Posted on 08/29/2011 6:25:05 PM PDT by SoCal SoCon
That should havebeen funfan!
Send them home 6 months a year and that would essentially double their pay and it would lower the cost of fedzilla.
While we’re at it, toss in term limits.
I have no problem with paying them, but why don’t we let the states do it, after all, they represent us!
Then we cut out all pension rights. I don’t care if you serve for 40 years, no pension. That will effectively impose term limits right there.
Third, no health insurance.
Fourth. Travel costs can be part of a stipend they receive. If they want to go on an overseas “fact finding” mission, it needs to come out of the same budget.
Come to think of it, they really don’t even need to go to DC. They can do everything by videoconference and remain where they, and constituents, live.
And they whine that they need to be paid more.
It’s always ‘more’.
We’re being told to tighten our belts, eat our peas etc, and they keep voting themselves pay raises.
There needs to be some restrictions on that.
Congress wasn’t supposed to be a money making scheme.
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