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Rep. Hastings: At $174,000 Per Year, Congressmen Not ‘Paid Appropriately’
Cybercast News Service ^ | June 14, 2016 | 10:50 AM EDT | Eric Scheiner

Posted on 06/16/2016 12:14:32 AM PDT by Olog-hai

Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-Fla.) says that people find it surprising that members of Congress are in “year nine without a cost of living increase” and House members who make $174,000 a year, are “deserving of being paid appropriately.” […]

“Some substantial number of members of this body are multi-millionaires, a significant number of members of this body easily qualify to be in the middle-class or the upper-class — and there are some members here who are in the lower-class in our society,” Hastings said. […]

According to the Center for Responsive Politics, the median net worth of a member of Congress was $1,029,505 in 2013, with 50.8 percent of the members of Congress ranked as millionaires. The U.S. Census Bureau reports that median income for a household in the U.S. was $53,657 in 2014. …

(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; US: District of Columbia; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: alceehastings; democrats; florida; liberalagenda; payraise
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To: Olog-hai

Rep. Alcee Hastings (Debt Slavemaster-Fla.) should be in federal prison with the other members of the Gang of 535.

Land of the thieves...

http://www.usdebtclock.org

…home of the slaves.


21 posted on 06/16/2016 2:07:27 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: Olog-hai

When you are not happy with your current compensation at your current employer, then go seek new a new employer like the rest of us do.


22 posted on 06/16/2016 2:23:54 AM PDT by castlegreyskull
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To: Olog-hai

sez the convicted felon and only judge ever impeached since the civil war....


23 posted on 06/16/2016 2:50:22 AM PDT by rrrod (just an old guy with a gun in his pocket.l)
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To: Olog-hai

Maybe instead of term limits we should have “wealth limits”. Once you have snorted a certain amount from the trough you have to go home.


24 posted on 06/16/2016 2:59:10 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: nickedknack
Alcee Hastings?! Alcee Hastings? The impeached and convicted former federal judge who took a $150k bribe from the Mafia?! Yes, *that* Alcee Hastings.

I was wondering if someone would mention that.
Happened while I was still in S. Fla. when that happened.

He was building a house and putting in gold plated plumbing fixtures.

And then the stupid people of Fla elect this crook to Congress.

Wouldn't surprise me if he was running another 'game' and trying to justify it.
"I had to do something, I'm not paid a living wage"

25 posted on 06/16/2016 3:06:23 AM PDT by Vinnie
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To: Olog-hai

174k would be okay if no member could serve more than one term and no session could last more than three months and one session a year. Senators and congressmen should also lose a thousand dollars per page over 2 pages in any bill passed in one year.


26 posted on 06/16/2016 3:15:25 AM PDT by arthurus
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To: W.

Too dumb to steal!


27 posted on 06/16/2016 3:25:19 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: Olog-hai

This a hoot coming from a former federal judge who was removed from the bench for criminal behaviour and has somehow convinced his black constituents to reward his misbehavior on the bench with a seat in Congress. I guess they “love” the fact that “he’s getting over on whitey!” The man is pond scum!


28 posted on 06/16/2016 3:34:40 AM PDT by vette6387
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To: Olog-hai

Look at the increases in Social Security over the same time period. Net = ZERO, after paying increased Medicare costs.


29 posted on 06/16/2016 3:39:32 AM PDT by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
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To: Olog-hai

Cut them to about 50k per year ...


30 posted on 06/16/2016 3:40:45 AM PDT by NorthMountain (A plague o' both your houses.)
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To: Olog-hai

Most people, if they don’t feel they are being paid enough, go out and find another job. Maybe Hastings should consider that?


31 posted on 06/16/2016 3:44:00 AM PDT by Lower Deck
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To: Olog-hai

The honor of service alone should be sufficient.


