[SkyPilot]

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."

Related:

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.

[TigersEye]

With dignity like that prostitutes and thieves can hold their heads high.

[CharlesMartelsGhost]

[Phlap]

Apart from legit expenses, there should be no compensation for public service. Of course fewer would be willing to do the job but those who do would be doing it for(as they see it) the right reasons.

[Chode]

but it wants the Military to take a pay cut...

[MuttTheHoople]

Nobody’s mentioned this, but when she talks she sounds like the stupidest person on earth. Total, complete, utter retard. I don’t understand why Repblicans are so afraid of he/she/it.

[PGalt]

DEPOPULATE socialists from the body politic.

“Socialism Is Legal Plunder” - Bastiat

http://www.usdebtclock.org

It’s time for Citizens Internal Revenue Service (CIRS) to start confiscating all assets of politicians past and present as debt repayment.

Surely 535 patriots can be found to serve without pay, healthcare, perks, benefits, insurance, etc., etc., and then go home to their real jobs.

[tina07]

Hey Nazi Pelosi Bitch, my husband has been working for HALF of what he was making before you and Bozo frigged things up, and that’s when there has been work which there hasn’t been much over the last four years. His union tile job disappeared June 2009, along with our medical coverage, pension contributions, annuities, etc.

How would you like to make HALF to NONE of your juicy salary Bitch???

I deplore these bastards.

[SuziQ]

"I don't think we should do it; I think we should respect the work we do," Pelosi told reporters in the Capitol. "I think it's necessary for us to have the dignity of the job that we have rewarded."

Nancy Pelosi diminishes the dignity of the job simply by being in that office.

[BookmanTheJanitor]

A legacy of corruption and failure and she’s worried about dignity???

[Ms. Blunt]

I think they should be paid minimum wage. They are basically unskilled workers not fit for the job market.

[Gene Eric]

Dignity? That presumes the respect everyone knows is non-existent.

[Terry Mross]

All of them are telling the people “SCREW YOU!” She says they need to respect themselves. Unbelievable.