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Alabama Rep. Martha Roby is retiring from Congress.
This is the third GOP retirement this week.
Interesting, to say the least. Not unusual but the GOP seems to be leaking while the Dems - albeit in internal turmoil - are now shifting gears to the 2020 elections.
"Hunting Politics are stupid!" - Farm Hunter
"Bible says you shouldn't put sugar in your cornbread." Dustin, 2013
"Best I can figure 97.365% of the general public is a paint chip eating, mouth breathing, certified dumbass." BCLC, 2020
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And she hasn't done a fracking thing
"And the days that I keep my gratitude
Higher than my expectations
Well, I have really good days" Ray Wylie Hubbard
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Grumpy Old Man
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And she hasn't done a fracking thing She's done more for veterans than any congressman in history.
I hate making a good first impression. There’s no way I can keep that shit up.
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did you know that once elected for congress you will retire and get your full salary of $185,000 for the rest of your life even if you serve only one term. They gave themselves this a few years ago.
This is a fact.
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did you know that once elected for congress you will retire and get your full salary of $185,000 for the rest of your life even if you serve only one term. They gave themselves this a few years ago.
This is a fact. I wonder if I run on a Democratic platform and promise free sheeit for life I could get in for one term.
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And she hasn't done a fracking thing She's done more for veterans than congressman in history. Truth
Super Predator
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did you know that once elected for congress you will retire and get your full salary of $185,000 for the rest of your life even if you serve only one term. They gave themselves this a few years ago.
This is a fact.
Nice work if you can get it. But members of Congress can't.
A report on "Retirement Benefits for Members of Congress," prepared in November by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, outlines how pension benefits are calculated.
The key provision: no member of Congress is eligible for any pension unless he or she has served in Congress for at least five years. (Senators serve six-year terms; House members must seek reelection every two years.)
To collect, a congressman or senator must be age 62, or be at least age 50 with 20 years of service, or be any age with 25 years of service.
Under the most recent pension program, adopted in 1984, the size of a pension is based on the highest three years of a member's salary, the number of years of service and a multiplier, which is 1.7 percent for the first 20 years of service and 1.0 percent for subsequent years.
Here’s an example, using a typical 25-year rank-and-file member who retired this year. The pension would be the sum of two calculations. First, multiply $172,443 [the average salary over the last three years] times 20 years times 0.017. Then, multiply $172,443 times 5 years times 0.01 and add that number to the first calculation. The total: about $67,250 per year.
A three-term congressman (or one-term senator) who has now reached retirement age would be eligible for an annual pension of $17,588 for six years of work. That's generous, but not close to full pay.
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Mildly Quirky
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"Hunting Politics are stupid!" - Farm Hunter
"Bible says you shouldn't put sugar in your cornbread." Dustin, 2013
"Best I can figure 97.365% of the general public is a paint chip eating, mouth breathing, certified dumbass." BCLC, 2020
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Freak of Nature
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Bitch Peas, I'm a Kitty Whisperer
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$172,000 to do nothing per year ain’t bad at all.
If I agreed with you, we'd both be wrong.
Bluetick serpentines around green fields and rock spit a lease
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Freak of Nature
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did you know that once elected for congress you will retire and get your full salary of $185,000 for the rest of your life even if you serve only one term. They gave themselves this a few years ago.
This is a fact. That is a falsehood that has been going around for years and it isn’t true. Do some research.
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Freak of Nature
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I bet they fear upcoming changes to the way lobbyists can operate so they are getting out now so they can still be lobbyists or consultants.
Lord, please help us get our nation straightened out.
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