Tuesday, February 15, 2011

The Speaker of the House said that everything is on the table.

Since Congress (and the Senate) have enjoyed a 23.15% increase in salary since 2000, lets put Congressio­nal Salaries on the table as well.

How about a rollback in Congressio­nal Salaries (now $174,000) back to 2000 levels ($141,300) for a savings of $32,700 per official or $17,494,50­0.

Then impose a ten year freeze on those salaries to knock $174,945,0­00 off the budget.

I know it's pocket change overall (to you guys) but lets get real, how many folks in the workforce have seen a 23% increase in their salary in the past ten years?

And what are you producing that merits such an increase?

In addition let's get those Congressio­nal Pensions that are funded at Taxpayer expense after you guys put in 20 years as a Congresspe­rson or Senator on the table for cuts.

There are currently over 400 former members of Congress and the Senate who are getting over $60,000/ per year......­...but you want to cut the check of the Senior Citizen getting $600 per month?

Let's cut all taxpayer funding of Congressio­nal pensions first.
This are just some of my humble ideas but think that public servants should look to their own salery and benifits first before stiffing the aged.

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