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No, this is not satire. It is real. Check out the link. It is a story from today's news on Capitol Hill.

She is quite a piece of work, isn't she?

Sadly, I think her comments reflect the sentiment of most people in Congress, Republicans as well as Democrats.

I guess she believes that "paycuts are good for thee, but not for me."

Many federal workers facing furloughs are veterans

"If the federal government is forced to furlough civilian employees in the event of sequestration, the burden will fall heavily on a population that Congress and the White House have vowed to support: veterans.

More than two out of five of the approximately 800,000 Department of Defense employees facing furloughs are veterans, Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said Wednesday.

“Forty-four percent of them are veterans,” Carter told the House Armed Services Committee during a hearing on the potential effect of sequestration on the military. ”Very soon we’re going to have to furlough the great majority of them.”

The Pentagon expects to furlough its civilian employees for the maximum statutory length of 22 days between the beginning of April and the end of the year, Carter said. That will amount to 20 percent of their pay, he noted.

I will say this for Ashton Carter, the Deputy Secretary of Defense: he went on the records before the House and Senate Armed Services Committees this week and said that even though he is a political appointee and exempt from furloughs, he would voluntarily take a 20% paycut like every other DoD employee in the event of sequestration.

How many people think member of the White House, Congress, and their staffers would do the same?

I bet if they were facing a paycut, they would have a deal on entitlement reform and federal spending so quick it would make your head spin.

1 posted on 02/14/2013 5:21:03 PM PST by SkyPilot

She should have her own comedy special on HBO or Showtime.

2 posted on 02/14/2013 5:23:07 PM PST by Publius

This corrupt old skank is talking about DIGNITY???? What a bad joke.

3 posted on 02/14/2013 5:23:07 PM PST by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)

Truly bizarre coming from a millionaire liar and thief. Just plain bizarre. But she still has to take money from the “little folks.” Sicko!

4 posted on 02/14/2013 5:24:47 PM PST by laweeks

I think we should respect the work we do,”.............. OH really? Just what have you accomplished that deserves such respect? Like most of us, I thought this was a Semmens article.

5 posted on 02/14/2013 5:25:18 PM PST by Bringbackthedraft (Who we elect is not as important as who they bring in with them.)

“We have to pass it ... so we can find out what is in it.”

6 posted on 02/14/2013 5:25:18 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)

I don’t think we should pay politicans anything. Once they’re elected, they have all kinds of dough rolling in through backroom deals and schemes. They don’t need taxpayer dollars.

7 posted on 02/14/2013 5:25:18 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Now Playing. Obama II - The Revenge of My Father.)

dignity?

Congress?

Sheila Bat**** Lee, Baby Hooker Menendez.... are there any big name Dems who aren’t insane?

9 posted on 02/14/2013 5:27:07 PM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)

This MORON has no concept of her own position!

The founders created congress to be a SERVICE; a TEMPORARY SERVICE position, not a means for these folks to sit for 20+ years getting rich like they do now.

SHAME on you Californians who keep this piece of crap in office.

10 posted on 02/14/2013 5:28:32 PM PST by joethedrummer

11 posted on 02/14/2013 5:30:09 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)

12 posted on 02/14/2013 5:30:21 PM PST by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)

she’s looking like emperor palpatine more and more.
and hillary’s going full-bore jabba the hut.

16 posted on 02/14/2013 5:38:17 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)

The jokes write themselves....

18 posted on 02/14/2013 5:41:10 PM PST by S.O.S121.500 (Half black,half white.........SKUNK?........................ENFORCE THE BILL OF RIGHTS.)

20 posted on 02/14/2013 5:43:01 PM PST by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)

“the work we do”

WHAT WORK?! This scum-sucking libturd is one of the most annoying in congress. Choke that paycut down, Swine Piglosi. That’s for sending my tax dollars to LG Chem and abortion doctors.

21 posted on 02/14/2013 5:43:31 PM PST by Viennacon

The hag should be reduced to her base salary and sufficient funds for travel on Southwest Airlines to Dulles twice per month. Let he cover her own lodging costs in DC...in the same undignified fashion that I've endured in San Diego since June 2009. Her booze soaked parties can come out of her pocket too. The only "staff" she deserves is the one that doubles as her witch's broomstick.

22 posted on 02/14/2013 5:45:01 PM PST by Myrddin

Communists deserve no respect.

27 posted on 02/14/2013 5:51:32 PM PST by I want the USA back

My first and unfiltered thought: What does a pig at a feeding bin know about dignity.

Pelosi is a pig, fat, greedy pig.

28 posted on 02/14/2013 5:52:00 PM PST by Truth2012

Someone please advise madam pelosi that anyone that associates with her, reid, or the 0bama regime has forfeited any dignity that they may have ever had.

30 posted on 02/14/2013 5:55:19 PM PST by 21st Century Crusader (August 26, 1191)

I agree with her. Members of Congress are among the lowest paid criminals in the country, ranking down with people who steal candy from babies. It’s just not right, criminal activity used to enjoy much more respect than it does now. Look at Tony Soprano, he was admired by everyone in America, and our criminal Congress Critters deserve this at the very least.

31 posted on 02/14/2013 5:58:03 PM PST by centurion316

Ah, yes.

Mrs. Pelosi lectures us hard-working taxpayers on the “dignity of lawmakers' jobs” ?

It is not possible to make this "stuff" up.

34 posted on 02/14/2013 6:08:11 PM PST by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)

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