{"id":2791,"date":"2011-03-18T12:59:02","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T12:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2791"},"modified":"2011-03-18T12:59:02","modified_gmt":"2011-03-18T12:59:02","slug":"retiring_with_a_bang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=2791","title":{"rendered":"Retiring With A Bang"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I retired from my regular job, I thought I went out with a bang–my boss threw a party for me at Dave & Busters.  It was just my speed.  Well, Wednesday’s Boston Herald<\/a> showed me how the experts do it.<\/p>\n

The Herald posted a story about the staff bonuses given out by the Massachusetts Congressional Delegation last year.  Representative William Delahunt, who retired in January, was extremely generous.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

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“Delahunt, who retired in January after 14 years on Capitol Hill, gave his staff an additional $117,000 in the fourth quarter of 2010, which represented a 38 percent hike in his quarterly payroll, despite a spokesman’s claim that his staff was sharply reduced.<\/em><\/p>\n

“Delahunt spokesman Mark Forest said the congressman gave “performance-based” bonuses to staffers, whose workload increased once the Quincy Democrat announced his retirement.”<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Wow.  The article further reports:<\/p>\n

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“The bonuses were revealed by congressional watchdog Legistorm, which found that 96 lame ducks handed out a total of $6.7 million in staff bonuses as they left office. House members are given office budgets of $1.4 million to $2 million, and many give bonuses at the end of each year rather than return unspent money.”<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Well, at least I now have an idea of why the federal budget never goes down–“many give bonuses at the end of each year rather than return unspent money.”<\/em><\/strong>  <\/em>That explains a lot.  Until we change the culture of spending in Washington, we will never have a fiscally responsible budget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I retired from my regular job, I thought I went out with a bang–my boss threw a party for me at Dave & Busters.  It was just my speed.  Well, Wednesday’s Boston Herald showed me how the experts do it. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}