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Should raises for Congress be tied to raises for Government employees

If congress freezes federal employee wages, should theirs be frozen too


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As you may know, government employee's recently have their annual Cost of Living raise stopped by Congress. Additionally any increases to the various steps was suspeneded as well. There is now talk of disallowing any in-step increases or promotions for a certain amount of time.

Yet, despite Congress voting in favor of some or all of these measures, they have deemed it appropriate to give themselves raises.

So this would be my question...if Congress votes to freeze pay of federal workers in some fashion should it make congress themselves inelligable for raises of any kind for that fiscal year as well?
 
As you may know, government employee's recently have their annual Cost of Living raise stopped by Congress. Additionally any increases to the various steps was suspeneded as well. There is now talk of disallowing any in-step increases or promotions for a certain amount of time.

Yet, despite Congress voting in favor of some or all of these measures, they have deemed it appropriate to give themselves raises.

So this would be my question...if Congress votes to freeze pay of federal workers in some fashion should it make congress themselves inelligable for raises of any kind for that fiscal year as well?

Yes it does. Congress should actually vote to decrease there pay.
 
The people should right now decide how much congressmen/women are paid. Then that pay should be linked to the government controlled inflation index (CPI) and it should never be 'voted' on again. Inflation has been, according to the government, non-existent over the past two years... so why do they need a raise? It shouldn't be up to them.
 
I agree 100%. At minimum they should all have a pay freeze.
 
Also, do you have a link to info showing they did this? Would like to share with some people, but couldn't find anything.
 
congressional pay should be indexed to minimum wage.....
 
congressional pay should be indexed to minimum wage.....

Even better, it should be indexed to average wage and ginii calculations (and federal employees excluded, it should be all private sector). As the population prospers, then congress does.
 
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There should be an independent board to approve or disapprove a pay raise dependent on their overall performance. Then they'd never get a pay raise!

One that thing floored me is the number of congress critters that don't show up for a vote or show up AFTER the allotted time to vote is up, but still get to place their vote. I saw this in the last major important vote. These self grandized cretins don't even have to show up to work on time!
 
So this would be my question...if Congress votes to freeze pay of federal workers in some fashion should it make congress themselves inelligable for raises of any kind for that fiscal year as well?

Of course. Politicians are government employees themselves.
 
As you may know, government employee's recently have their annual Cost of Living raise stopped by Congress. Additionally any increases to the various steps was suspeneded as well. There is now talk of disallowing any in-step increases or promotions for a certain amount of time.

Yet, despite Congress voting in favor of some or all of these measures, they have deemed it appropriate to give themselves raises.

So this would be my question...if Congress votes to freeze pay of federal workers in some fashion should it make congress themselves inelligable for raises of any kind for that fiscal year as well?

Absolutely. Lead by example.
 
Even better, it should be indexed to average wage and ginii calculations (and federal employees excluded, it should be all private sector). As the population prospers, then congress does.

Maybe even throw in a clause saying no raises for congress if there is a current budget deficit of a certain percentage of the economy or something.
 
o sh*t lol I put know but didn't understand the question till after haha, but Yes I think all of Congress should take a pay cut along with everyone else
 
No, because then they'd keep raising the minimum wage which should be done away with anyway. :)

Yeah. Those dicks earning 7 dollars an hour have been riding the system for way too long. We need to be more like China and quit giving a **** about silly things like worker safety or giving workers a fair wage or any else of that new age muck.
 
Yeah. Those dicks earning 7 dollars an hour have been riding the system for way too long. We need to be more like China and quit giving a **** about silly things like worker safety or giving workers a fair wage or any else of that new age muck.

"Most of the working poor earn more than the minimum wage, and most of the 0.6 percent (479,000 in 2005) of U.S. wage workers earning the minimum wage are not poor. Only one in five workers earning the federal minimum lives in families with household earnings below the poverty line. Sixty percent work part-time and their average household income is well over $40,000. (The average and median household incomes are $63,344 and $46,326 respectively.)

Forty percent of U.S. workers are salaried. Of the 75.6 million paid by the hour, 1.9 million earn the federal minimum or less, and of those, more than half are under 25 and more than a quarter are between 16 and 19. Many are students or other part-time workers. Sixty percent of those earning the federal minimum or less work in restaurants and bars and are earning tips -- often untaxed, perhaps -- in addition to their wages. Two-thirds of those earning the federal minimum today will, a year from now, have been promoted and be earning 10 percent more. Raising the minimum wage predictably makes work more attractive relative to school for some teenagers, and raises the dropout rate. Two scholars report that in states that allow people to leave school before 18, a 10 percent increase in the state minimum wage caused teenage school enrollment to drop 2 percent."

Raising federal minimum wage bad idea
 
Where was your "What??? We're paying these clowns??" option.
 
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