Forum Post: what about washington??
Posted 12 years ago on Oct. 17, 2011, 4:30 p.m. EST by kelliej1313
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Why are we not marching on WASHINGTON??? Our CORRUPT GOVERNMENT has played the biggest part of this!!!!! We elect them to do what we ask them to do and instead, they become narcissists whose sole purpose is to get rich from the deals they do that happen to benefit them. THEN they leave office and we are stuck with their bill (no pun intended!) and have to SUPPORT them for LIFE!!!! They get free health insurance, huge pensions and LOTS of perks! Did you know that THEIR children don't have to pay for college??????? Bump Wall Street... it's just a symptom of the problem. Let's take this to Washington!!!! There's NOTHING wrong with our Constitution~ our corrupt government is just not abiding by it!~ If you study it, you will see that it actually protects us!
Let's get to Washington!!!! Let's FIRE Barny Frank for being a crook and causing the housing problem~! Let's FIRE Frank Dodd for assisting him. Let's FIRE those who have made spending our money a life long career and become wealthy doing so! Let's FIRE everyone who voted to send our money overseas to fund those who hate us!
Let's CLEAN HOUSE!!!!!!!
Lobbyists..
Top 10 Heavy Hitters:
ActBlue..... $55,745,059
AT&T Inc..... $47,571,779
American Fedn of State, County & Municipal Employees.... $46,167,658
National Assn of Realtors..... $40,718,176
Service Employees International Union......$37,634,367
National Education Assn.......$37,051,378
Goldman Sachs........ $35,790,579
American Assn for Justice.......$34,715,804
Intl Brotherhood of Electrical Workers......... $34,292,471
Laborers Union........ $31,876,950
http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/index.php
http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/list.php?order=A
http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/mems.php
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Dr. Cornel West and 16 Others Arrested Protesting Corporate Power at US Supreme Court in DC
what about city and state workers? they get paid for life for only working for 1/2 of it and during that 1/2 they work part time so you get paid $3.5mm for working 20 years or $175k/year nice job if you can get it so getting paid $50k for 50 years is $2.5mm plus health care of $20k/year for 50 years is another $1mm
Your numbers are nonsense. What about this: if we worked with our employees to make things more just for everyone? It would mean building up by cooperation rather than tearing each other down, which the 1% just loves.
the numbers are correct (look it up) and many companies hire good natured people and run by good natured people so whats wrong with that? and most business owners feel the pressure to try to book business and keep customers happy so they have enough left over to pay their employees
If the numbers are correct, what is your source? I have contact with a state and municipal pension system and no one is getting big money for part time work. Given the education most of the positions require, the base pay is on the low side, not high as you described.
This analysis works for any public employee the teachers numbers are readily available (but not for other public employees - i'd like to see the DOE numbers)
i took both nyc teachers starting salary of $66.3k at the high end and mississippi starting salary of $41.2k at the low end which is $53.8k on average, and BLS data www.bls.gov which is almost exactly the same
Note these are FULL TIME (not the part time you referred to, the part time refers to state/city workers who get around the rules (such as the garbage collectors in chicago working 5 1/2 hours and getting paid for 8 hours and teachers working ) OR teachers who only work (and yes they may work more than 40 hours/week, but so do i, and the average work week in wisconsin is 41.5 hours/week) about 177 days out of 250 work days (70%)
Next, salaries increased about 6% for 07-09 if you get 3% raises for 25 years of working, that ends at $105k/year so the cumulative earnings (before benefits) THEN you get the same deal for another 25 years , say $52.5k grows 3% (note some teachers have BOTH raises and "step up" raises (two raises) which are 6%/year but sticking with 3% thats $3.7mm paid out over lifetime
Yes we are. I am one of the #ows protestors. We've been there since Oct. 6th,2011. The media(tv and internet) won't focus on DC. They are afraid to bring attention to the Capitol,because more protestors will come.We need more people.
We need to make that one a big one!