Elected Officials Pay

 

I want to address an unpopular topic, elected official’s pay. We tend to attract failed lawyers and thieves. People there to line their pockets. The American government has become no more than a den of thieves. Just look at the fraud that has been uncovered. It is staggering. Why…?

I’ll tell you why….. The president makes 400,000 dollars a year. The President…. That’s sad…. He President of all fifty states, he presides over the American economy and is Commander and Chief of our armed forces… and he paid 400,000 dollars a year. (The fellow we have now is exceptional.)

How much does Elon Mush make, or the head of Ford, the head of Jeep, the head of Boeing, Hummm…? The fellow that runs a single Dow Chemical Plant makes more money than the President. Why..? Because he is responsible for the output of the whole plant, every unit. He is responsible for every employee’s safety and output. He is responsible for the plant’s budget, the plant’s payroll the plant’s moral.

Think about what the President does… Just what is he worth? Now think about the congress, what? 180,000 dollars a year….and all you can steal. Their colleges in the private sector are doing much better. Much better, save the money they’re stealing.

If you want the country to run like a well oiled machine, than you have to be willing to pay for it. Because they are so woefully underpaid, we attract failed lawyers and money grubbers, people who can’t really make it in the private sector, because they lack the talent. Why do we want them in government?

The people who can make a company run, and run it well...have a job, a good job. Paying a hell of a lot more than elected government service. And he doesn’t get dragged through the mud by the media every time you turn around. He’s not going to run for public office…. He’s not going to take a cut in pay and deal with the assholes in the media. He’s not going to do it…….Unless you’re willing to pay him what he’s worth.

We always bitch when congress gives themselves a raise, and they never give themselves much of one. They know better, if they raised the pay to a proper level the JOB calls for, they know they’d be out of work right quick, and off the gravy-train they’ve built. So you see…. They know. And they will fight to keep their little gravy train, because that is all they know.

How to fix it..? I don’t really know. The house & senate will never give themselves such a raise, because it would attract talent to run against them. I think it’s something the President himself needs to address, draft and push as we drain the swamp.

George Henry Nichols

May 2026

A letter for Ben

                                                             

Hey Ben,

I going to take a shot at why we don’t hang Bill Clinton, and I could be wrong, it ain’t over yet.

Nothing will ruin something useful, like a committee. In their hearts, people know this, one God, one creation. As a result, we’ve always tended to have kings. Why? Because a people, a culture needs a direction, it needs ideas, it need problem solving. These thing can be debated and resolved through committees, but who going to lead? Who going to say, let’s do it, and who’s going to take the blame. That takes a strong, smart, courageous man, a king. He is also the face of the people, of the culture, dare I say it, the standard. As the king does, the peoples do. Shit flows downhill.

So within a culture, the king is top dawg, which translate to the face of the people among nations. He speaks for the whole of the people when dealing with other peoples. Peoples talk to peoples, by kings talking to kings. It’s the way it’s done. It’s tradition. So…..??? Killing the king? Is like killing the people. Ever play chess?

In the early 1200’s the king (I believe of England) kind of run a-muck, and the people got fed up with him and drew up the Magna Charter, and spelled out just what the king could and could not do, and they shoved it up his ass. They didn’t kill him, or depose of him, he was the king, they simply made it clear who was in charge, really, and he’d better ACT like a king or else.

Come along about 1380 pretty much the same thing happened, the king run-a-muck and they had to read him the riot act. They actually had him at sword point, and read it to him, and he so agreed. Again, they didn’t kill him or depose of him, after all he’s the king, he’s us.

The along about the mid-1600’s a fellow named Cromwell came along, a communist, (even though the term wasn’t in use yet,) and they killed King Charles the first and took over. Well it didn’t take long to find out they knew nothing, and that running a country was a big deal, and things were soon a mess, and the people got fed up again and killed ole Cromwell and ask Charles the second to take the crown. He didn't want it, “You killed my dad, you killed Cromwell, your hero, no I don’t want it.” Well they begged him, cause they had nobody else, and after long debates and agreements, no killing the king, Charles the second so agreed.

Things were shaky up until the great fire of London 1666 when the king proved himself king, and England again moving forward.

Come 1776, the colonist were thinking George the third wasn’t treating them as he ought. So they were considering deposing of him, but you can’t just do that, and stand in the world, you have to have a face, a standard, in short, a king. What were they going to do about that.

Well they did what they knew, They created a House of Lords, The elites, (The Senate) who see the bigger picture. They created the House of Commons, the many people who see it up close, who make it happen, who have the problems and live on and off the land. (House of Representatives) And so they created a King, the visionary, the guy that sees and controls the whole picture. The guy that’s got to talk to other kings, and stand their (our) ground, strike deals, make the decisions and take the blame. It’s a hell-of-a-job. (The President).

I guess my point is, it’s tradition, he was our king, he was us (so to speak). We can’t kill ourselves. We knew he was dirt when we put him in there. He was a dumb-ass hillbilly we made king, and to hold him up cause he couldn’t do the job? That ain’t right. He did what he knew, ‘he grabbed what he could.’

Now the wicked witch that follows him around on a broom, casting evil spells on everyone. She’s another story. She was never king, to good to be queen, so she just a criminal,

That’s the best I can do Ben on short notice. But I know how ya feel. Don’t think I don’t. And the rest of the cast members, they just criminals, and should be treated as such. But Bill, he was king, he was us, but he’s gone, and you can bet he’s a dragging chains with him, will to his grave. Let’s pray he repents.

Carter was another hillbilly that should not have been king. We have to remember, or learn who the president is, he is the KING even if for a short while. But for that time he is us. We need to be careful who we be making king.

Anyway Yours in Christ

George Henry Nichols

January 16, 2025