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Part Time Job, Full Time Pay
Sound too good to be true?
Well, this sweetheart deal can be yours too, IF you get elected to the US Congress.
No kidding. Our elected representatives are getting paid $165,000 per year, PLUS health insurance, plus all the little perks of being a Congressperson, and in exchange they are working an average 2 1/2 day week.
And please don't start with "well, they have to go back to their home districts to work there".
Baloney!
What they are going back to their districts to do is to campaign so that they can get re-elected and keep their cushy jobs for another term.
They are also taking large chunks of vacation. This week, they are, believe it or not, on a "St Patrick's" recess, not for a day, but for a week!!!
There are articles about this in several papers including here in the Chicago Tribune.
It strikes me that if we started paying our officials by the ACTUAL hours that they worked rather than at a flat rate, we could save a lot of money that we could put back into Social Security, or Medicare, or social programs that these same officials keep cutting.
Better still, we could give the money back as tax refunds to all the poor souls out there slaving to raise their families on what these morons think is a fair minimum wage!
BTW, is anyone but me is noting that this is a REPUBLICAN Congress with the shining example of a REPUBLICAN president who has taken his vacation days that would get any civilian fired for chronic absenteeism?
Now returning you back to your workaday world.
Unless you're a Congressperson of course, which means you're on vacation.................
