AOC complains her $174,000 congressional salary is poverty wages
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Says the broad who admits to owning two houses, drives a $50k (at minimum) Tesla, takes more than a month off of work in a row with no fear of how to afford such a luxury and buys $25K tickets to some stupid gala. Guess what AOC? We can actually look up how many days the house members are in session. Last year, you assholes worked 100 days out of the 365. You worked as many days as the average 9:00-5:00, Monday through Friday employee has off over the year. The only difference is…you were paid $1,742 a day. You’re welcome you ungrateful bitch.
Mean while, a dame such as myself, trying to get her business back up to pre-Covid numbers, drives a 2001 rusty ass Wrangler with transmission issues I can’t afford to have fixed, lives in a cheap ass apartment with black mold growing in the walls, hasnt had dental or medical for a few years and actually needs it due to pre-existing conditions, is about to lose everything I have left. But I guess I should be happy you assholes were kind enough to send me $2,000 of my own fucking money back to me over the span of two years. Fuck you!
Well said.
BRAVO fern
Cut and paste this to her ridiculous tweet! It's very well said and to the point!
Ok, Drop everything, run for congress, win, and then still if you can live on $175k in DC and pay for travel between places.
She not saying it's impossible; she is saying it's hard to have 2 places to live and pay for the travel on that much.
Quit justifying the BS.
The important message is contained is the last paragraph. Though she gets that right, she somehow continues to do everything else wrong.
She campaigned for this job. We did not force her.
She's living beyond her means. She should rent out the second house to turn it into a profit, and rent out her tesla when she's not using her vehicle for long periods. Frankly, i'd be concerned we have someone who isn't fiscally responsible being a part of the members running the country
Maybe don't have two places to live
That's a huge health hazard. I would spray it immediately with chlorine bleach then open windows and vacate the apartment for the day to let the fumes escape.
I minimise dental and medical problems by eating and drinking NO carbohydrates.
Bleach will not kill it. Vinegar kills any black mold and then scrub it out with borax. Way too much bleach being used today.
Wasn't she a waitress before? I think she should go back to her old job.
Nancy put a bar in at the capital,she can double dip.
That's right. Day and night job. Some of us need to do that in order to buy gas.
Didn't put that together before. Good point.
She red pills like nobody's business.
Comment of the day.
So, it finally dawned on her how bad the economy is really about to get under Biden? Cause that will be poverty level under him.
Congress does vote to give themselves pay raises, you literal jackass.
That's right, it's called being a public servant. Anyone worth their salt understands that you will make sacrifices in your personal life for the greater good of your calling to the public. Maybe one of them is having a child, so either stop be selfish or choke on a feed bag of dicks!
In her case, maybe we could all pitch in for the dental insurance.
Gofundme, anyone?
Dental and vision is an option for Federal Health Insurance. There are actually about 30 different health insurance plans that they can opt into. Some are HMO's and some are PPO, with a few oddball plans. All cost money and none come with Vision or Dental. That is a separate plan the you have to opt into and pay for. She is whining because it isn't "included" in the medical. My cost is about $550 a month without dental and vision. I have never used my medical insurance for anything. I haven't seen a doctor since 1999 on an exit physical from the military. The only reason I have medical coverage is for a catastrophic injury. Other than that, I will be happy to avoid our medical system and hopefully the next doctor that touches me will be hanging a tag on my toe.
That wouldn't stop her looking like a horse. That would require some sort of trans-species surgery. Don't put it past her. On our dime.
Good point! After debate, I hereby withdraw my motion.
LOL
As my horny, Yorkshire schoolfriend used to say, "ye don' look at the mantel shelf while stokin' the fire". I'm sure that there's a few males out there who would donate semen so she could have a baby. (Or maybe I'm missing the point?)
Maybe she should write up a bill to keep representatives at home in their district where the people they represent can access them. They can vote from home.
What about all the perks you also get: vote your own pay raise, platinum health plan, security protection, etc. There are people who earn far less. Many congressmen sleep in their offices. When you leave Congress, God willing people come to their senses and vote you out and the elections aren’t fixed, you will have a cushy job offer somewhere (maybe with MSM), or you will “write a book.” I heard those book deals are very lucrative! You can always quit and go back to bar tending or be an actress, you have done well at both already!
I wonder, if what she says is true, 174k would indeed be hard to live on. Is this part of why our politicians are so quick to deal w the devil once they get in?
I think that's the point, right? To draw attention to the corruption? The insider trading? The loopholes they create for them selves in order to enrich themselves?
And that's how she justified "investing" with insider information and will make tens of millions of dollars in the next decade.
