Just when I thought I’ve heard everything from our stellar members of Congress, along comes one of those folks to prove me wrong. And in a big way. Because at a time when my daughter spends far more time in school, roughly 180 days, than do members of Congress actually spend at work, some seem to think themselves underpaid. Now keep in mind that these supposed servants of the people now bring in $174,000 a year, plus some pretty impressive benefits. But according Rep. Jim Moran, a Democrat who’s finally retiring after 23 years, that's simply not enough. He’s kidding, right? Apparently not, he’s dead serious!
So it was then, that in a recent interview this boob said that members need bigger paychecks because, he said, they have to maintain two residences, one in their home district, and one in Washington. He said, "I think the American people should know that the members of Congress are underpaid." He went on to say, "I understand that it's widely felt that they underperform, but the fact is that this is the board of directors for the largest economic entity in the world." Right, and if these people were to perform the same way in the private sector as they have in the public sector, every damn one of them would have been fired a long time ago!
Moran made note of the fact that some members live out of their offices to save money while others have little apartment units. He said, "Our pay has been frozen for three years and we're planning on freezing it a fourth year." Congressional salaries have not seen a bump since 2009, and yet we continue to have quite a number of folks who have managed quite well, having no trouble at all in being able to increase their net worth substantially since first being elected. Moran says he'll bring up the issue in an amendment to a bill to garner attention to the issue, but he assumes it will not pass. I dare them to try sneaking that one past us!
It was the host of "Face The Nation", senile old Bob Schieffer who was apparently in complete agreement with Moran, although he did have a slightly different take on things. While saying he thinks that congressional pay needs a "complete overhaul," he also said, "I propose that they be paid by the hour, just like most government workers." He added, "But they would only be paid while they're legislating." And then we had that doofus, David Gregory, the host of "Meet the Press, who said, "When Congress does so little, as it's done in this Congress ... you're not going to get a lot of sympathy." They don’t deserve what they’re getting now.
As far as I’m concerned these folks are considerably overpaid for the amount of actual work that they perform. Actually how things ought to operate is for these people to have some sort of a fulltime job that’s outside of government with their position in Congress either being performed for free or for some very nominal salary. Being in Congress should not be their only source of income nor their only employment. Or how about this, perhaps if these clones were once again to actually start working for the people and not solely for themselves and if, say, they were to agree to term limits, then we might be in favor of at least ‘considering’ a raise.
But you know, it’s not just members of Congress who are grossly overpaid for the amount of work they don’t do. Something else that REALLY pisses me off is the fact that our waste-of–skin president is making $400 grand, plus plenty of lavish perks, every single year. And it seems like all we’re paying this dumbass to do is to: go on family vacations, ruin our economy, seize control of our healthcare, jet around to fundraisers, gut our military, balloon the size of our government, bankrupt our country, and make America the laughing stock of the entire world. So we’re paying this guy nearly half a million bucks a year to destroy our country?
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