov.com\/stories\/4235\/list-congress-members-getting-richer?utm_medium=social.paid&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=ao.sp.fb.dt.4235&utm_term=insidegov<\/p>\n

And to think that some members of Congress want a pay raise, that 174 grand a year isn’t enough, that only “rich people” can serve.<\/p>\n

That’s the line being pushed out there by U.S. Rep. Alcee Hastings, D-Fla., along with other members of the House and Senate who gripe that they’re underpaid.<\/p>\n

Check out the link attached to this blog and you might get a different idea of just how “impoverished” some of our elected reps and senators have become — which is to say they aren’t impoverished in the least.<\/p>\n

Many of them have seen their portfolios increase<\/em> while serving on Capitol Hill.<\/p>\n

How does this happen? In some instances, senators and House members parlay their public standing into positions on corporate boards. All they do, then, is belong to boards of companies that reap tremendous profits and then distribute some of that wealth among board members.<\/p>\n

Hey, it’s great “work” if you can get it.<\/p>\n

This is the kind of stuff that makes the plea\u00a0such as what’s been coming from Alcee Hastings sound ridiculous on its face.<\/p>\n

Let’s can the give-us-a-raise talk.<\/p>\n\n

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Median income of Americans has fallen since 2003. How about the incomes of their elected congressional representatives? It’s gone the other direction. http:\/\/members-of-congress.insidegov.com\/stories\/4235\/list-congress-members-getting-richer?utm_medium=social.paid&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=ao.sp.fb.dt.4235&utm_term=insidegov And to think that some members of Congress want a pay raise, that 174 grand a year isn’t enough, that only “rich people” can serve. That’s the line being pushed out there … Continue reading Get elected to Congress, and enrich yourself?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[242,849,1122,3781,4963,4980],"class_list":["post-9561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-alcee-hastings","tag-capitol-hill","tag-congressional-pay-raise","tag-public-service","tag-u-s-house","tag-u-s-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}