Times are tough. But if you take this deal, they’re about to get better — a lot better.
Just about everything costs more these days. Bidenflation has pushed up the price of food, gas, rent, clothing, and heat. Thanksgiving dinner is much more expensive than ever before, and don’t even think about how much Christmas and Hanukkah will set you back. In fact, things are so bad under Biden that a lot of Americans now have to work two jobs just to get by. Some are even working three.
But all that’s about to change! Here’s the deal:
Your salary will take a big jump to a whopping $174,000 a year.
You’ll also get highly subsidized health benefits and great care.
Paid vacation time and personal leave are part of the deal, too.
When you travel for work, your flights, hotels, and meals will be free.
So, too, will your membership at an exclusive gym and dining room.
And if you ever retire, your pension and death benefits will be tops.
Best of all, you only have to work about 74 days a year!
The catch? You’ll need to be elected to the United States Senate.
Membership has its privileges — especially in the Washington swamp. The so-called elites there have voted themselves high pay and generous perks that Americans are forced to fund.
Worse, the above list is just a small sampler of ruling-class perks paid for at our expense. I detail many more in my book, “Beat the Elites.”
Consider security, for example. Many of the elected officials who called for the defunding of the police have some of the finest personal and home security money can buy. While they berate us for harming the planet, a lot of government officials are cruising around in emissions-spewing private jets. And when Joe Biden moved out of his Delaware basement, he wanted the White House to undergo a major renovation — not because the roof was leaking, the carpeting was worn out, or anything like that. No, it was to remove anything President Trump might possibly have touched. All on our dime, of course.
But what really has me steamed right now is the “work” schedule that Senate Democrats just released for 2024. Of the 262 workdays next year, the Senate’s leaders — Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) — decided the “World’s Greatest Deliberative Body” should only be open for 132 of them. Even that number is an exaggeration, because it includes the days senators fly into and out of Washington, D.C. In other words, days they generally get little done for us.
Subtract those and a few other fillers they threw in to pad the numbers, and you’re left with 74 workdays.
These elites think they deserve to be on the job one day for every three and a half days you, I, and everyone we know will be working.
For some unknown reason, they believe they deserve to live differently than regular folks do. They give themselves high pay, posh perks, and a light work schedule that few Americans will ever enjoy. And they don’t feel one bit bad about sticking everyday Americans with the bill for the very good life they’ve established for themselves.
U.S. Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Texas) famously called Washington, D.C., a “work-free drug zone,” which is funny and often true. But his joke has a serious side. The people we’ve sent to Washington to serve us are living large at the very time many Americans are suffering. Which is why it’s past time for the people to beat the elites. Making senators actually work for their perks would be a great place to start.
Opinion, Senate