Congress.. Living the thug life.. Can you imagine if you tell your boss that you are only working 111 days per year and the remainder of the year that you expect to be paid? I don’t think so. Your boss would show you to the door with a pink slip. Time for the American people to fire their Congress person, regardless of political party, who is not working for you.

Here is the 2016 Congressional calendar:

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s supervisory actions resulted in $107 million in relief to more than 238,000 consumers, according to the ninth edition of its Supervisory Highlights.

The report outlines the illegal practices uncovered by the bureau’s examiners from May 2015 to August 2015. Check here for coverage over the CFPB’s eighth edition.

During this period, the bureau found violations in the student loan servicing, mortgage origination and servicing, consumer reporting, and debt collection markets.

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Earlier this month, it was reported that less than two weeks before the economic collapse of 2008, several members of Congress took their money out of the stock market. Many high-ranking government employees were given a heads-up about the impending market crash in secret meetings with the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department. Then they used that information to engage in insider trading.

It was revealed that Senator Shelley Capito and her husband sold $350,000 worth of Citigroup stock at $83 per share, just one day before the stock dropped to $64 per share. Another shady trader was Congressman Jim Moran, who had his biggest trading day of the year days after the secret meeting, sellings stock in nearly 100 different companies.

These actions would be illegal for any American in any other circumstance, but members of Congress and high-ranking government officials are actually exempt from insider trading laws.

According to a recent report from RealtyTrac, the state of New Jersey has more zombie foreclosures than any other, and now, the state’s two senators are asking why the problem is so bad and what can be done about it.

In a letter sent last week to the heads of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Federal Reserve Board, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, theFederal Housing Finance Agency and others, Sens. Cory Booker, D-NJ, and Robert Menendez, D-NJ, say that the prevalence of zombie foreclosures in the state is seriously impacting the state’s residents and its economy, and they want to know what the federal regulators are going to do about it.

“One of the enduring lessons of the Great Recession and the resulting foreclosure crisis is that economic problems are not confined with the four walls of a home,” Booker and Menendez…