A crumbling economy, more than 2 million constituents who have lost their jobs this year, and congressional demands of CEOs to work for free did not convince lawmakers to freeze their own pay.
Instead, they will get a $4,700 pay increase, amounting to an additional $2.5 million that taxpayers will spend on congressional salaries
Our Do Nothing Congress Gives Themselves $4,700 pay increases
Posted by Pam
on 12/19/2008
4 Comments.
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What are they thinking. With all the country in recession they are still spending our tax money. We the voters should stand together and vote them all out.
Those worthless bums should be shown the door in the next election these prilaged bunch think they deserve a pay raise for sitting on their backsides doing nothing and the demacrooks deserve to lose their jobs
Oh yes, this kind of thing is happening all over. Want to see the end result of democratic rule? Check out Maryland. 67,000 state employees are going to be furloughed. Seems O’Malleydidn’t get the tax revenues he thought he would with all the new taxes including a 6 cent sales tax.
He got a raise last year though and his appointees in the public works took a $30,000 a year raise.
Yup, those sneaky politicians. Love to give away Joe the Plumbers money and stick the screws in the little guy.