Lyle Northey (Silent/Boomer)

We are in danger of having Social Security go bankrupt and we have a huge national debt but no one is looking at any options that would help reduce this shortfall that would affect members of Congress.
By that I mean the practice of members of Congress getting full pay and benefits when they are no longer in Congress. They need not retire, they can lose and election and still walk away with the whole pie. This was one of the benefits they voted themselves when they took away the publics right to oversee such things.
It is time to rewrite the contracts they are given when they are elected. Other government employees are limited to 2% per year of service when retiring, not just leaving because they were in fact fired for poor performance. How many have been elected to one term and then gone on to being consultants or beltway bandits? Have the people that make the payroll open the books and let the public know the abuses that are being carried out by the one hit wonders.
If those of us that have had our wages taxed to build a fund to help us when we are no longer working and that fund is open for pork barrel projects we need to put the cork back in the barrel. The wages paid to members of Congress are not the basis of most of them becoming millionaires, special perks and out and out corruption are. Time to shut down the gravy train.
The golden umbrella or whatever should not be part of the departure of elected persons that did not do the job they were elected to do. We have witnessed years of Republican showboating and foot dragging to make their leader happy. It is time to get rid of everyone of the supporters of the the insurrection and just fire them, no special deals on the way out the door.
The way that big business is organized is very much the same way. The person that is put in charge makes a deal so that no matter how well or poorly they do they walk away with a nice severance deal. We need to take that equation out of government offices. The guy on the floor doing the work gets no bonus if he is let go so let’s go back to common sense in government elected offices as well.