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1. The job they have done would get any one of us fired if we gave a similar performance on our job.
2. They have not earned their pay, clearly.
3. We elect them with the hope that they will legislate as populist and/or progressives only to see the polar opposite once they are sworn in. They enter the upper class with their new salary and cast away any remaining populist/ progressive views they may have once espoused.
4. Some pols may actually be from the middle class prior to election. They step off the plane in DC and are handed a fat paycheck, immediatly moving them into the upper class.
The greed mechanism in their brain takes over and they swiftly forget where they fucking came from.
5. Newly elected ideologues are dealt with swiftly. The corporate lobby, AIPAC/CFR are waiting to greet them and begin the coersion. Corrupting them by reminding them that they are now amongst the upper class.
The result of that coersion..
2 WARS 700+ Military bases worldwide. Growing wealth divide top 10% own about 90% of this nations wealth. Dieing middle class Poverty growth at record levels Healthcare for profit Insurance Usury Privatization Free Trade Rape of the global environment An Anti Union Government
Pols are still willing to drive America off a cliff to protect the rich from the rest of us. The peon class.
They're still telling the world, capitalize or you'll get hurt.
Many Dems voted for the Bush tax cuts in '01. Their $174K salaries are still benefitting from those tax cuts. Meanwhile the average American worker still sees no benefit. The tax burden has been shifted to the little people and further saps their meager budgets.
The Employee Free Choice Act should have been signed into law by Feb 1st. I'm tired of hearing excuses as to why it hasn't been signed into law. Government fears the power that Unions will bring to the people. They fear the people having any voice whatsoever.
Unions could and would lead America forward to a fair nation.
The wealthy fear populism. Populism gives power to the people. Apparantly, a nightmare to almost everyone earning 174K+ per year in DC.
The reasons to pay Pols a median salary are aplenty. Millions and millions of Americans work much harder for much less than median pay. Their workload doesn't warrant 174K per year. Their performance certainly doesn't.
Almost all Americans have taken pay cuts in recent years. Either by falling wages or the crashing economy, "free" trade, De-Unionization, corporate downsizing.
Time for congress and the Prez to share the pain by taking pay cuts. They've earned it!
Time for our elected government to better emulate the populace by being paid a median salary.
Maybe then they won't forget us.
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