The people's business can wait...
(Politico) Congress is on the verge of giving itself a bump in its annual budget - even as local governments, families and businesses across the country are tightening their belts in the worst recession in decades.Under a House-Senate conference measure, approved by the House last week and poised for passage in the Senate on Wednesday, spending for the legislative branch will increase 5.8 percent this year, boosting Capitol Hill's annual budget to $4.7 billion.
By D.C. standards that nearly qualifies as belt tightening. The fact that is how Democrats are trying to spin it should let you know how far removed from reality they are.
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Dump them all and start ove... (Below threshold)1. Posted by ElectricPhase | September 30, 2009 9:23 AM | Score: 4 (8 votes cast)
Dump them all and start over. We might lose one or two good ones, but frankly that's a price I'm willing to pay.
1. Posted by ElectricPhase | September 30, 2009 9:23 AM |
Score: 4 (8 votes cast)
Posted on September 30, 2009 09:23
2. Posted by Stan25 | September 30, 2009 9:33 AM | Score: 3 (7 votes cast)
The Government is too damn broke to give Social Security recipients a COLA raise, but Congress can give itself an pay raise. What am I missing here? Seems to me like Congress should be voting themselves a pay decrease for its ineptitude , but we all know that will never happen. Not as long as the current crop of asses are in there. Those bastards need a pay raise like i need an extra hole in my head.
2. Posted by Stan25 | September 30, 2009 9:33 AM |
Score: 3 (7 votes cast)
Posted on September 30, 2009 09:33
3. Posted by James H | September 30, 2009 9:39 AM | Score: -2 (2 votes cast)
Is that congressional pay raises or office budgets?
3. Posted by James H | September 30, 2009 9:39 AM |
Score: -2 (2 votes cast)
Posted on September 30, 2009 09:39
4. Posted by Ryan | September 30, 2009 10:04 AM | Score: 4 (8 votes cast)
Pay cut? How about "No pay whatsoever until the budget is balanced"
4. Posted by Ryan | September 30, 2009 10:04 AM |
Score: 4 (8 votes cast)
Posted on September 30, 2009 10:04
5. Posted by tomg51 | September 30, 2009 10:20 AM | Score: 3 (7 votes cast)
Its a stimulus package.
And if it doesn't work, we'll need to increase it.
And if it does, we'd best do more of the same.
5. Posted by tomg51 | September 30, 2009 10:20 AM |
Score: 3 (7 votes cast)
Posted on September 30, 2009 10:20
6. Posted by GarandFan | September 30, 2009 10:21 AM | Score: 5 (7 votes cast)
Got the same locally. "Drought" conditions, so we use LESS water. We use LESS water, they jack up the rates because "revenue is down".
The latest is, rates have to go up again to get people to conserve even more. And, by the way, we want to increase our workers retirement pay by 25%.
Hello? Hello? Is anyone there? Hello?
6. Posted by GarandFan | September 30, 2009 10:21 AM |
Score: 5 (7 votes cast)
Posted on September 30, 2009 10:21
7. Posted by 914 | September 30, 2009 11:10 AM | Score: 3 (7 votes cast)
This is sick.
7. Posted by 914 | September 30, 2009 11:10 AM |
Score: 3 (7 votes cast)
Posted on September 30, 2009 11:10
8. Posted by Flu-Bird | September 30, 2009 11:18 AM | Score: 3 (5 votes cast)
Miserble bunch of wretches realy think they deserve raises even after what their doing to this nation and its citizens they all deserve to be voted clean out of the country
8. Posted by Flu-Bird | September 30, 2009 11:18 AM |
Score: 3 (5 votes cast)
Posted on September 30, 2009 11:18
9. Posted by Hank | September 30, 2009 11:52 AM | Score: 3 (5 votes cast)
I'm surprised they didn't spend some time to give Roman Polanski a medal.
9. Posted by Hank | September 30, 2009 11:52 AM |
Score: 3 (5 votes cast)
Posted on September 30, 2009 11:52
10. Posted by Falze | September 30, 2009 1:26 PM | Score: 1 (3 votes cast)
Gotta love it - Social Security recipients get no COLA, but Congress' employees get one.
Indeed, I cannot begin to imagine why anyone could conceive of the notion that the government might ration health care to the elderly to pay for more stuff for younger people. Where on earth did such an idea ever come from?
10. Posted by Falze | September 30, 2009 1:26 PM |
Score: 1 (3 votes cast)
Posted on September 30, 2009 13:26
11. Posted by GarandFan | September 30, 2009 1:42 PM | Score: 1 (3 votes cast)
And come 2010, a bunch of these assholes will be out in the street, crying "What did we do wrong?"
11. Posted by GarandFan | September 30, 2009 1:42 PM |
Score: 1 (3 votes cast)
Posted on September 30, 2009 13:42
12. Posted by George
| September 30, 2009 1:45 PM | Score: -1 (3 votes cast)
What is all this COLA whining?
If Social Security recipients got a true COLA for 2010, it might actually be a cut in benefits if we experience deflation as many economists suspect.
No inflation; no cost of living increase.
Social Security COLA has nothing to do with Congress giving itself a raise.
12. Posted by George
| September 30, 2009 1:45 PM |
Score: -1 (3 votes cast)
Posted on September 30, 2009 13:45
13. Posted by Falze | September 30, 2009 3:51 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Ummm...did you read the story, george? The Social Security non-COLA is completely relevant because they're giving their staff a COLA (the post title is misleading, they're giving themselves more money to spend, not raises, with this bill).
13. Posted by Falze | September 30, 2009 3:51 PM |
Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Posted on September 30, 2009 15:51
14. Posted by Jamie | September 30, 2009 3:55 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
George,
I don't think anyone is claiming they're directly linked. The idea is that if SS Recipients don't need a COLA increase, neither does Congress.
14. Posted by Jamie | September 30, 2009 3:55 PM |
Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Posted on September 30, 2009 15:55
15. Posted by Larry J. Cate Sr. | October 1, 2009 9:01 AM | Score: 0 (2 votes cast)
I am a 100% DISABLED AMERICAN VETERAN they give us pennys when they deceide to. I think that they need to give us the same raises that they give themselves and that they should receive their medical care at a Veterans Hospital just like they make us do.
15. Posted by Larry J. Cate Sr. | October 1, 2009 9:01 AM |
Score: 0 (2 votes cast)
Posted on October 1, 2009 09:01
16. Posted by Marvin A Farmer Jr | October 16, 2009 8:02 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Dose anyone know the AMOUNT of their 2009 pay raise. Thanks
16. Posted by Marvin A Farmer Jr | October 16, 2009 8:02 PM |
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Posted on October 16, 2009 20:02