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Along with raising taxes on those making over $250,000, what about Congressmen getting a lifetime of income and health insurance even if they are only in Congress a term or two? How many millions have been spent over the generations to support them? We have to work years to get Social Security and invest in a retirement plan to have enough to live on after we retire. My husband and I have to work to 70 to get enough SS with our savings to live until 85+ (based on our family longevity). We already pay over $400 a month for my husband's retirement insurance to cover us both. Why should congressmen get income and insurance for life? Why not set it up like STRS, PERS, SERS is?- Work 30 years and then draw the benefits. If they don't get re-elected, well so be it. When mainstream Americans lose their jobs, they don't get paid for life and continued health insurance. Instead they end up moving in with relatives or living on the street when they can't find another job and lose their houses. I know, I know - they are public servants. Well, personally and as a social worker, I don't see we have been served all that well by a Congress that put their agenda to get rid of Obama over what is truly best for our citizens.