Time to demand all members of Congress & the Senate take a 65% reduction in wages.

I'm absolutely spitting nails this morning. The arrogance of those sitting on the Hill!! They have their own little 'perfect union' of being able to set and raise their own salaries and benefits. Name any other worker that gets to do that! If they believe that American workers should CONTINUE to lose wages (ours have been going down for 8 years) and their retirement (taken a look at your 401K?) at the same time healthcare/insurance costs are exploding upward, then what's good for the goose is good for the gander. Let them set the example of how all of us are going to get by with less and less!

insurance just like the poor folk.

If we have to eat dirt, they should too.

The Earth is FLAT ya know!!!!!!

continue to reelect incumbents.

I'm not saying they're poor. I'm just saying, most of them took gargantuan pay cuts from what they could be making in the private sector in order to serve - its probably ok that they are decently compensated.

$59,255 a year. About what the average UAW line worker makes. I see that as justice.

Just because a UAW line worker makes 59,255 a year doesn't mean no one else in America should be allowed to make more (or less).

Almost anyone of our congress persons could quit and immediately triple his or her salary or more in the private sector. Many of them could have done that before they ever became "famous" as a congress person, since many or most congress persons are lawyers or other types of professionals.

manufacturers to manufacturers -- my comparison, and call for him to cut his salary, stands.

Would it make the $15B or $50B auto loans depending on which number you like significantly more likely?

us. A 65% reduction in a Senator's salary would put them on par with an UAW line worker.

Really? The vast majority of Congress doesn't need that salary. It won't do anything to show them the "real world."

one of the Big 3 as labor, than you don't need to make more than the guy working in the Alabama Toyota plant. That 'auto workers' should all be required to work for the same set wage.

According to those Senators, it is evil for UNION workers to make money.

:shrug:

Wages are going up sproadically and slowly, but they are not dropping by 65% across the board, nor do they need to.

what a great idea.It really gets the point across, doesn't it?

was tucked into the auto bailout bill. Add that to the scheduled $5,000 for themselves that congress probably will not reject at the end of December.

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The Senate passed the judicial pay measure as a separate bill in November, but the House never acted. A House Democratic leadership aide said that while House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., supports the pay raise, it was difficult for the House to hold a stand-alone vote in the midst of a recession to increase the pay for people making far more than most workers.

As a result, Reid has taken the unusual step of linking the obscure but important judicial pay issue to the unpopular auto bailout.
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More on both ends of the snip at link http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081210/ap_on_go_co/judicial_pay_raise