RSSUS Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-FL) Wants a Pay Raise and a Congressional Living Wage …
US Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-FL) wants a Congressional living wage …
You wonder why Congress has a 15% approval rating? Not only does Congress not do anything, only seem interested in maintaining their own power and when you count up the days work only about 1/2 a year … now US Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-FL) wants a pay raise. Watch the VIDEO below of Hasting whining about his pay and saying that he thinks that Congress deserves a raise. Really? Congress makes $174,000 a year for working far less days than your average American. He thinks that this is not being paid properly. These people have helped destroy this country and now they want to be rewarded? This previously disgraced and impeached judge should be tossed out of office and make to work in the private sector, one he helped ruin. CONGRESS DOES NOT DESERVE A RAISE, THEY DESERVE TO BE THROWN OUT OF OFFICE.
Rep. Alcee L. Hastings made the politically tone-deaf case for raising salaries for members of Congress Monday, pointing to the high cost of living in the District of Columbia.
“Members deserve to be paid, staff deserves to be paid and the cost of living here is causing serious problems for people who are not wealthy to serve in this institution,” the Florida Democrat said at a Rules Committee meeting, referring to the average member’s $174,000 annual salary. “We aren’t being paid properly,” he later added.
The committee was considering the fiscal 2016 Legislative Branch appropriations bill, which sets the spending levels for Congress and legislative branch agencies. The bill includes a freeze on member pay, continuing one that has been in place since 2010 — and last year drew the ire of then-Rep. James P. Moran.
Pay raise? You know these people are getting monies that are not apart of their actual salary. They can write books, do speeches, etc. Sorry Alcee, HOW ABOUT YOU GET A REAL JOB IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR!!! PAY RAISE MY BUTT!!!
Maybe Hastings should go back to taking bribes?
Posted May 20, 2015 by Scared Monkeys Congress, Ethics, House of Representatives, Job Approval, Polls, WTF, You Tube - VIDEO | 2 comments |
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all politicians are worthless drags on our society. especially democrat thugs.
The founders never intended for legislators to make a career of politics. If Hastings and others do not like the pay, then find another job.
SM is correct, they all get money for travel and other costs from the Tax Payer as well as being paid for speeches.
There is the fact that inflation has reduced the value of money to the point that takes more to keep even with purchase power of previous years. Who’s fault is that? Look in the mirror Rep. Hastings and see the one responsible for loss of purchase power. Gather your fellow Reps. and then you can see the whole gang that did it.