Who is with me about having everybody in Congress and the POTUS take a 20% pay cut ....

[Botany]

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..... and a 20% cut in health care benefits as long as we are going to have
"the sequester?"

We can all meet up @ Skinner's house tomorrow night to talk things over.

Thanx to DUer Freshwest's idea call you senators and congressperson and ask them
what kind of pay cut are they going to take?

[Warren Stupidity]

1. count me out on austerity bullshit in all of its manifestations.

[Vincardog]

2. And link each of their future pay raise to a corresponding increase to SS and the Min. Wage.

[MiniMe]

25. +1

[still_one]

3. I say don't pay them at all

[bluethruandthru]

15. I agree. Most of them are part of the 1% so they don't really need their pay. n/t

[onehandle]

4. Seize their personal assets to cover the needy being affected by this. nt

[2Design]

5. they wrote themselves and admendment back in the 90's to protect their pay

they made it so no one could change their pay

[Jbradshaw120]

16. Not quite

The admendment allows for pay changes, but it can. It be affective until the next congress. That is a good thing it stops pay from being used as a bludgeon to make poorer members do as they are told or get no pay. My senator Jon Tester has a decent net worth, but it really is in his farm. He does not have a big bank account

[nineteen50]

19. You would force them

to become even more controlled by corporate money.

[awoke_in_2003]

30. "more controlled" isn't possible. nt

[pipoman]

6. And submit to frequent drug testing..

[freshwest]

7. Most effective thing to do as those I know being furloughed are doing - call your Senator and your

Governor and raise hell.

With all due respect and no offense meant, sincerely, these solutions are not going to affect anything. We're just venting online.

Vent where it'll do some good. I've seen results from it in the past.

[Botany]

8. good point!

I change mu O.P..

[bigtree]

11. you can bet that's just beginning

. . . and will intensify as folks out here realize how they're being robbed.

[Festivito]

29. Yup, to say we should decrease their TOTAL WEALTH to a minimum wage annuity.

Eh, I'll be nice. 20% above minimum wage for them.

[bigtree]

9. Tammy Duckworth to take 8.4 percent pay cut

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/02/27/tammy-duckworth-to-take-8-4-percent-pay-cut-if-sequester-happens/?print=1

[Drunken Irishman]

10. I don't agree with having Obama take a cut...

Mostly because he's the only one working it seems.

[Botany]

13. I agree that President Obama has been working and that the sequester is not his fault ...

.... but "the optics" would look bad if the President didn't take a hit too.

Cut the Congressional staffers' pay too ..... they would then get on their bosses
about getting something done.

This whole thing just stinks because:
1) The deficit is going down already

http://blog.ourfuture.org/20130226/deficit-is-falling-dramatically-but-only-6-know-that

"Once again, because it might be hard to register due to the drumbeat of deficit-scare propaganda, this is a fact: the deficit is falling at the fastest rate since the end of World War II. It is down about 50 percent as a percent of GDP just since Bush’s huge $1.4 trillion fiscal 2009 deficit. And the deficit is projected to be stable for a decade."

2) The republicans did not care when W ran 2 wars off the books, gave two series of tax cuts to the rich (Dick Cheney
deficits don't matter), and had a huge unfunded medicare part D prescription plan.

3) This is no way to run a government .... one crisis to the next

4) Some republicans are hoping this sequester will crush the economy so they can blame Obama for the
people's pain.

[Lordquinton]

26. This whole thing is designed to extend the depression

if they can again shock the economy and keep people from spending, they will be able to prove them selves correct. Can we call them economic terriosts yet?

[1-Old-Man]

12. This is a very bad idea - it assures that only the very rich can afford to serve in Government

Why pay them anything at all, it should be an honor to serve, right? Well, if you don't pay them enough to go to Washington, keep a place to live there, do the travel necessary for the job, and stay in touch with their constituents then all you will have is people who do not need the paycheck to do the job - the very wealthy. Now I know as well as anyone that its already true that most of our congress-critters are rich we certainly don't need to shoot ourselves in the foot by making it entirely an institution of the rich.

[freshwest]

14. You are correct. My post above was not to ask them to take a pay cut. The ones who will do it out of

Solidarity with the furloughed workers, are NOT the ones who created this mess.

Those who did this are independently wealthy and laugh at such sacrifices. Thanks for expressing that so well.

[BuelahWitch]

17. I agree, they need some "skin in the game"

Obama should have written that into the sequester, then it never would have happened. No election for more than 18 months. They get to slide by unscathed.

[Fresh_Start]

18. I don't think we can cut their pay....but I think their budgets can be cut

did you realize that congress has over 24,000 staffers? I say 50% cut in staffers and in two more weeks in no resolution, another 50% cut in staffers and again two more weeks after that.

[valerief]

20. Kill their lifelong pensions the way their 1% owners have killed ours. nt

[littlewolf]

35. +1000 and require them to use SS.

I bet they fix it quick then.

[Maineman]

21. Pay cut for the President? Nonsense. No way.

[donnasgirl]

22. what about our dignity

http://politicaloutcast.com/2013/02/pelosi-pay-cut-would-diminish-the-dignity-of-her-job/
They are all full of shit.

[Skittles]

23. THAT should have been step one of "SEQUESTRATION"

the rest of it is pure bullshit

[Milliesmom]

24. Duckworth Cuts Own Pay Over Sequestration

Tammy Duckworth Praises John Boehner On VAWA, Cuts Own Pay Over Sequestration


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/01/tammy-duckworth-vawa_n_2792848.html?utm_hp_ref=politics

[RILib]

27. Congress is full of millionaires

They could care less about their Congressional salaries.

[99Forever]

28. 20%?? How about 100%?

Tho there isn't any chance of it happening. They just plain don't give a fuck what we think. Shut the fuck up and starve.

[deaniac21]

31. Just do away with the outrageous pensions they get.

[L0oniX]

32. They are the real leaches sucking on the tax payer entitlement teet. n/t

[Loge23]

33. They don't listen to us anyway.

The kleptocracy that runs this country doesn't give a tinkers cuss what we think.
We lost this country some time ago and now all we can do is hope for the best.

[RudynJack]

34. On the congressional side...

wouldn't that violate the 27th Amendment?

[MoonRiver]

36. I think I signed a petition about this a few days ago.

If I find it I will post.

[Hugin]

37. May I suggest an alternative? Those in Congress with a conscience could donate 8.4% to a Charity.

Like the Delegate from D.C. is planning to do...

"Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C.: The non-voting representative from Washington, D.C., said she will donate a day’s pay for each day federal employees are furloughed -- matching the highest number of furlough days by any agency -- to the Federal Employee Education and Assistance Fund."

Granted, having a choice where the money goes is more than the Federal Workers get, but, the Voters would be watching for any hanky-panky like donating to a PAC and calling it a charity.