[Bring_Back_Shantz]

Originally Posted by Erick Estrada

It's kind of annoying how you are focussing on a small part of my original post that didn't really have anything to do with smart people not moving into politics. I see I hit a nerve as this pension talk is dear to you but you are kind of taking the discussion in a totally different direction.

I don't really have a dog in the rest of the discussion.

I just pointed it out because for a lot of people it's a big bone of contention when it comes to what politicians make/the benefits they get.
A bone of contention, that almost everyone misunderstands, almost no one looks into, but almost everyone just repeats verbatim because it sounds good.

I just think its annoying because it's something people throw out all the time, when a simple google search is all it takes to actually find out if it's true.