Fucking marxist propagandists.
The median age of congress is 60!! And that has trended down in recent years. The reason only 10 women have given birth in congress is because of BIOLOGY. Something the left struggles with, I know.
https://fiscalnote.com/blog/how-old-is-the-117th-congress
Good point lol. Biology it seems is not democrats strong suit.
Women who go to Congress should go to serve their country, not to have babies.
Dumb crazy bitch.
Horse feed is expensive.
If $174,000 is poverty wages, then what is $28,000, which is what I make before taxes?
Lol she said there’s fake memes about congress voting in their pay raises. Lololololo I thought mr Ed was the funniest horse.
Bojack might be up there.
she should try my salary lol like 1/5th of what she gets STFU b'tch
tell her to go back to the damn bar...stupid bitch
Coming from this skank, who was bar tending and probably giving handies to help pay the rent, to where she is now? Tone def broad.
Campaigns for job, gets job, complains about job.
There is a type of person that is perpetually dissatisfied and incapable of gratitude.
How bout grandma lives in poverty, house falling apart and AOC no where to be found.. Pepe farms remembers….
Try living on 45K you moron.
In a weird way she has a point. If her rant really is because she wants to do something traditional, by having a family, it’s worth considering solutions. And the answer doesn’t always need to be money.
One solution is to cut the hours, days, weeks, and months Congress is allowed to be in session. Everything isn’t an emergency, they don’t need to Be there most of the year. We don’t need new laws being passed constantly, pass a damned budget and go home.
Provide reasonable housing in the D.C. area to members of Congress. No options to buy or rent their own.
Permit a percentage of votes to be made remotely. Not everything requires all the face-to-face contact the Congressional dinosaurs pretend it does.
Anything that keeps the Members out of D.C. and in their home states or Districts is worth it.
I had 2 children single mother worked in a bank netting $500 a month in 1988.
She can STFU.
They actually do not work in DC for the majority of the year. Some stay there for meetings with lobbyists, others have mistresses and professional women that they see on a regular schedule, but most go home to their district and families. The actual time they spend in session is roughly around 80-140 days a year (and only for a few hours typically), depending on the year. Considering the last couple of years they were doing remote "working" due to Covid, she could have easily had a baby without impacting her voting. As far as the rent of apartments etc, i don't have any information about that, but i do remember some hoopla about a Church of some kind that had apartments that they were renting out super cheap to some pols about a decade ago. I remember that it was an issue because the dems were complaining about it violating church and state or some such nonsense. I am pretty sure that lobbyists and corporate backers subsidize or otherwise get involved with their pet politicians living expenses, especially if its a big enough concern that AOC is whining about it. Maybe there needs to be an investigation about the housing arrangements in DC for all politicians? Get to the bottom of who is paying for what.
Thanks. As you point out, they are really part time. But they create a grand illusion by running back and forth between their home state and D.C.
So cut the travel and have two 90 day sessions where they are actually in D.C., we need to break the illusion our lives depend on them.
Limit the number of staffers for every politician to a reasonable number and have quarterly financial disclosures of all financial details of public and private life. Extend to immediate family. No Congressional or Senate disclosures of privileged information can be traded on. Any anomalous portfolio windfalls must be investigated.
Her vote didn't mean shit anyway. Dems had the majority and never really had to worry. There were a few close calls but Pelosi allowed remote voting or proxies so she blew it. Ain't gonna happen next term.
I’m not saying I agree with her. My point is we could use her complaint to curb their power.
PROFESSIONAL POL trying to garner tears for her "low" salary so she can start a family...How HYPOCRITICAL of her...what about families who don't have that much of a salary trying to make under dems proclivity for SPENDING!!!!!!
Go back to your hole Moron...your held elf is calling!!!
Perhaps she could've voted to send $40B to America instead of Ukraine.
I think she should quit and go back to being a bartender. Obviously, she'd make more slinging booze.
So quit.
I did. And I still don't make as much as you.
Mr. Ed has the brains of a bag of hammers but she does bring one thing to light, the insider trading that we know happens. Like it or not, she has a pretty deep following, now even those people will not be able to deny the stock market manipulation that goes on in DC.
Sucking cock in the bar paid her better...
Her wages are tax-free, too. Can you imagine that?
Wait until we takenit all away you slime
If the pay isn't enough, may I suggest you look for another job that offers better benefits, better pay and that has a better work/life balance.
Demanding the job change to suit YOU, isn't the way things work, in a capitalistic society. it works that way in a Dictatorship, but not in a Republic.
Having a job gets in the way. Yep. We cattle understand this.