While congress is complaing to finacial companies that they are receivinmg pay and bonuses that are not based on performance, they gave themselves their annaul pay raise. The raise comes out to 4700 bucks. Now with a performace rating of less then 23% maybe they should refuse or cut their increase based on what the folks they work for think of them. The writer of this article thinks the former.
Members of Congress will return to Washington after Christmas with a lavish $4,700 stocking stuffer in their paychecks. It’s the automatic salary increase that kicks off at the start of 2009. Surely those of us who are paying for it would agree-the raises are hardly performance-based! When Congress adjourned this month, it did so with a drab 20% approval rating. After helping spend America into a recession that’s cost millions of Americans their jobs, Congress wants more compensation for their own! Adding to the pain, Democratic leaders plan to convene in January with a “stimulus” plan that could strip another trillion dollars in debt from already struggling families over the next two years. The proposal is lined with new spending projects for roads, infrastructure, “green” building projects, school beautification, and, potentially, government-controlled health care. For a snapshot of just how “essential” the line-items are, the National Taxpayers Union combed through the wish lists and found this gem. In Alexandria, Virginia, the mayor (one of many vying for “emergency funds”) requested $2.4 million to make the trolley motors hybrid and replace the contractors who drive them with unionized city employees. Of course, Congress greased the wheels for this sort of waste with its $152 billion package in February and $700 billion bailout seven months later. Contact your leaders and tell them to stop the spending madness. If Congress doesn’t know where to start, I do. Refuse the $2,514,500 in Capitol Hill pay raises
Source: us.mc526.mail.yahoo.com
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