"Struggling to make ends meet" on $174K a year?? Really Nancy???

[Tom Rinaldo]

27. I'll express a slim modicrum of sympathy

We live in an era where utility infielders on last place major league baseball teams make that kind of money. Me on the other hand, I get by on a tenth of that. So what is fair? Hard to say in a society with the values that our one has. I get that as often as not the people who make it into the U.S. Senate could command incomes twice as high in the privte sector. On the other hand, a good number of them use their politial office holder fame and conncections to catapult themselves into the top 1% of income makers in America.

All things considered, I don't begrudge our national elected officials the well above average salaries that they earn. With their offices come out of pocket wadrobe expenses I would never put up with having to pay, for just one trivial example.

But we are in an era when politicians like to talk about the need for "shared sacrifices". And if that is the lense that they choose to legislate through, then I am sorry. The sacrifices they are being asked to make fall somewhere near the far back of the line.