Friday, December 19, 2008

With Tough Economic Times - Guess Who Is getting a Pay Raise?

You Guessed It - Members of Congress
A 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.

Because the language I would use at this point would not be .... um ... nice, I will have more to say later about this!

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