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Is this guy joking? Please tell me this is a belated April Fools
Royalty should earn more than the peasants. Oh, wait. I think we rebelled against that sort of thing awhile back.
big joke
how much they get in freebies?
Congressman Moran,
Please read the Constitution . It was never meant to be a lifetime job.
Check out Dingy Hairy's wealth accumulation over the years to see that he makes plenty-o-dollar$.
Let the American People have a say in your pay, first dip stick!
tell them to go find a real job.
A winning Senator spends on average $10 million for his campaign. If he’s primaried the price goes up. (John McCain spent 23 million on his last primary fight alone.) A winning Representative spends, on average $3.1 million dollars, assuming no primary fight.
With few exceptions Representatives and Senators increase their net value exponentially above their “pay” during their time in office. They run, apparently, not for the pay but for the perks.
Perhaps they are underpaid but the bennies, especially the insider trading, more than makes up for it. Amazing how many millionares are created from those measily salaries.
Elected representatives should make the median imcome of their respective districts. For example, a Federal Senator representing Illinois should make the average salary from that state. And if that means the special little piggy can’t live in DC - then boo hoo. We have the technology to make the virtual commute from home.
There are a very small handful who who aren’t soaking up millions on the side. For that small handful, $170,000 or whatever isn’t huge money
Maybe we should do the democrat thing and go with to each according to his needs. We could stop paying 90% of them and let them fund the remaining 10%.
...you just ain't doing something right!
“Members of Congress Underpaid” is kinda surprising coming from James Moran who is retiring from Congress.
We usually hear this from a member who has been caught or indited for receiving bribes.
But, there may be more to his retirement than we have heard.
There’s the joke of the century. Congress hasn’t passed a budget in over 6 years, we are up to our eyeballs in debt and insane new laws and regulations. They all need to be fired not given a raise.
Maybe he should do everyone a favor and go find another job?
Fine he wants a per diem, we provide a dormitory with ten guys per room in bunk beds with a common bath and shower down the hall.
We change the time in the legislature to the months of July October and September to do the budget and get their business done and go home.
Of course we would not have Air Conditioning in the dorms so they get a sense of urgency to do their jobs and go home where they do less damage.
I wish I could find a job that pays that much where I have a staff that does all my work and I just have to “vote” occasionally, play golf, travel the world, write a book, and hang out.