And make the election calls easy for the MSM, readers -- VOTE OUT EVERY SINGLE INCUMBENT!!!!!
They won't be able to steal that!!
Or better yet, DON'T VOTE AT ALL!!!!!!
Let's see them claim a mandate from the people when NO ONE VOTES!!!!
"Congress members get $4,000 pay raise"
"....While homeless vets sleep in our streets." -- Mike Rivero of What Really Happened
"Fortunately for members of Congress, their pay isn't tied to their approval ratings. Lawmakers in 2008 will receive salaries of $169,300, a boost of $4,100 over the pay they have lived with since January 2006....
Rep. Jim Matheson, D-Utah, ... said that, in a time of budget deficits when many people are undergoing economic hardships, "at least we ought to have an up-and-down vote on it. The whole process appears so secretive."
Reluctance to openly discuss the salary issue comes at a time when Congress has been suffering low public approval ratings....
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., will get a pay boost from $212,100 last year to $217,400, the same as Chief Justice Roberts. The majority and minority leaders of the House and Senate and Senate president pro tempore Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., will get increases from $183,500 to $188,100.
Dick Cheney, in his last year as vice president, will receive $221,100, up from $215,700. President Bush's salary of $400,000 is unchanged."
We need to CLEAN HOUSE in Washington, folks, and I mean RIGHT NOW!!!!
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