Friday, December 19, 2008

Taxpayers Pockets Aren’t Empty, Yet

After siphoning taxpayers pockets to bailout the financial industry, to the tune of $700 billion or so, and then granting “loans” to the Big 3 automakers in the amount of a mere $13 billion or so, the professional jobholders which make up the congress of these United States, who allegedly are concerned about us taxpayers making ends meet, still can give themselves a raise, from YOUR and my pockets.  Bastards!  Each and every single member of congress should be driven from Washington D.C., unmercifully.

A crumbling economy, more than 2 million constituents who have lost their jobs this year, and congressional demands of CEOs to work for free did not convince lawmakers to freeze their own pay.

Instead, they will get a $4,700 pay increase, amounting to an additional $2.5 million that taxpayers will spend on congressional salaries,...

With economy in shambles, Congress gets a raise

Posted by John Venlet on 12/19 at 07:24 PM
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