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Ralph Norman Blasts Proposed South Carolina Legislative Pay Raise
“This is irresponsible and a waste of taxpayer dollars!”
“This is irresponsible and a waste of taxpayer dollars!”
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Ralph is obsessed with salaries. He opposes this raise and the raise for federal Congresspeople as well. While I don’t know if pay raises are fair or necessary for ordinary people to afford to run for office, I do know this is a drop in the ocean, and certainly not near the top of the most corrupt things to fight.
Ralph is a US Congressman who seems to have checked out of his federal duties to go after local people. For example, the US Government is spending one billion dollars to refurbish an airplane for Donald Trump to use when he is no longer President. Further, since we are borrowing that money to pay for that refurbishment, at today’s interest rate that is going to cost us one billion dollars, plus 30 million dollars a year in interest. We will get absolutely nothing in return for that money. We are paying 3 million a month for Trump to play golf. We will get nothing in return for that. We are paying a billion dollars a day to bomb Iran. A war that Saudi Arabia and Israel wanted, and they are paying money to Trump’s family. Ralph has not raised one objection to any of that spending.
We live in sad times. Corruption is rampant and open, but amazingly, Ralph seems to be going after the least corrupt thing Republicans are doing, and saving us little in the process.
The unspoken part is that few average citizens can afford to run for office in the first place. Gone are the days where the people could hear their politicians speak in an uncontrolled setting about what they really stood for and would do in Columbia. MONEY, whether out of one’s own pocket or supporters’, too often dictates who is elected. If the lobbyists can elect a person to the Legislature to do their bidding, they will pull out all stops to keep them in place. Outsiders, normal people, too often do not have the monetary means to effectively challenge an entrenched incumbent. Often the Incumbent will dodge any debate by using the excuse they will not give their opponent a platform. The system is rigged against a grassroots candidate, regardless of party, without the ability to raise money, money, and more money. The Republicans and Democrats in the State House get elected on one platform and then eagerly look to ingratiate themselves with their monied supporters and party leaders.
They know the pay when they run and continue to run. They spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to get the job. It’s about power. Corruption in Columbia is rampant