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It's a fairly standard vesting-based-on-years-served. I believe the minimum service is five years. The pension part, like most pensions, only begins to be paid after the person turns 62? 65? Too lazy to look it up again.

It's a really good pension/OPEB plan, but it is not terribly far out of line with other public-employee plans. Really, the biggest thing is the immediate $174K salary.

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And yet every one of these senators would castrate themselves with Joni's knife before they cut a single dollar from war spending.

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So long as it isn't their own pensions.

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Yep, and with a single-edge razor blade, not a knife. Afterwards, you can fry the testicles and eat them. In season "nut fries" are common at Iowa bars.

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Weekly drug tests and VD tests, and one every 3 months for cerebral syphilis.

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Rendition him to Malaysia, where he's already been convicted of war crimes.

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Probably IBP, now part of Tyson.

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WHen are they going to cut THEIR pensions?

Jackasses

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Joni Ernst's family has received lots of Federal farm subsidy cash.

So basically, she's a Republican.

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Bingo. The House always wins. Senate too, also.

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"So photo-op" ... "Much ex-Presidents" ... "Wow" ... "Parachute maybe" ... "Yeah" ... "Still hate broccoli"

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Funny thing is, in Still Respected* Bush we had a President who actually spoke like that, more than a decade two decades before the Doge meme was created. If we only knew then ...

_______________________________* comparatively speaking

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Congratulations, Senator Ernst. You've figured out a way to pay for half of a Tomahawk missile, maybe.

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Two, know who ELSE is going to be a living former president in 2016? Uh huh. THAT GUY.

This, 100 times over. They don't give a rats ass about this- why not introduce it in 08, 96 or any other year? They really, really hate that guy.

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I am cool with them working where ever after they leave office. It is while they are in office that it is a problem.

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Yes, the correct answer to the question, "Who is buried in Grant's Tomb?" is: Mrs. Grant.

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