"Steve Turner" wrote in message ...

On 7/29/2011 10:22 AM, Mike Marlow wrote:
Tom B wrote:
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What cracks me up is when people compare the average salary of our
congressmen
to that of the average insert downtrodden member of society here and,
noting
the "huge" disparity, conclude that "I think we know where the problem
lies!"
As if adjusting the salaries of a few hundred congressmen is somehow going
to
reclaim enough taxpayer money to fix our economy... The amount of taxpayer
money recovered by making their salaries "fair" would be a drop in the ocean
compared to where they're spending the rest of it.

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Add to that the retirement pay (2 years all that's necessary to get full
lifetime retirement) and the other perks.
But that is just then tip of the Government iceberg... how about all the
many Government employees that are exempt from Social Security, and have
their own heath plans the tax payers give them.