Politics
Congress is in Recess While Americans Starve
Food insecurity is growing while Congress plays games
Your Senators and Congressional Representatives took a little vacation this week. Most Americans just get Thanksgiving Day off. The lucky ones get both Thursday and Friday off. The House and the Senate took the entire week off.
And while they were stuffing their faces with turkey with all the trimmings, 12% of Americans didn’t have enough to eat thanks to the pandemic.
If you follow me, you know that this topic infuriates me. People don’t have jobs, don’t have enough to eat, can’t pay their rent and have lost their health insurance while public servants would rather take time off, on our dime, than pass a relief bill.
What makes me even angrier is that while we don’t have paychecks, food or health insurance, the Congress is collecting paychecks (from us) and enjoying better health insurance than anything that is available to the rest of us.
We are paying these people to ignore us.
And it’s not just our nemesis, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell who, by the way, earns $193,400 courtesy of the taxpayers. His wife, Elaine Chao as Transportation Secretary earns $199,700, also courtesy of the taxpayers, for a…
