Seven Republicans Tell Furloughed Workers To F**k Off

Our new Democratic-controlled House of Representatives recently passed a bill to make sure the approximately 800,000 federal employees out of work because the President is a narcissistic infant will get back pay for the shutdown.

In fact, 411 House members voted for the bill, passing it with overwhelming bipartisan support. Well, except for seven House Republicans  disagreed. And heeeeere they are ….

Justin Amash of Michigan

Andy Biggs of Arizona

Paul Gosar, also of Arizona

Glenn Grothman of Wisconsin

Thomas Massie of Kentucky

Chip Roy of Texas

Ted Yoho of Florida.

The only ones to vote No, while they sit back and collect their annual salary of at least $174,000. And Glenn Grothmanexplains it like this:

“We can work out something, for some sort of compensation, but to get paid full pay for maybe three or four months when you’re not working? That’s why we’re $22 trillion in debt. These people around here can’t say no to anything.”

Um, except, asshat, they aren’t asking for time off; they were forced to either leave their jobs, or stay and work their jobs without pay, because of your President; and yet you want to punish them?

Let’s look at the numbers … all  federal employee compensation, including money for pensions and healthcare packages, is around $200 billion. Whoosh, that sounds like a lot, but when you compare it to the GOP Tax Scam, which are racking up costs of about $150 billion a year , or the $21 trillion the Pentagon lost track of between 1998 and 2015, $200 billion in federal employee compensation is just pennies.

But, hey, who cares that those federal air traffic controllers received checks for $0.00 while they are still working; and who cares if there is no back pay guaranteed for the thousands of federal contractors who are not on a W-2 arrangement with the federal government. And who cares that forcing people to work without pay is basically slavery. And who cares that members of Congress members have these perks allotted to them, year-round, government shutdown or not:

Congress members get annual allowances averaging $1.27 to staff and manage their offices almost entirely as they see fit, as well as for travel and other expenses.

Congress members work as average of 138 legislative days each year—roughly four-and-a-half months.

Congress members are required to purchase health insurance via an Affordable Care Act exchange, but they receive a federal subsidy amounting to 72% of their premiums.

Congress members, depending on age and length of service, receive a lifelong pension of 80% of their salary.

Congress members who die in office have seen to it that their families receive a payout equal to a year's salary $174,000[ of note, there is a one-time $100,000 death gratuity for families of military personnel killed in action.

Congress members have access to free, reserved parking spots at DC-area airports, a dedicated congressional call desk with major airlines and the ability to reserve seats on multiple flights but only pay for the flight boarded.

Congress members, upon leaving office, receive lifetime benefits such as use of the taxpayer-funded gym at the Capitol, access to the House and Senate floors, parking in House lots, and the ability to dine in the House and Senate dining rooms.

So why should they care if government employees aren’t getting paid, and will receive no back pay?

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The Daily Hypocrite: Franklin Graham

Way back there in 2009, anti-gay preacher man and son of anti-gay Billy the preacher Man, Franklin Graham very publicly announced that he would no longer accept a paycheck as head of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association [BGEA].

“I feel that God has called me to this ministry and that calling was never based on compensation.”

Apparently, though, God may have had a change of heart because just two years later, in 2011, Graham began getting paid again. And that salary is in addition to the more than $620,000 he receives for his other full-time job, leading Samaritan’s Purse, an international relief agency; his paychecks from Samaritan’s Purse alone made him the highest-paid CEO of any international relief agency in this country so it’s not like he needed the BGEA money is it?

But still, last year, Franklin Graham, who made it quite clear that everyone within the sound of his hypocrisy heard him say he didn’t need the money, took a salary from BGEA in excess of $250,000. Graham’s total compensation from the two charities was more than $880,000 and while that total is less than the $1.2 million he received in 2008, it’s still more than some nonprofit experts consider appropriate.

Especially when you trumpet yourself a man of God and announce that God says you should take compensation.

And so that’s why Franklin Graham, pocketing nearly a million bucks from charities while claiming God doesn’t want him to do so, is the ISBL Daily Hypocrite.

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