You expect members of Congress to live in Government Housing!?
Seriously, there are many differences in cost of living nationwide. A Congressman from NYC or San Francisco might have a bit of a difficult time covering his/her family’s reasonable living expenses and their mortgage at home in addition to having to pay for housing in Washington DC.
This is enough of an issue that there are inevitably stories of members of Congress living in their offices or those who partner up and live in something akin to a Congressional Frat house.
I can see this as an argument in the opposite direction as well. A $30,000 bribe is probably not going to sway Donald Trump all that much since its more or less pocket change, but it might have increased influence one someone making $175,000 a year, who is trying to keep two households open. Living in DC is not cheap.
I think we can disagree about the particulars about whether Congressfolks should get a housing stipend or government housing or something without the idea qualifying as a SRIotD, IMO. Not all ideas that one disagrees with are necessarily stupid.
FWIW, I think it’s stupid but only enough to qualify for “stupid liberal idea of the day” if it were proposed by one since those are so rarely valid. But here it’s just so much clutter. I think it’s stupid because not only do I not agree with it, I think it’s not politically viable far beyond any benefit. The Medicaid caps and tax cuts from the DonTCare bill, are less stupid in comparison because they have a political purpose, although I agree with them even less than the stipend proposal. The stipend proposal is chump change for everyone involved.
The stupidity is not so much the idea itself as it is in Jason “teh poors could afford to buy their own damn health insurance if they’d just quit splurging on iPhones” Chaffetz putting himself forward as the pitchman for the idea. I thought that was obvious from the snarky reference to that shining moment of compassionate understanding.
In still other news, yet another teacher arrested for allegedly having sex with student in car. If she ran for office she could have publicly begged “Sweet Jesus” for forgiveness.
I hate to say it, but I don’t think that this is such a bad idea. You should not have to be rich to be in Congress and DC is crazy expensive. You don’t get a mansion for $2500 a month. Average rent is about $2000 for a one bedroom apartment and $2800 for a two bedroom in DC. $2500 can get you a one bedroom in a decent area of town. Apartments For Rent in Washington DC - 7,930 Rentals | Apartments.com
You know, not for nothing, but who voted you king of the thread? We’ve been sailing along here for, ooooh, about 34 fucking thousand posts without your help in soothing our fevered brows. This thread is for specific bitches with specific things regarding Republican stupidity. We are capable of dealing with the topic at hand without your guidance, ferchrissakes. We get it. Trump sucks and your the biggest anti-Trumpian if ever there was an anti-Trumpian. You’re becoming fucking annoying what with your over the top sexism in shitting on Kellyanne Conway and your horeshit, “this is my thread, I’ll make sure it goes right,” maneuver.
So, take a fucking Xanax and try to pretend that your not Lord of All Outrage on the Left. You’re not as clever as you think you are, Bunky. There’s enough stupidity to deal with on the right without having to mop up messes too.
I don’t disagree with them, that it is inconvenient, but once they guarantee that everyone has at least one home, we can look into having the govt pay for them to have a second one.
Chaffetz is the one criticizing the poor for buying iPhones (when few, if any actually do) so he can damn well deal with his own poor judgement of needing to pay for two residences if he can’t afford it.
In keeping with his policy of using roving bands of Christians to pray crime away in Louisville, Kentucky governor Matt Bevin has signed a bill allowing Kentucky schools to teach the Bible. In fairness to Bevin, the class is not a requirement, but is elective. Bevin said that he can’t understand why every other state wouldn’t trip over themselves to adopt the same law, and that atheists can admit that there’s a lot of wisdom in the Bible.
I can’t help but wonder how he would feel if, in an attempt to keep with the spirit of the whole “church/state” thing, someone started teaching Islam rather than Christianity.
