Posted on 06/28/2007 8:47:04 AM PDT by angelcindy
Make that 14%...
and they want a payraise!!!
This should help balance the budget :)
NO!
Pay them two million a year...and make them fund their campaigns 100% out of their own pockets. ;)
`scuse me Boss, but I’d like a fat pay raise!
Any chance of that happening?
Sure tumblindice, you deserve every penny of it!
Thanks, tumblindice! I don’t care what anyone says—you’re all right!
433 x 4,460 + 2 x 4,954 (if the two party leaders get the same 2.7 increase) = $1,941,088. i know my math isnt the best and im sure i forgot to carry the one somewhere.
Oh i agree...they deserve nuffin!!
Heck, if you could force every member of Congress out of their fenced homes of safety and back into the areas common, I’d bet you that ninety percent of the fertilizer that comes out of Congress would dry back up. They’d see, first hand, day in and day out, what their misguided ideals has brought forward.
Their logic is thus: “Our approval rating can’t get much worse...it must be OK to take a pay raise....”
Employers (taxpayers) to House Members: No.
While I’m certainly not happy with the performance of the House of Representatives, let me point out something to everybody on this thread.
A small business owner like myself, making a six figure income from my endeavors, can’t afford the pay cut a run for elective office that would result.
Its a fact, folks. Thats why we keep getting freakin megawealthy trail lawyers as House members, Senators, and yep, even Presidents.
Think about it. Its not a pay raise for this congress if you vote them out in 2008.
If they have families, I have no issue with them wanting a private home of their own. If single or just a spouse, sure, have them in a common area.
I've said the same thing. Those advocating a token salary like 10 grand a year fail to realize that would guarantee that only the rich become Congressmen even moreso than it occurs now.
To be quite honest, 170 grand a year in DC isn't as great as it sounds. You could live the same standard of living on 90 grand in Iowa as 170 grand in DC. Now, that's not poor in any way and is a nice living, but let's not make it into something it's not.
‘To be quite honest, 170 grand a year in DC isn’t as great as it sounds. You could live the same standard of living on 90 grand in Iowa as 170 grand in DC. Now, that’s not poor in any way and is a nice living, but let’s not make it into something it’s not.’
Exactly my point. Thanks, I figured I would get flamed for the post.
Here is your pay raise, see this middle finger?
Originally from Akron, now living in the DC/Baltimore corridor. It’s definitely costing me a lot more to live here. Although, in my line of work I’ll make a lot more money once I get established.
‘Originally from Akron, now living in the DC/Baltimore corridor. It’s definitely costing me a lot more to live here. Although, in my line of work I’ll make a lot more money once I get established.’
Gotcha. I’m in wonderful Brown County, almost due south of Akron 16 miles north of the Ohio River (Ripley on Ohio side, Maysville on the KY side).
$170K here is Big Money, but as we both know, that gets you a studio apartment in DC. Then there is all the expense of maintaining two homes, one in DC and one in your district, compounded by the ‘usual expenses’ like college for kids, etc.
Does anyone know if people in congress get living allowances for housing, etc... similar to the way military people do?
As far as the pay raise goes... they haven’t done anything to earn it.
NO. We’ll throw them all out and hire illegals instead. They work cheap.
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