Senator Questions System Allowing 'Triple Dipping' Veterans

The real question is why a one term Senator would be entitled to lifetime medical and retirement pay. Not certain but I bet it’s 50% of base pay.... let’s be honest Congress targets the military EVERY YEAR & Both parties do it. Time for congress to eat the same costs as retirees do every year! Lead from the front senator. I bet Max Cleland would disagree with you!

I think they need to change their retirement over to a 401 K program. We should not be penalized for retirement.

I am a retired federal law enforcement officer and will happily confess that I am a true believer in Sam Clemens’ remark “Congress is America’s only true native criminal class.” With all that feel good ethics laws the congressional critters passed and which they creatively evade, the old pre Watergate days of bulging envelopes is gone. Now the Congressional critters have to be more creative. They have lifetime pensions and medical insurance plans paid by your tax dollars. They cannot convert their campaign funds to personal use anymore so they set up political action committees to buy more influence. To supplement their meager incomes they share their “wisdom” with anyone willing to pay for it. Then share their experience and wisdom in self-published books such as the famous and inspiring “A Gourmet’s Guide to Rape and Murder in Politics on your Dime”. A guide to public service where the writer confesses that he or she screwed the taxpayers (THAT IS YOU!) Got investment information from “friends” got richer taking advantage of it without fear of criminal sanctions because of self-created exemptions. Where can you buy the book? You cannot because for some strange reason they all seem to be bought by lobbyists!!

The senator is a jackass. We give illegals and terrs or their supporters more $$$ they never earned. Now some WIMP whines about veterans! Foxtrot him and all his ilk.

I question your benefits as a senator. Everything you get is exclusive to congress and the senate. The best of the best health insurance. A great retirement, and I'm sure you have an outside retirement and under table perks. . If you worried about the budget and the retirees receiving their SSI benefits. Guess what it was our money not yours. If it was kept out of general fund it would have been selfsuficient. What an insult you give illegals SSI benefits and anybody else that didn't contribute. I think the retiress need to file a class action suit against the government for grand theft. That money came from the workers and their employers. The government contributed nothing to the fund just misappropriated money from the SSI account. They just considered it a slush fund to pay off they're illegitimate sexuall encounters and other government programs. It needs to be put back and all the money moved to a private account. It's not the governments money. It belongs to the people.

This from a group who gets retired pay, healthcare, and paid speaking gigs for years, after serving one term in Congress, or who spends their whole life in politics.

But hey a senator or congressman can serve a few years and get full benefits get another government job get those benefits and that’s ok

Ok, so say I work for 30 years in the private sector, receive a retirement from them, then get SSI. Ok by the definition I am double dipping. But wait, I mow my yard, I get paid by the satisfaction that my yard looks good. So my neighbor offers to pay me to mow his and so does the person across the street. I earned the pay I get from them, yet I am "mowing". Same thing, different yard. Two different pots of money. I qualified for each separately. So don't tell me I can't get paid by both, and can only accept one payment. And no, not the triple satisfaction of having a nice yard in 3 different places.
But in real life I had already 40 quarters SS in the private sector before I worked in the Civil Service, a job for the Army Reserves as a civilian CSRS employee. . However it has a condition of employment of being in the Reserves. Two pots of money, similar work, different clothing for each. I would have loved to not been in the "military" Reserves, but it was a condition of keeping the "civilian" job. SO now I get hit with this "Civil Service Windfall Elimination Provision" at the time to draw Social Security, because I receive a pension I EARNED from CSRS. All along I got letters from SS telling me I would get $1250 a month from SS, it based my time to retirement. Now I'm only allowed to draw $342, loosing over $900 a month.
So if I worked part time at McDonalds, and part time at Burger King, and retired from both, is it double dipping to receive a pension from each because it is of course the same type food industry.
If I earn something I should be entitled to receive it. But I guess they have to steal money from the ones who earn it to give it free to the ones that don't.
Right now I draw my military retirement and 60% VA disability. My ex spouse because of a liberal judge, gets 50% of my military pay, and 40% of my CSRS. So I get to live on $2200 a month including my $342 from SS. If they took away that VA, I'd be under a bridge before you can say WTF?

These are the people we need to keep an eye on, we serve our country and a lot of us find ourselves with a disability, we served and should be eligible for anything that is out there. I am not sure why this senator has decided to try to limit compensation for veterans but maybe he needs to try to limit his own compensation.

so this senator who will retire after what 4, 8, 12 years and will be set for life because he sat in a chair in an air conditioned room, our so called leaders get way more than we do, i worked my ass off since 14, paid taxes, still doing the same, spent 31 yrs millitary, went to combat 50% for that , and this SOB has the balls to stand up, how about we take his retirement away and see were he sits