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Don’t like Perry’s making the congress part-time.

Why? Texas does quite well by having the State Legislature meet only 140 days every TWO years, unless called into a Special Session by the Governor. As Perry said, they are only paid about $600 a month. Most don’t depend on the “taxpayers” to provide their income. They go back to their districts and run their businesses or work for someone else; they also are able to better assess the intents of their district constituents for various issues that will arise in the upcoming session.

The Fed Legislators use tax payer dollars to fly home, sometimes every weekend, take lobbyist paid junkets to foreign countries for “fact finding”, send out tons of junk mail, live like queens and kings in their lifestyles, etc. ....In spite of all of those benefits, the Fed legislators do little over the course of a year, other than maybe a half dozen significant bills. ....Why do we pay these clowns to have each other voting on naming a Post Office after someone that is unknown outside of the specific area??? ....Why do we sometimes see scenes on CSPAN where there is one person speaking and one person sitting in the big chair and there is no one else in the entire room (while still getting paid for being on the job)???

That’s a vast difference with the Federal Congress, whose members earn a lifetime pension now for only serving one term and a lot of their time is spent on junkets paid for by taxpayers and lobbyists. With their year long “service”, they actually spend very little time in session and it’s their staff personnel who do all of the research, write their speeches and draft the bills. ...Granted, that’s a generalization, and some of the elected in Congress may write their own lines for the public or bills to be presented.