Rewarding Poor Performance

With a frighteningly bad economy, Congress has voted itself a raise. Rather like the CEO of a nearly bankrupt corporation begging for money one day, then granting himself a bonus the next. Yes, unbelievable as it is, with our economy in the tank, a seven trillion dollar rescue package that just didn't work (and, yes, it really is $7 trillion. Even the mainstream media is starting to admit that), a debt spiralling faster than hurricane Katrina, Federal lawmakers have given themselves a raise that will give each of them $4700 more next year, with a price tag of $2.5 million.

I'm not going to talk about their unforgivable audacity, because it has become so commonplace, it would be like complaining about the sun coming up. Really, what can be said that hasn't been said a thousand times before? We know how bad they really are, and how little they obviously care about the people they're supposed to represent, or the state of the country as a whole.

Granted, $4700 a year equals out to just $90.38 a week, but the point is that they don't need it and they certainly don't deserve it. Taking the math a little further, that price tag of $2.5 million dollars divided by the $4700 a week (and this all comes from Fox News, which I trust more than the networks or CNN), comes to 531.9. I won't speculate as to who the '.9' is, :) but really, what they're doing to reward themselves for running the country into the ground is taking the equivalent of $90 a week out of the household budgets of 531 families. So come on, Brian Williams, tell the people about it. Mister President-elect, where is your outrage? Mister Reid, Ms Pelosi, where are the hearings? Why isn't Wolf Blitzer talking about it?

I'd really like to see a public, national referendum approve every raise that our so-called representatives give themselves. If it is so important that the snakes can spend $2.5 million when we're in debt up to our eyeballs, then certainly it's worth the trouble of asking the people who are forced to pay for it.



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