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Dan8267
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2013 Feb 28, 8:42am
Congress should be allowed to set its own salary. Instead, their salaries should be based on Congress's approval rating.
Of course, most senators make most their money under the table in exchange for legislation. We'd need a way to stop that. I vote for prison terms.
curious2
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2013 Feb 28, 8:56am
Dan, if you proofread your comment, I think you'll find you're missing a couple of words.
After all, we pay their salaries
Just try to get a bill introduced to curtail congressional salaries and see how far it goes.
New Renter
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2013 Feb 28, 10:19am
After all, we pay their salaries
Just try to get a bill introduced to curtail congressional salaries and see how far it goes.
Executive order!
TechGromit
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2013 Feb 28, 10:33am
I know this much, if they don't resolve this situation within a month, I'll be likely looking for a job as a government contractor.
curious2
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2013 Feb 28, 10:42am
(1) No salary for any federal legislator or executive until they enact a balanced budget. (2) In situations where Congress has failed to pass any budget at all, and the entire government is facing sequester or shutdown, each legislator shall be waterboarded weekly until such time as a budget is passed. (Due to the lack of a budget, the waterboarding will need to be conducted by unpaid volunteers, of which there will likely be many.)
curious2
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2013 Feb 28, 10:56am
I worked for the USDA, and would have been effected by both the sequester, and the proposal you just made.
Which proposal? Are federal legislators and executives also working inside federal agencies?
Vicente
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2013 Feb 28, 2:04pm
Too much money goes to defense contractors.
Merely speaking this aloud, marks you as a traitor in our midst. Expect a brace of young men with flag pins on their lapels, to disembark from their Escalades and CORRECT you on how War Money is never waste.
Congressmen/women and Senators don't really care about their salaries. What they care about is the salary they will make when they pass through the revolving door into lobbying or corporate management. Their own salaries are merely a temporary stipend and most are wealthy enough on their own to not even need that. They like the little guy threatening their pay and perks. Take away their ability to cash in after their term is up or they're forced to resign and you'd hear some real hollaring.
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http://pac.signon.org/sign/paycuts%2Dfor%2Dcongress%2D1?source=mo&id=63488-13509361-dBe1O_x
Petition Background
The across-the-board cuts set to go into effect at the end of the week will hurt the economy, and they should be stopped. But if Congress insists on cutting anyone's salary, they should cut their own paychecks first.
In fact, they have proposed a 20% across-the-board pay cut for 800,000 federal employees - all while leaving their salaries safely intact. If hard working employees will see an unexpected pay cut because Congress can’t get its own job done, shouldn’t our Congress members also see a pay cut?
After all, we pay their salaries.
As a state politician in Maine, I am seeing first-hand the devastating impact these cuts will have on our local communities. Why should our Congressional representatives not feel some of the pain, if they're so convinced that cuts are the answer? The least they can do is cut their own salaries first.