On 7/31/2011 8:38 AM, Tom B wrote:

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.

Their salaries are no biggie, throw in all the perks and you get a
little bigger. Throw in the corruption, and now you are talking
confiscatory tax rates, trillion dollar deficits and so on. Thank god
dead Rep. John Murtha is a good example: http://tinyurl.com/c8xs76.
That crook should have been tarred and feathered years ago. There are a
gaggle of them in Washington, and they all need thrown out of office,
about all socialist democrats, and about all the old school republicans.

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