Congress getting richer, again Options

[knucklehead]

NEW YORK (CNN) -- Without much fanfare, the House of Representatives last week voted to give members of Congress yet another pay raise, as it has done almost every year for nearly a decade.

For some reason, our elected officials decided against holding a news conference. Maybe that's because they didn't want to draw attention to the fact that they raise their own salaries almost every year while refusing to raise the pay of our lowest-paid workers.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/06/20/dobbs.june21/index.html


I guess $170,000 a year just isn't enough for the necessities of life... you know... upscale houses, expensive suits, yuppie luncheons, large freezers with which to hold large sums of money, etc.

[pebkac]

Another thing to keep in mind is that Congressmen are required to have two houses: One in DC and one in their home district. And 170k really doesn't go all that far in DC for a house.