A few minutes ago, I thought I was reading Drudge on-line but had to re-check. Because one of the headlines made me think perhaps I’d tuned in to an episode of Rod Serling’s Twilight Zone TV show from the 60’s, based on the unrealities of science fiction.
However, the Drudge item indeed was fact and here’s the headline from The Weekly Standard on-line: “Obama Orders Pay Raise for Biden, Members of Congress, Federal Workers.”
So, here we are in a nation on its way to 17 trillion in debt, stalemated over legislation likely to cripple the economy altogether, with leadership that’s absolutely incapable of running a nation and totally inept at whatever they touch, giving itself pay increases for the worst job of governance that ever existed.
Highlights of the article included: “President Barack Obama issued an executive order to end the pay freeze on federal employees, in effect giving some federal workers a raise. One federal worker now to receive a pay increase is Vice President Joe Biden. According to disclosure forms, Biden made a cool $225,521 last year. After the pay increase, he'll now make $231,900 per year.
Members of Congress, from the House and Senate, also will receive a little bump, as their annual salary will go from $174,000 to 174,900. Leadership in Congress, including the speaker of the House, will likewise get an increase.”
Now, what I’ve got to ask is, except for businesses taken over by government and basically funded by taxpayers via bailouts, what business employees on earth in the real world could fail as miserably as these clowns have and still have a job? And then, where would the money for pay increases come from? When real entities are mismanaged as badly as public sector operations, customers leave, employees get fired, doors close and management ordinarily departs whereas there’s no further use for any of them.
So, once again I’ll ask the same question as yesterday and many, many times in the past. Precisely how much are taxpayers going to accept from the totally useless nits holding public office? Because this kind of pocket-picking is not only despicable, it equates to outright theft for which so-called “leaders” ought be arrested and then be locked up for quite a long time.
That’s it for today folks.
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