"... the true takers are the self-protecting senators and representatives in Washington, D.C. ..."

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LETTERS: Politicians among the worst takers
By Don Ellis, January 2, 2014

According to some politicians and many well-to-do people, our society is made up of givers and takers. They believe the takers are the folks who receive handouts such as food stamps, Social Security checks, Medicare, Medicaid and any other government-assisted program.

I have to go along with some of this rhetoric, but only when a taker doesn’t need that assistance — a person or corporation with wealth who may be collecting Social Security dollars or the type of assistance gobbled up by those banks that were too big to fail.

I worked until I was 69 years old and paid dearly for my Social Security and Medicare benefits. I also collected unemployment benefits when the politicians passed laws and started wars that caused the economy to tank. So do they consider me a taker?

In reality, the true takers are the self-protecting senators and representatives in Washington, D.C., who have an average salary around $175,000, along with many other freebies. Don’t forget they are paid for with the help of our individual tax dollars.

These politicians do not know what a 40-hour work week is, nor do they worry about going bankrupt if they get sick because they sure know how to cover their butts when it comes to health insurance. Instead of trying to promote and help create a good medical plan for everyone, they will fight tooth and nail against any plan to keep what is good for them and not for us.

It is impossible to determine how many dollars the wealthy and corporations have spent creating death panel ads against the Affordable Care Act and lobbying these self-centered politicians who tried to repeal the law nearly 50 times. To those politicians and folks who constantly have their eyes and ears glued to the Fox News politico pundits railing about repealing Obamacare and taking away needy people’s benefits, I say what goes around comes around.

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