Pay Cut For Congress: Yea Or Nay?

[paulitician]

On Thursday, Mega-Millionaire House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said she was against cutting Congressional pay because it would undermine the dignity of her job. But what do you all think?

 

[Big Black Dog]

I think their pay should be cut in half and all perks eliminated. Also every bill they pass into law should apply to them just as it does for everybody else.

 

[Redfish]

I think their pay should be cut in half and all perks eliminated. Also every bill they pass into law should apply to them just as it does for everybody else.

what he said^^^^^

 

[Dot Com]

On Thursday, Billionaire House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said she was against cutting Congressional pay because it would undermine the dignity of her job. But what do you all think?

what is it w/ you people & the inability to provide links? Anyway: Twenty-seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution

 

[hjmick]

I think their pay should be cut in half and all perks eliminated. Also every bill they pass into law should apply to them just as it does for everybody else.

Take it a step further... Cut it to the point that they need to get real jobs. That should eliminate those who seek to get rich off of the taxpayers they are supposed ot serve.

 

[hjmick]

On Thursday, Billionaire House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said she was against cutting Congressional pay because it would undermine the dignity of her job. But what do you all think?

what is it w/ you people & the inability to provide links?

What is it with you people and your inability to search for things on your own?

"I don't think we should do it; I think we should respect the work we do," Pelosi told reporters in the Capitol. "I think it's necessary for us to have the dignity of the job that we have rewarded."

Read more: Pelosi: Congressional pay cut undermines dignity of the job - The Hill

 

[Skull Pilot]

On Thursday, Billionaire House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said she was against cutting Congressional pay because it would undermine the dignity of her job. But what do you all think?

Politicians have no dignity.

 

[boedicca]

Cut their pay until they pass a balanced budget.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

The issue has nothing to do with congressional pay, but the failure of voters to hold elected representatives accountable.

Whatever the perceived failures of Congress, the blame lies with the voters.

 

[hjmick]

The issue has nothing to do with congressional pay, but the failure of voters to hold elected representatives accountable.

Whatever the perceived failures of Congress, the blame lies with the voters.

There is much truth to this statement...

 

[rightwinger]

At $177,000 a year

They are underpaid

 

[bripat9643]

On Thursday, Billionaire House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said she was against cutting Congressional pay because it would undermine the dignity of her job. But what do you all think?

Politicians have no dignity.

Undermining the dignity of Congress would be no more possible than to corrupt the chastity of a whorehouse.

 

[JWBooth]

On Thursday, Billionaire House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said she was against cutting Congressional pay because it would undermine the dignity of her job. But what do you all think?

The notion of Congressional dignity is absurd at best. One would better try to argue the intellectual merits of a truthmatters or thanatos post.

 

[Skull Pilot]

At $177,000 a year

They are underpaid

Now that's funny.

 

[Pogo]

You didn't leave a choice to vote "Aye". I really wanted Aye.

Congress shouldn't be a career goal. They should view the job the same as military service, for the same reason. They should be sequestered in dorms and not paid a salary at all. Free meals, and automatic restraining orders on all lobbyists. Let 'em take the role of serving their constituents. Only those who are truly dedicated to that service would run again.

 

[rightwinger]

At $177,000 a year

They are underpaid

Now that's funny.

The President should make $1 million a year
Senators, Cabinet Officers and Supreme Court Justices should make $250,000
Congressmen should make $200,000

 

[Skull Pilot]

At $177,000 a year

They are underpaid

Now that's funny.

The President should make $1 million a year
Senators, Cabinet Officers and Supreme Court Justices should make $250,000
Congressmen should make $200,000

Then they would be evil rich people and we can't have evil rich people running the country.

 

[GWV5903]

At $177,000 a year

They are underpaid

Underpaid???

They work roughly a 150 days a year, consistently make some of the dumbest mistakes known to man...

So based on your logic (really lack of knowledge), we should pay them more...

And we wonder how we have Oblamer...

RW, your the Idiots Idiot...

Wear it with pride...

 

[rightwinger]

Now that's funny.

The President should make $1 million a year
Senators, Cabinet Officers and Supreme Court Justices should make $250,000
Congressmen should make $200,000

Then they would be evil rich people and we can't have evil rich people running the country.

That is not excessive pay for an executive position

 

[rightwinger]

At $177,000 a year

They are underpaid

Underpaid???

They work roughly a 150 days a year, consistently make some of the dumbest mistakes known to man...

So based on your logic (really lack of knowledge), we should pay them more...

And we wonder how we have Oblamer...

RW, your the Idiots Idiot...

Wear it with pride...

Mid level executives make more than that