Congressional Pay Goes Up Again
December 29th, 2008During 2008, salary for members of Congress has been $169,300. On January 1, 2009, it rises to $174,000. Every time the salary goes up, filing fees also go up, in the states in which the filing fee is a percentage of the salary.
December 29th, 2008 at 2:00 pm
Real Life is a lot like Mel Brooks’ movie “History of the World”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYqF_BtIwAU
December 29th, 2008 at 4:24 pm
Can Congress really be compared to real life?
And isn’t there an additional bit of hypocrisy that those silly bleeps get an automatic pay raise when they are wanting auto industry employees (notice I don’t say “workers”) to take a pay cut?
Both union members and members of Congress are irresponsible, though very much responsible for the disaster that afflicts our entire economy.
Between the two, I think Congress is more to blame, so members of Congress getting a pay raise when millions of people are out of work — more than two million since the Democrats took control of Congress, coincidentally enough — is downright criminal.
December 31st, 2008 at 11:16 am
Imagine getting a nice increase like that despite a 15% approval rating. Oh wait, in the private sector you probably would no longer have a job if you performed that poorly….
December 31st, 2008 at 11:20 am
Since I do not want to appear to be satisfied with just cracking jokes on Congress, I suggest that the third parties make a specific list of 3 representatives (in 2010) toward which all monies will be poured into campaigns to unelect them. By scattering money and time across a wide range of campaigns, the results end up the same. By using laser-like focus on a handful, it will gather the attention of our citizens when 3 to 5 of the Dems and Repub’s lose in 2010 to third party candidates.
December 31st, 2008 at 10:27 pm
Big time crook and current [Tucson] federal felon Randie ‘Puke’ Cunningham’s replacement, paper thin do nothing Brian Bilbray of Sandy Ego County……….
January 1st, 2009 at 4:03 pm
Elf Ninos Mom (“Last Free Voice”) Is Tamara Johnson from Huntington WV
badda bing badda bang badda boom
allahu akhbar