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Fabbs
03-03-2011, 01:10 PM
Pubs and Demons alike.
Any of these offered to help the U.S.A. budget out by taking a pay cut?
boutons_deux
03-03-2011, 01:14 PM
The closest has been some freshmen not using the Congressional health insurance. Very ballsy. One guy even had hard time finding for-profit-gouging insurance because of a medical problem. Welcome to Real America.
Spurminator
03-03-2011, 01:25 PM
That would be a hollow symbolic gesture.
admiralsnackbar
03-03-2011, 01:46 PM
That would be a hollow symbolic gesture.
Considering their real profit streams, the same could be said of their salaries.
boutons_deux
03-03-2011, 01:51 PM
To avoid "grandstanding" on the the issue annually or bi-annually, Congress voted themselves automatic pay raises. Up to $174K/year now.

OP, apparently Congress, always sympathetic to the plight of Human-Americans, skipped the automatic pay raise for 2010.
Fabbs
03-03-2011, 01:52 PM
That would be a hollow symbolic gesture.
No.

admiralsnackbar
Considering their real profit streams, the same could be said of their salaries.
Exactly. To see them actually "do as they say they do" instead of "do as i say, not as i do" would be a refreshing rarity for politicos.
CosmicCowboy
03-03-2011, 01:56 PM
My friend Lyle Larson, State Rep for District 122 never took a salary as County Commisshioner and doesn't take a salary as state rep.
ChumpDumper
03-03-2011, 01:58 PM
State reps don't actually do much of anything in Texas, so they don't get paid much of anything.

I don't think turning down $7200 for a few weeks' work every two years is much to brag about.
Spurminator
03-03-2011, 02:15 PM
Considering their real profit streams, the same could be said of their salaries.

I'd rather they work harder to regulate those streams instead of distracting the populace with a PR stunt.
admiralsnackbar
03-03-2011, 02:20 PM
I'd rather they work harder to regulate those streams instead of distracting the populace with a PR stunt.

That would be like telling Liberace he'd have more success trying to be like Bill Evans. Evans died a penny-less, tooth-less jazz saint. Liberace died shit-eating rich and is still a household name (even if it's derisively).