32 posted on 06/16/2016 3:46:34 AM PDT by Jim Noble (The polls can have a strong influence on the weak-minded)
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To: gunsequalfreedom
"they have to maintain two residents at their expense, that take a chunk out of the high salary"

Fair enough. So how 'bout this solution:

Give them a "cost of living" adjustment. Their salary should equal the US median family income. THAT should give them a great incentive to improve the economy!

As for their "two homes". Give them an expense account equal to the cost of staying in a DC Motel 6 for every day that congress is in session, and no more than coach air fare back to their homes when it is not.

33 posted on 06/16/2016 3:50:17 AM PDT by norwaypinesavage (The Stone Age did not end because we ran out of stones)
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To: Olog-hai
members of Congress are in “year nine without a cost of living increase”

Well, then, how about after nine years just leave and go get a real job?

-PJ

34 posted on 06/16/2016 4:04:03 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: Olog-hai

Hastings should have been repatriated to Liberia long ago.


35 posted on 06/16/2016 4:05:47 AM PDT by IChing (Nuke Mecca already)
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To: norwaypinesavage

How ‘bout congressional barracks? That would incentivize the parasites to get out of D.C. as quickly as possible, and, hopefully, lessen the legislative damage they do each and every session.


36 posted on 06/16/2016 4:10:47 AM PDT by Flag_This (You can't spell "treason" without the "O".)
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To: Olog-hai
I will once again offer my longstanding suggestion to the next president. Announce on day one that every Member of Congress, every governor, the majority and minority leaders of every state legislature, and the mayors and ranking city council members of every city with more than 500,000 population will be subjected to the IRS's "audit from hell." Every year. Regardless of party. Forever. And follow that up with one's proposed tax reform, which should in principle make taxes simple enough, and fair enough, that the audit from hell should not be intimidating.

As far as congressional pay in concerned, I like the idea of paying Members of Congress the average of what they earned in the four years prior to running for Congress. There is no particular reason they all should be paid the same thing. Pay them according to their station in the private sector. The underlying assumption would be that they are citizens taking a few years out of their regular lives, to which they will soon return. They have mortgages, credit card bills, and kids in school. They should not have to wreck their family finances to serve. But there is no reason they should expect to get rich either. If they're still in wealth accumulation mode, they should stay in the private sector to begin with.

I do recognize the two-residence issue, so I would also pay Members a housing allowance for the duration of their stay in DC. I have no desire to be punitive, so I'd make this generous enough for Members to live on or near Capitol Hill, which has become an expensive neighborhood. (This is a new thing in the history of the Hill, which tickles longtime residents no end.) I wouldn't inflict the commute from Gaithersburg, Haymarket, or Occoquon on anyone, even a Member of Congress.

37 posted on 06/16/2016 4:13:07 AM PDT by sphinx
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To: Dr. Ursus

Considering many of them bring much blactivism into government, most of them are stealing—our time and money! I do agree with you, they aren’t competent enough to survive off one of the government’s teats in the real world!


38 posted on 06/16/2016 4:15:26 AM PDT by W. (Screw it. Send in the Marines! NOW!)
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To: Olog-hai

yes they do deserve to be “paid appropraitely”

SO THE SALARY AND TOTAL EXPENSES SHOULD BE ABOUT $25000 and that is being generous...

nowhere on the face of the earth is there a more useless congregation and coalescing of crooks, thiefs, conmen, liars, immoral, self centered deceiving scumbags destroying America...and FREEDOM...
THAN WASHINGTON DC AND ENVIRONS.....


39 posted on 06/16/2016 4:24:38 AM PDT by zzwhale
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To: faithhopecharity
"...We may as well just cancel all wages and benefits for the jobs..."

Even if that could somehow be accomplished, the kickbacks and bribery, as well as outright theft that these scummy bastards get away with, would preclude any of them from leaving their seat.

In today's America, elective office is simply a license to steal.

40 posted on 06/16/2016 4:27:38 AM PDT by skimbell
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