At age seventy-eight, I am still working, contributing to a retirement plan, and saving for a future retirement. I’m still playing catch-up from the disruption caused by the “Reinvention of Government” under Bill Clinton. I’m my own analyst at running the numbers every month as I review the accounts, and worry about what the latest political idiocies will do to my future retirement, and my abilities to withstand the stresses the politicians invent to keep me agile and working into my eighties.
I frankly feel that the political caste should share the pain equally with the rest of us. Politicians should have been reinvented out of existence with my job. Congress should have exactly the same healthcare travails as we rank-and-file citizens, and the examination of waste in government should start right where it begins in Congress and the White House.
Enough bull shit about government workers, welfare, social security, and cheats. We should root it out right where it starts, at the top. Or as an old Spanish proverb has it – “A fish rots from the head down.”
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I’m so sorry, Lou. They’re monsters.
Every federal politician needs to be subjected to the same criteria as all federal workers. Same benefits, same pension, same lack of perks, same requirements of service before receiving pension, etc. They are supposed to be working for us, but a lot of them are so disconnected from real life they have no idea what it’s like to live under the rules they create.
I’d love to see them subject to the same benefits, pension and rules as the rest of us! OOOOHHHH! a GS4 first term Senator! What a dose of reality that would be.
I doubt we will ever see change.
One can hope.
The fact that there is such a disconnect has in mho always been the problem.
I agree.