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Why not just pay every legislator a $10,000 payout every time they reduce federal(budget) spending by ten million dollars?
Something tells me they would get richer faster by doing it that way and we'd have a win-win. No more lobbyists by large, and the incentive to get rich would yield immediate results.
Kinda dumb and simplistic, but it's kind of what they do now only inverted. They take bribes to increase spending. For every dollar a re-election campaign takes in, ten are gained by the large contributor.
A few things...
The fedgov is spending more then $3.5 trillion/yr. Reducing that spending by $100 billion is less then 3%. Get over it. If the cuts are. To sensitive/vital areas or services... That would be the politicians efforts to villify those attempting to make the cuts
Additionally, why would ANY govt employees not doing work during the shutdown be entitled to back pay when they return? This isn’t a paid vacation.
Of course, no one has ever accused Moran of being a bully:
“Congressman chokes 8 year old black boy”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A59757-2000Apr21?language=printer
Some things should remain in the public memory.