It's not enough that we have bailed out corporation after corporation, it's apparently immaterial that our wages have stagnated for years, it apparently doesn't occur to those who failed to freeze their wages that in a country on the brink of a depression (if we're not already there) with record home foreclosures that allowing their automatic raise to stand at this time would be inappropriate (to be polite). No -- our incredibly ineffective legislators need a raise! Congress has stopped their automatic pay increases before -- why not now? Incredible.
http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/with-economy-in-shambles-congress-gets-a-raise-2008-12-17.htmlA crumbling economy, more than 2 million constituents who have lost their jobs this year, and congressional demands of CEOs to work for free did not convince lawmakers to freeze their own pay.
Instead, they will get a $4,700 pay increase, amounting to an additional $2.5 million that taxpayers will spend on congressional salaries, and watchdog groups are not happy about it.
“As lawmakers make a big show of forcing auto executives to accept just $1 a year in salary, they are quietly raiding the vault for their own personal gain,” said Daniel O’Connell, chairman of The Senior Citizens League (TSCL), a non-partisan group. “This money would be much better spent helping the millions of seniors who are living below the poverty line and struggling to keep their heat on this winter.”
(more at link)
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