Members Of Congress Are Paid Enough?
Every now and then to complain about their work, and members of Congress are no exception.
A few legislators have suggested in recent months, despite a salary of $ 174 000 annual health and generous pensions, and benefits for things like travel and e-mail that one of the 435 elites are not always what it is cracked up to be. And when you calculate the number of hours they put in that wages are not stellar either, they say.
The new capital of Florida, said last week in a speech to Steve Southerland, a Republican, gave him a retirement community in Tallahassee in which he complained of some of the songs from her new job:
"He said the $ 174,000 salary is not enough hours in the light deviates from a member of Parliament, and had cut the bonds of family in Panama City. Westerland South also said no pensions fast or free health insurance, as some of its voters often ask her to Congress.
"And besides, did I mention? They shoot at us. There are security police in this room right now and why is it? "Southerland said about 125 people in an auditorium of Westminster Oaks retirement community." If you think this job pays too much with this kind of risk and cut me from my family business, I'll just tell you: This work does not mean so much to me, I had a good life in Panama City .. '
"... He added that" if you take lessons, which are at work and distributed it at my expense, '$ 174.000 salary does not seem that high. "
Southerland, a rookie, he led a group home family funeral in Panama City and earned about $ 90,000, before joining Congress in January.
His feelings are no different from those expressed by Sean Duffy, a Republican from Wisconsin, where he said in March it was a "struggle" to pay his mortgage debt and student loans with his salary of Congress. "At this point, I do not live high on the hog," Duffy, a father of six said. (Compared to his colleagues, Duffy is one of the least wealthy members of Congress.)
At the height of the discussion on a possible government shutdown last spring, Linda Sanchez, Democrat of California, said during the interview with MSNBC that he was living "paycheck to paycheck" of his salary to the Congress. And it was the only one. Renee Ellmers, the leading Republican of North Carolina, was asked to give up his salary for the case of the closure. Ellmers refused, saying: "I want the reward."
Times are really so difficult, that members of Congress are struggling to survive? The numbers indicate the opposite. Recent analysis of earnings through Congress, it was found that members of Congress earn about 3.4 times the salary of the average worker. Using this standard, the members of Congress are among the highest paid legislators in the industrialized world.
This talk will probably not help approval rating of Congress. The federal government is the worst rating industry in the country, viewed positively by only 17 percent of Americans, according to a new Gallup poll.
A few legislators have suggested in recent months, despite a salary of $ 174 000 annual health and generous pensions, and benefits for things like travel and e-mail that one of the 435 elites are not always what it is cracked up to be. And when you calculate the number of hours they put in that wages are not stellar either, they say.
The new capital of Florida, said last week in a speech to Steve Southerland, a Republican, gave him a retirement community in Tallahassee in which he complained of some of the songs from her new job:
"And besides, did I mention? They shoot at us. There are security police in this room right now and why is it? "Southerland said about 125 people in an auditorium of Westminster Oaks retirement community." If you think this job pays too much with this kind of risk and cut me from my family business, I'll just tell you: This work does not mean so much to me, I had a good life in Panama City .. '
"... He added that" if you take lessons, which are at work and distributed it at my expense, '$ 174.000 salary does not seem that high. "
Southerland, a rookie, he led a group home family funeral in Panama City and earned about $ 90,000, before joining Congress in January.
At the height of the discussion on a possible government shutdown last spring, Linda Sanchez, Democrat of California, said during the interview with MSNBC that he was living "paycheck to paycheck" of his salary to the Congress. And it was the only one. Renee Ellmers, the leading Republican of North Carolina, was asked to give up his salary for the case of the closure. Ellmers refused, saying: "I want the reward."
Times are really so difficult, that members of Congress are struggling to survive? The numbers indicate the opposite. Recent analysis of earnings through Congress, it was found that members of Congress earn about 3.4 times the salary of the average worker. Using this standard, the members of Congress are among the highest paid legislators in the industrialized world.
This talk will probably not help approval rating of Congress. The federal government is the worst rating industry in the country, viewed positively by only 17 percent of Americans, according to a new Gallup poll.
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