Now I’m Really Angry
So I was checking to see if Boehner, Cantor, and Ryan were in the House and passing the budgets that cause the deficit to explode again – they all were.
People forget that the iconic National Debt Clock was turned off after the debt started to be reduced under Clinton. It had to be re-started and an extra digit added when the Republicants took over the White House as well as Congress during the Hedgemony.
So, during the search I ended up at Dennis Hastert’s Wikipedia entry, and learned about a little perquisite that is given to former Speakers of the House – “archiving” money. Since Hastert resigned to become a lobbyist, according to the Chicago Tribune he has been receiving $40,000 per month to pay for office space, staff, and the lease on an SUV to “put his papers in order”. He is going suck up about $2.4 million during the five years that he gets this “assistance” and he doesn’t have to explain what the $6+K/month leased SUV has to do with “archiving”.
Did you know that the surviving spouse of one of the thousands of military people who were killed in the Hedgemony’s wars gets $1154 per month, if they can jump through all of the VA’s hoops.
Hastert gets a six-figure Congressional pension plus health insurance, and a surviving spouse is left just above the poverty line.
If they want to get serious about the deficit, this is the sort of gratuitous waste of money that has to end.
