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Originally posted by Klassified
Originally posted by OptimusSubprime
All Federal employees have been on a pay freeze for a few years now, and now they are seriously talking about furloughs. For those who are unaware of what a furlough is, it is a period of time where government employees are in an unpaid status. They do this to save money, although a budget hasn't been passed in 5 years, so how do they even know what they have or what they will save? This is a slap in the face to regular gov't employees, not to mention the pay increase that Obama gave the VP a few weeks ago. Not all gov't employees are high paid bureaucrats... a lot of the in the federal wage grade system make between $10 - $20 an hour. I guess those people don't deserve the "dignity" of their respective jobs.edit on 14-2-2013 by OptimusSubprime because: (no reason given)
We're not talking about working class Americans who happen to work for the government for working class wages. We're talking about the living sponges in the Executive, Judicial, and Legislative branches who suck up all they can from the tax payers pockets, and then whine for more to support their lavish, undeserved, lifestyles.
Originally posted by g146541
Like these criminals care about the pocket change they make from the people of the US.
They make a CRAPTON more than this off of big corp.
I know you're not... I hear you loud and clear. My point was that Pelosi has the proverbial "balls" to say something like this when the situation I described exists.
Finally I recalled the stopgap solution of a great princess who was told that the peasants had no bread, and who responded: "Let them eat brioche."
Originally posted by neo96
Pelosi: Congressional pay cut undermines dignity of the job
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Thursday that she opposes a cut in congressional pay because it would diminish the dignity of lawmakers' jobs.
thehill.com...
What dignity?
Making 6 figures to screw people over that dignity?
"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."
Pelsoi you are a millionaire, and so are most congressman.
I don't respect anything she or her colleagues do in fact I support a pay cut since none of those people on the tax payer dime earns a damn dollar they make.edit on 14-2-2013 by neo96 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Kali74
Something I can agree with you on.
They should be facing a pay freeze until they stop acting like children.
Originally posted by METACOMET
Originally posted by g146541
Like these criminals care about the pocket change they make from the people of the US.
They make a CRAPTON more than this off of big corp.
It's actually the other way around...
Originally posted by tothetenthpower
Originally posted by Kali74
Something I can agree with you on.
They should be facing a pay freeze until they stop acting like children.
They should have their pay cut to 39 thousand a year, the same as the average American worker.
How about Nancy Pelosi get some dignity the real way.
~Tenth
Originally posted by Hugues de Payens
To her constituants.......REALLY?!!!! WTF people?
Originally posted by burdman30ott6
One of the most liberal voting districts in the USA. They are so far to the left, they occasionally accuse Rachel Maddow of being too conservative.