In The Midst Of Bailouts And Rocky Economic Times, Congress Gives Itself A Pay Raise
Normally I don’t get upset about Congressional pay. It’s a relative drop in the bucket compared to overall government spending, so it’s just not something to get worked up about. But with the taxpayers already on the hook for bailouts totaling more than this country has spent on every war its ever fought, and with Obama planning several hundred billion dollars more in “economic development” spending which would represent an astounding 5% of our GDP, does Congress really need to be getting a raise at this point?
A crumbling economy, more than 2 million constituents who have lost their jobs this year, and congressional demands of CEOs to work for free did not convince lawmakers to freeze their own pay.
Instead, they will get a $4,700 pay increase, amounting to an additional $2.5 million that taxpayers will spend on congressional salaries, and watchdog groups are not happy about it.
Meanwhile, in Alaska, I see Sarah Palin turned down her pay raise.
She doesn’t have anything to do with the mess at the federal level, but at least she gets it.
