Posted on 03/15/2009 12:46:45 PM PDT by paltz
During last week's debate on the spending bill on Tuesday in the Senate, Barbara Boxer (D-CA) objected to Senator David Vitter's (R-LA) amendment, which would repeal the automatic congressional pay raise for next year. Funny, they didn't seem so rah rah about pay raises for executives recently.
So if I understand this correctly, the RATS put their pay raise into a larger bill and Sen. Vitter wants to remove the pay raise and put it into a separate bill?
No. Vitter wanted to repeal it. Reid wanted it in a separate bill.
Congress critters should pay a price for their mismanagement of the banks and budgets...
They should suffer the consequences for a declining economy..
They should have to deal with the situation in the SAME manner as their BOSSES - the Taxpayers.
- Immediate 30% salary cut for all elected officials and civil servants.
- Immediate 30% reduction in staff for all congress critters.
- Require all congress critters, elected city, county and state employees and their staff to return leased cars and required to use either their own cars or public transit..
- End all congress critter perks, NOW.
- 30% reduction in all budget sections that grant taxpayer money to illegal immigrants.
- End all welfare payments to the families of habitual criminals and illegal immigrants - since they are in fact criminals by being here uninvited.
The message MUST go out that our elected “officials” are not Royalty or a temporary Monarchy...
The LEADERS must endure that which their ineptness contributes to, and they should have no “special rights or plums” not available to the average taxpayer...
If that isn’t good enough - they can quit...
Twenty years of automatic pay raises, in bold violation of the spirit of the Constitution. All the more reason to despise our government.
Just how many Senrats are Independently wealthy?
If they are not before they are elected then they soon become wealthy after they are.
I bet anything that the California Licensing and "Special" plates were supplied free of charge as a quirk benefit also.
Obviously at the very least a Tax loophole is being used to write off the vehicle as a Senatorial expense.
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