Tyrannical on 24 January 2009
| That Guy said: that's why it would be optional. If you need the money, then by all means take it. Here lots of lawmakers are already rich, so its a drop in the bucket for some of them. |
If you don't need it, donate it to charity. Otherwise they'd be pressured to forgo their salary, and that's what drives people into asking for bribes. Take a certain Gov from Obama's state for example.......
Yet, today, America's leaders are reenacting every folly that brought these great powers [Russia, Germany, and Japan] to ruin -- from arrogance and hubris, to assertions of global hegemony, to imperial overstretch, to trumpeting new 'crusades,' to handing out war guarantees to regions and countries where Americans have never fought before. We are piling up the kind of commitments that produced the greatest disasters of the twentieth century.
— Pat Buchanan – A Republic, Not an Empire
