Teaparty Congressman Collects Disability From His Union Job ($92,273 in 2010)

[Omaha Steve]

http://ezkool.com/2011/08/chip-cravaack-disability-payments/

On August 23, 2011, in Insanity, by Ezra Grant

Rep. Chip Cravaack won the midterm elec­tion for Min­nesota in 2010, thanks in part to his extreme Tea­party plat­form. The newly elected con­gress­man even voted for the Paul Ryan Tea­party backed bud­get, that will end medicare and replace it with a voucher pro­gram which seniors would be expected to use to sat­isfy their health needs.

But a lit­tle over­looked fact about Chip Cravaack is that he worked as a pilot for the North­west Air­lines as recently as 2007 and being a pilot means that you are a mem­ber of a Union, thus receiv­ing the ben­e­fits of union nego­ti­ated salaries, vaca­tions and ulti­mately, dis­abil­ity payments.

Recent finan­cial records released by Cravaack showed that he received $92,273 in 2010 from dis­abil­ity pay­ments he received from North­west. At this very same time Cravaack was receiv­ing his checks, he was cam­paign­ing in Min­nesota promis­ing to end “big gov­ern­ment,” and often using the usual Repub­li­can talk­ing points of bash­ing unions.

Oh, and by the way, Chip Cravaack is also a vet­eran, which means that in addi­tion to his gov­ern­ment pro­vided health care in Con­gress, he also gets ben­e­fits from the VA, allow­ing him to go to any government-owned Veteran’s Admin­is­tra­tion facil­ity in the nation and receive what he and Tea­party calls, “social­ized medicine.”

Only in Amer­ica. You just gotta love this!

[hobbit709]

1. The Republican Mantra: I got mine and screw you.

[The Magistrate]

2. Sounds Like He Is Defrauding Someone, Sir....

[Scuba]

3. No, just campaigning against the policies that help him and other union members. n/t

[The Magistrate]

5. Sounds Awfully Active For a Fella On Disability Pension, Sir...

[Scuba]

6. It doesn't take much to disable a pilot. n/t

[The Magistrate]

7. Still, Sir, The Angle Cries Out For Investigation

Fraud and abuse in these things is a major concern of tea-baggers....

[pinboy3niner]

4. You should post this in GD, Steve

K&R :thumbsup: