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Blue Idaho

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8. Merit Pay
Sun Aug 10, 2014, 01:14 PM
Aug 2014

These TeaPublicans hate the idea of collective bargaining and "socialism" when it comes to everyone else - so why not give them a dose of their own medicine? If merit pay is such a good idea for the rest of America I say it's good enough for them too. It's time "we the people" have a say over how much these idiots get paid. Instead of the current socialized pay system - let the citizens in each state decide how much their representatives are worth. If congress critters are listening to the folks back home and proposing and passing legislation that makes our lives better - then they probably deserve a raise. If not - they deserve a pay cut.

Tell them they can have more money when the middle class is growing and our troops are out of harms way around the world.

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But they work SO hard and really need that money to spend WhiteTara Aug 2014 #1
And hookers and coke keep going up faster than inflation! rock Aug 2014 #6
Oh, I thought that was what lobbyists were for! WhiteTara Aug 2014 #7
Sigh . . . madamesilverspurs Aug 2014 #2
hush now DustyJoe Aug 2014 #4
What will be the % COLA this year? panader0 Aug 2014 #5
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr dickthegrouch Aug 2014 #3
Merit Pay Blue Idaho Aug 2014 #8
Congressmen and women really should make minimum wage. Octafish Aug 2014 #9
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