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Magleetis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-09-08 05:32 PM Original message |
Members of Congress get $4,000 pay raise |
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Hydra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-09-08 05:34 PM Response to Original message |
1. I need that 4k!!!! |
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LakeSamish706 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-09-08 05:34 PM Response to Original message |
2. "Unbelievable." No Shit, that is truly Unbelievable... They should have... |
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Bjorn Against (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-09-08 09:07 PM Response to Reply #2 |
26. More like it should be unbelievable... |
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MadHound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-09-08 05:34 PM Response to Original message |
3. And what have they done to deserve this? |
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RavensChick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-09-08 05:51 PM Response to Reply #3 |
8. As a Federal employee |
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ixion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-09-08 05:37 PM Response to Original message |
4. everyone else's (except ceo's) wages are stagnant or declining |
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kimmylavin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-09-08 05:42 PM Response to Original message |
5. "the pay they have lived with" |
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rockybelt (938 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-09-08 05:47 PM Response to Original message |
6. Come on people |
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rubberducky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-09-08 05:49 PM Response to Original message |
7. Sure do wish I could vote myself a raise. $4,000!!!! |
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zeemike (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-09-08 06:00 PM Response to Original message |
9. Oh thank god something was finally done |
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left is right (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-09-08 06:01 PM Response to Original message |
10. I have always maintaned that our congress critters |
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harmonicon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-09-08 07:29 PM Response to Reply #10 |
20. because it costs a lot more to travel to that backwater many times a year? nt. |
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ladywnch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-09-08 06:06 PM Response to Original message |
11. I still say, WE the PEOPLE should be the ones to decide if , when |
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nebula (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-09-08 06:09 PM Response to Original message |
12. This is absurd |
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madrchsod (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-09-08 06:13 PM Response to Original message |
13. good for them..i made about 7,000 last year |
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acmavm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-09-08 06:30 PM Response to Original message |
14. Look at this: |
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zbdent (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-09-08 06:36 PM Response to Original message |
15. compliments of the Repuke tidal wave that said that the automatic pay raises |
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OhioChick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-09-08 06:54 PM Response to Original message |
16. Must Be Nice. n/t |
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gaspee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-09-08 06:59 PM Response to Original message |
17. Unfucking believeable |
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rmgarrette64 (162 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-09-08 08:29 PM Response to Reply #17 |
22. Really? |
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superconnected (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-09-08 08:33 PM Response to Reply #22 |
24. There are lots of jobs that are exempt from minimum wage |
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gaspee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-09-08 10:47 PM Response to Reply #24 |
29. thanks |
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gaspee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-09-08 10:56 PM Response to Reply #22 |
30. nice |
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nancyr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-09-08 07:15 PM Response to Original message |
18. I'm speechless. |
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ohio2007 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-09-08 07:27 PM Response to Original message |
19. House Democratic leaders joined with their Republican counterparts |
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NikolaC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-09-08 07:55 PM Response to Original message |
21. For What? |
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allisonthegreat (586 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-09-08 08:30 PM Response to Original message |
23. Oh please and folks on ssdi got what a 2%...n/t |
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cutlassmama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-09-08 08:46 PM Response to Reply #23 |
25. That's what I was going to post. Not only that, but our Medicare |
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ChromeFoundry (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-09-08 09:11 PM Response to Original message |
27. Where is the pay increase |
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fascisthunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-09-08 09:55 PM Response to Original message |
28. Yet, Impeachment is Off the Table |
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OneBlueSky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-10-08 05:04 AM Response to Original message |
31. well, it sure as hell ain't a merit increase . . . n/t |
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laylah (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-10-08 05:09 AM Response to Original message |
32. I believe that |
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CRK7376 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-10-08 09:52 AM Response to Original message |
33. Boy I sure could use |
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