“...giving them an average salary of around $42,000 a year.”
42k may seem like a lot too some, but not for one that must live in the DC area. But, like all jobs in all markets, their job has its ups and downs.
Meanwhile, in the same city:
Obama Caps Military Pay for Second Year
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3205049/posts
Heaven forbid that Senators ride in an elevator with lowly scum like a taxpayer.
Senators make big bucks pressing the buttons of those who elevate them.
I suspect elevator buttons are normally a very germ rich surface.
Whoa....pushing a button is beneath their position....
They are our overlords....I’m sure Lords of past times would have button pushers in their kingdom...if they had elevators....!
Should we expect anything less....?
How much for pensions and benefits?
Harry Reid might not be able to find his floor were it not for the elevator ops. The Senate is his nursing home.
Seriously - could Thad Cochran or Hary Reid figure out an elevator by themselves?
This article makes me curious. Do the “high and mighty” Senators have commode flushers too?
Inquiring minds want to know.
Obama has a phone and a pen - senators are about as useful now as elevator operators.
We should be grateful for these elevator operators. Without them, each senator would likely have their own button pusher on staff. Instead of a small cadre of highly trained and specialized elevator operators to serve the entire Senate, we would have an army of 100 elevator operators. Of course, those guys could do double duty, carrying cups of coffee, opening doors and flushing toilets . . .
Oh wait, we probably already have well more than 100 folks doing those kinds of chores. Truth is, few senators go anywhere without staff present. Let the staff guys press the elevator buttons.
To be fair, I’ve been to the U.S. Capitol and the congressional office buildings many times. The Capitol, in particular, is a sea of people. A lot of them are tourists who don’t really understand how to behave in an office building. I don’t begrudge the senators and congressmen having reserved elevators — they do have places to go and a schedule to keep, after all — but they could accomplish the same thing by installing a key card reader on certain elevators. Hotels don’t have any trouble keeping the riff-raff off of certain elevators. Surely the Capitol staff could figure this out.
Plundering, partying, parasitic politicians living large with friends on the largesse of productive Americans while we, our children, our grandchildren slave away to pay the debt (taxation) they’ve created.
Socialism Is Legal Plunder - Bastiat
BIG GOVERNMENT IS CRONY SOCIALISM
DEFUND/DISMANTLE/DEPOPULATE socialists and their collectives from the body politic.
Isn’t communism wonderful?
Pray America wakes
Had to have a good book to read.
With the semi-automatic knob, often the best idea was to put the cab between floors and try to sleep, hunched up in the corner and half balanced on the little seat.
Those days are gone, with all but a few "Members Only" cars operating between the office buildings and the respective Floors, often only when Congress is in Session.
That's not to say there isn't plenty of patronage positions and port in the U.S. Congress billion dollar annual budget. There are whole cities out of view up there, with the third largest police force in the world.
Give them a couple of years, they’ll be introducing sedan-chair operators to transport our overlords from the elevator to their seats on the floor.