the House gave themselves a raise in pay yesterday

[donsu]

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/06/13/congress.payraise.ap/index.html?section=cnn_latest

Despite record low approval ratings, House lawmakers Tuesday embraced a $3,300 pay raise that will increase their salaries to $168,500.


laughing insanely

[bdamomma]

1. oh yea,

they work really hard for us don't they???:sarcasm:

[Virginia Dare]

2. If they tied their salaries to job performance...

like they believe that the federal employee salaries should be, it would have been about a 99% pay cut.

FUCKING HYPOCRITES!!!!!

:nuke:

[GreenArrow]

3. maybe they should let voters decide

whether they deserve a pay raise or not; put it up as a referendum when there is a federal election.

Shameless.

[rock]

5. If they did, they'd get cut n/t

[pooja]

4. $3300.00 extra--guess they need it since their paying for their own meals

now

[Broken_Hero]

6. and

the minimum wage effort, is suppose to be voted down...minimum wage to go up to 7$ and change, and its expected to fail...a side order of hyprocrisy, with your hamburger?...

[MercutioATC]

7. Technically, no. The increase is automatic. They just didn't stop it.

It's a COLA increase that ALL government employees (except air traffic controllers) get and it's autoomatic.