\nI read this blog article today (Sorry I can’t get the link thingy to work)<\/p>\n
http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/blogs\/ticket\/members-congress-paid-enough-165641960.html<\/p>\n
When did $174,000 a year, plus some seriously good benefits, become crappy wages? Even without the benefits, I wouldn\u2019t complain about making $174,000 a year. Hell, I\u2019d take the job just for the vacation time that they get.<\/p>\n
Most American workers make far less than $50,000 a year with little or no benefits. Some workers also get shot at on a regular basis for way less than $100,000 a year. Exactly how much are we currently paying our entry level military personnel again? Most workers are expected to get their job done no matter how much time it may take to accomplish the tasks that they are assigned. How much time do you think a public school teacher has to put in at their job to get our children to a point that they can intellectually compete, let alone win? Last time I checked, if I remember correctly, weren\u2019t entry level teachers making less than $25,000 a year? <\/p>\n
Even working 24 hours a day, seven days a week, all 52 weeks of the year, $174,000 a year works out to be about $19.92 an hour. Kind of makes the federal minimum wage look like chump change doesn\u2019t it? Oh, wait, $7.25 an hour IS chump change. IMHO, anyway. <\/p>\n
If the Representatives mentioned (or any others not mentioned) in the article don\u2019t like the wages or hours of their political positions then why did they seek election to them in the first place? Swooned with the power of it all, I imagine. If they were better off in their regular lives, why didn\u2019t they just stay there? I\u2019m sure the rest of us probably wish they had.<\/p>\n
It will be interesting to see if they seek re-election in the future since they\u2019ve found the job is just not what it must have been cracked up to be. I know I wouldn\u2019t blame them if they resigned tomorrow. I hate to see anything suffer. Especially us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Geez, give them a month’s vacation and they still complain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,26,1428],"tags":[4156,4153,2392,4152],"class_list":["post-60248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-news","category-politics-2","tag-entry-level","tag-representatives","tag-suffering","tag-underpaid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}