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alp227 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-11 03:43 PM
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CNN: Congress gave staff $6.1M in bonuses
 
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CNN's Lisa DesJardins reports that as Congress argues over budget cuts, some staffers are getting bonus pay.
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timefortherevolution Donating Member (321 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-11 03:46 PM
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1. Washington DC is its own world. They have no clue what the
rest of us experience as the "real world".
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democracy1st Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-11 03:56 PM
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2. man are we getting screwed or what! these guys both dem and repubs have no shame.
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emilyg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-11 04:23 PM
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3. ......
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OneMadVoter Donating Member (17 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-11 09:50 PM
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4. Yet all other federal employees
have had wages froze while some Republican'ts are trying to do away with the little amount in retirement that federal employees can attain.
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mazzarro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-26-11 10:04 PM
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5. The politicians - right, left, and center - have no regard for the average person
They carter to the rich and powerful; they do not care about us lower class non-persons and they lie all the times because they are all in this together and never contradict or callout each other.
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midnight Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-27-11 06:06 AM
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6. So apparently congress and it's staff will not be sharing in the pain that
they are asking the poor to share in... In fact only the poor and middle class will share the pain of policies that are bleeding this country's treasury....
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sulphurdunn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-27-11 08:35 AM
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7. Best tired adage.
"Congressional staffers (or fill in the blank) earn considerably less than their peers in the private sector" i.e we deserve more money than we're paid.

Response: Nobody drafted you asshole. Go get one of those vaunted jobs in the private sector if you're not sufficiently "incentivized".
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