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C0ONGRESSIONAL PAY RAISES: DOUBLE STANDARD?


[+] ballot by Cathexis
created Thu Jun 30, 05
The US House of Representatives agreed to a $3,100 pay raise for Congress next year (to $165,200) after defeating an effort to roll it back (June 28, 2005).

"It's not a pay raise," said House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas. "It's an adjustment so that they're not losing their purchasing power."

Interesting ...

While Congress has raised its own salary multiple times over the past several years, the Minimum Wage has not been raised since ... when?

If Congress' pay is not increased, they risk losing purchasing power ... but don't the poorest wage earners lose purchasing power, when the Minimum Wage is not periodically raised?

Is there, perhaps, a double standard at work, here?

Yes: Double standard 13
No: Congress would risk losing purchasing power; Poor wage earners would not. 0

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COMMENTS:
Great ballot, Cathexis.

by mojo on Thu Jun 30, 05 12:36pm [+]

Bother ... typo in the subject line. :-/
by Cathexis on Thu Jun 30, 05 12:37pm [+]

THis is like what MP's did, they wouldn't give teachers a pay raise, even though the teachers claimed that a pay raise would attract more teachers, but gave one to themselves, citing the same line of reasoning.
by aya on Thu Jun 30, 05 12:38pm [+]

...and the beat goes on.
by elvislennon on Thu Jun 30, 05 12:40pm [+]

Is this another indication that we are in the wrong business?
by ABC on Thu Jun 30, 05 1:00pm [+]

But, those people in congress need the money so much more than the people earning the minimum wage!
by FiddleFaddleOnLSD on Thu Jun 30, 05 2:08pm [+]

And those dicks get free, universal health coverage, too.

Funny, how what is bad for America is good for Congress.
by cranky on Thu Jun 30, 05 3:38pm [+]

Lets run for office...

Seems like a good gravy train to be on.
by Steelhamster on Thu Jun 30, 05 4:17pm [+]

"Losing purchasing power." An interesting way to put it. Mister DeLay ought to become an English professor when he's mercifully voted out of Congress. Never before have I seen such a facility for interpretational linguistics.
by Truthseeker013 on Thu Jun 30, 05 6:46pm [+]

As the great Ted Kennedy would say,I don't think stupid middle class realizes what a case of Chivas Regal premium blended old Scotch Whisky cost,low life beer drinkers that they all are
by Quinn_the_Eskimo on Thu Jun 30, 05 6:50pm [+]

Ted Kennedy has been a strong supporter of an increase in the minimum wage. The same can't be said for Republicans in Congress.
by cranky on Fri Jul 01, 05 11:34am [+]

They should get enough money to get by on, no more. This is most definately a double standard. Not that we should raise minimun wage, but they shouldn't get a raise either.
by herzog on Fri Jul 01, 05 5:57pm [+]

maybe they need to cut back on their purchasing! (like the rest of us)
by lightreaper on Sat Jul 02, 05 8:52pm [+]

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