Hey DeLay.... Where's the "adjustment" for the rest of us?!?

[cyberpj]

Must be nice to work where you can just give yourself a raise. Remember when this was public service work? So what about my adjustment to be able to afford the year after year increases in health care that reduce my pay? How about a pay raise for the minimum wagers? Where's the "adjustment" for the rest of us!?

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House Agrees to $3,100 Pay Raise for 2006

Jun 28, 6:02 PM (ET)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The House on Tuesday agreed to a $3,100 pay raise for Congress next year - to $165,200 - after defeating an effort to roll it back.

In a 263-152 vote, the House blocked a bid by Rep. Jim Matheson, D-Utah, to force an up-or-down vote on the pay raise. Instead, lawmakers will automatically receive the raise - officially a cost of living adjustment - as provided for in a 1989 law that barred them from pocketing big speaking fees in exchange for an annual COLA.

Matheson was the only one of 434 House members to speak out against the 1.9 percent COLA, which will raise members' salaries in January.

"Now is not the time for members of Congress to be voting themselves a pay raise. We need to be willing to make sacrifices," he said.

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"It's not a pay raise," said House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas. "It's an adjustment so that they're not losing their purchasing power."

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050628/D8B0SHN00.html

[HysteryDiagnosis]

1. How do "millionaires" lose their purchasing power??? Just wondering.

[cyberpj]

2. Especially when just about everything they do is "comped" somehow.

It's just unreal.

[cyberpj]

3. kick