To: John Boehner, House Majority Leader and Republican Caucus members
REPUBLICAN CAUCUS: We Want Our Money Back
REPUBLICAN CAUCUS:
We want our money back
We, the undersigned – each an American citizen, voter, and taxpayer – demand a refund.
Voters trusted your promises and have been paying you $174,000 a year plus generous benefits, only to witness your adamant refusal to govern for the past five years. You have gone on an undeclared strike and, in your dereliction, you have:
• Betrayed your constituents and your country
• Damaged the nation’s economy, costing millions of Americans their jobs and many of them their homes.
• Unanimously refused to consider any constructive proposal, even your own party’s ideas
• Done everything in your power to shred the safety net on which the working poor and the unemployed and their children desperately depend.
• Refused to provide essential funding for effective government agencies, education, vital public infrastructure, job training and education.
We believe that every striking Republican in the House of Representatives owes an apology to the American people and a full refund of the salary we’ve paid you for the last five years.
Why is this important?
As a taxpayer, I have been paying my share of $174,000 for each of the Republican congressmen, who have done no meaningful work for the past five years.