Question by His Divine Shadow: Why are so many people upset at the so-called fat cat bankers when the REAL fat cats are in Washington DC?
I am no fan of huge banks, but at least their executives EARNED their money and are being paid big bonuses because their board of directors and shareholders agreed to pay them out. Did you get a vote on whether or not some politician dick takes 30% of your paycheck away and spends it on BS pet projects, global warming parties in copenhagen, and fleets of limos, private jets, and entertainment for their lobbyist friends? I don’t mind paying for taxes if the money is spent responsibly for our military, police, firefighters, roads, and yes, even responsible social welfare programs. But I don’t need to be financing ACORN’s payroll, banker bailouts, stimulus spending, bridges to nowhere, and the lavish dinner parties that are hosted at the White House on a weekly basis. It doesn’t help that the bastards spending all this money don’t have their own money to foot the bills for some of these expenditures. Politicians in Washington aren’t exactly hurting for cash right now. If successful business people who actual make things and contribute to society don’t need all the money they earn as liberals never stop telling us, then I guess the folks in Washington certainly don’t either.

Personally, I think that every politician in Washington who has drafted an earmark, support an unfunded and bloated entitlement program, voted for raising our debt-ceiling, or spent taxpayer money on this kind of crap should get paid $ 0 a year for their work – their six-figure salaries can go to pay down the debt. And if they have a problem with that, they can get real jobs instead of feeding like parasites of the labour of their citizens while they arrogantly shove policy down our throats while insisting that we are stupid and that they know what is best for us.

YOUR THOUGHTS?
I’d like to take this opportunity to LoL @ Yahoo! for trying to put this question in the “Pets > Cats” category.

Best answer:

Answer by CONvict Shrubya
don’t forget that republicans blocked the bank bailout in ’08 until they stuffed it with pork for their voters. Almost every politician has fought for at least one earmark. That’s how they represent their constituents. Individually, each politician is not elected to represent the entire country, they are elected to represent their district or state and sometimes that means getting or preserving jobs for their little area.

not all earmarks are bad either. Some are actually legit.

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