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Originally Posted by Jeb Stuart Thurmond
Republican Lawmaker: ‘I’m stuck here making $172,000’
Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-Ga.) lamented in a closed-door meeting Wednesday that his staff can get rich as lobbyists while he is "stuck here making $172,000,"...Gingrey said that staff may not make a lot of money on Capitol Hill, “but in a few years they can just go to K Street and make $500,000 a year. Meanwhile I’m stuck here making $172,000.”
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See, that's why they call it the "poverty trap".
I'd like to help him, but as a billionaire who hasn't made his billions yet, all my assets are tied up in the fact that they don't exist yet.