Cong. Must Eliminate Its Own Pensions, Reduce Its Salaries-Before Cutting a Dime From Middle Class

[Derechos]

Dear Members of Congress:

You keep telling us that we are broke.

Yet, you pay yourselves a whopping $174,000 per year, provide gyms with pools and steamrooms for members, and healthcare and nice cushy pensions.

Sorry, girls and boys, but we cannot afford it anymore. We are broke.

Before you touch a hair on the chinny-chin-chin of benefits for the middle class and poor, before you reduce payments to any healthcare providers, before you cut a dime from a social security recipient's benefits, before you mess with the citizens of this country, we ALL demand that you eliminate your pensions, past, present and future.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-abrams/congress-must-eliminate-its-pensions_b_907807.html

[Oceansaway]

k & r..nt

[Oceansaway]

1. k & r..nt

[UpInArms]

2. and the chaplain's offices and salaries - those should be

donated - or they can pass the hat/plate -

get it off the taxpayers' dime

www.legistorm.com/office/Senate_Chaplain/2.html

[BeyondGeography]

3. Because the private sector ain't so tempting in comparison anymore

C'mon in, the water's, um, ice cold.

[Angry Dragon]

4. Get rid of the medical also

No more junkets

[msongs]

5. Hve u noticed that not ONE member of congress/white house calling to end their pensions/health care?

Not congress, not obama, not biden, not the supreme court, not one of the *%&*%(%( is calling for ANY sacrifice on their own parts.

[Faryn Balyncd]

6. 35K sounds about right, if they pay their own medical premiums, and fund their own 401K

[TomCADem]

7. You Do Know That Darell Issa Is Demanding An Increase In His Budget?

He also said that during the federal budget debate that his staff should be exempt from furloughs...

[snagglepuss]

8. That needs to go viral. That demand should be on the lips of every

American that doesn't have healthcare or a cushy pension.

[Babel_17]

9. Cut their ability to earn lobbying $$$ (nt)

[bigwillq]

10. K and R

:thumbsup:

[ThomWV]

11. This is nothing but a Right-wing distraction, a talking point, another "hate Congress" message

People, quit being so easy to manipulate.