33 Job Openings of 2012, No Experience Necessary...Silver Spoons Preferred

Hello friends,

  Today's post will be slightly EPIC, as far as the amount of information that I will be posting.  As stated in the title, there are 33 job openings...and they are all in the Senate. To be Senator, you need only these requirements:

 

• at least 30 years old.
• a U.S. citizen for at least nine years at the time of election to the Senate.
• a resident of the state one is elected to represent in the Senate.

The following list, shows which Senators are retiring and which seats will be contested ( meaning the incumbent will spend millions of dollars, to keep the $174,000 a year they receive as salary ).

First, the list of Democrats/Independents retiring.

1. Joe Lieberman of Conneticut
2. Daniel Akaka of Hawaii
3. Ben Nelson of Nebraska
4. Jeff Bingaman of New Mexico
5. Kent Conrad of North Dakota
6. Jim Webb of Virginia
7. Herb Kohl of Wisconsin

Continuing list of Democrats/Independents seeking re-election

8. Dianne Feinstein of California
9. Tom Carper of Delaware
10. Bill Nelson of Florida
11. Ben Cardin of Maryland
12. Debbie Stabenow of Michigan
13. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota
14. Claire McCaskill of Missouri
15. Jon Tester of Montana
16. Bob Menendez of New Jersey
17. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York
18. Sherrod Brown of Ohio
19. Bob Casey Jr. of Pennsylvania
20. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island
21. Bernie Sanders of Vermont
22. Maria Cantwell of Washington State* Who received a loan in excess of 3 Million dollars in 2006 for her re-election campaign....a gross violation of campaign finances.
23. Joe Manchin of West Virginia

Republicans retiring:

24. Jon Kyl of Arizona
25. Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas

Republicans seeking re-election:

26. Richard Lugar of Indiana
27. Olympia Snowe of Maine
28. Scott Brown of Massachusetts
29. Roger Wicker of Mississippi
30. Dean Heller of Nevada
31. Bob Corker of Tennessee
32. Orrin Hatch of Utah
33. John Barrasso of Wyoming

  Do a little homework and see how many of the following Senators voted down the "Stock Act of 2011" and which Senators voted to repeal regulations regarding Carbon Dioxide Emissions, until other countries institute stronger regulation..thus proving that our Congress has coddled to big business in a bad way.


Now for the fun part of the post....from previous posts you know that over 50% of the US Congress are millionaires.  Here is a list of the 10 richest members of Congress.

http://www.rollcall.com/50richest/the-50-richest-members-of-congress-112th.html

The above link explains their "wealth" in more detail, and oft times, you will see that the "spouse" actually owns all or most of the wealth....yeah, right.

1. Rep. Michael McCall ( R-Texas )  $ 294.21 Million dollars
2. Rep. Darrel Issa ( R- California )  $ 220.40 Million dollars
3. Sen. John Kerry ( D- Massachusetts )  $ 193.07 Million dollars
4. Sen. Jay Rockefeller ( D- West Virginia )  $ 81.63 Million dollars
5. Sen. Mark Warner ( D-Virginia )  $ 76.30 Million dollars
6. Rep. Jared Polis ( D- Colorado )  $ 65.91 Million dollars
7. Sen. Frank Lautenberg ( D- New Jersey )  $ 55.07 Million dollars
8. Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conneticut )  $ 52.93 Million dollars
9. Sen. Dianne Feinstein ( D-California )  $ 45.39 Million dollars
10. Rep. Vern Buchanan ( R-Florida )  $ 44.21 Million dollars

  My intent was to show the 50 richest Congress People, but the darn computer here is acting up and not saving the document properly.  You can check out the link above this to see the rest of the list. 


Have a terrific day and an awesome weekend.....to be better informed is to be a better voter.


Trevor