At over three times the median U.S. household income, this Democratic congressman thinks he and his fellow representatives deserve a raise.
Rep. Jim Moran (D., Va.) told CQ Roll Call members of Congress are “underpaid” and he plans to introduce an amendment to correct the injustice.“I understand that it’s widely felt that they underperform, but the fact is that this is the board of directors for the largest economic entity in the world,” he said.
While that claim is not technically true (the European Union is the largest economic entity in the world), let’s assume for a moment that being on the U.S. “board of directors” should warrant a raise for Congress.
Congressional salaries have been frozen since 2010, but regular members still pull in $174,000 per year – more than triple the 2013 median U.S. household income of $52,000. Leadership positions are compensated higher.
Additionally, the “board of directors” has not exactly been delivering for their “shareholders.” Unemployment remains a staggering 6.7 percent, and the labor participation rate hovers at historical lows.
Source: Washington Free Beacon
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Get out into the real word, bud. People are starving, lost their homes and jobs. This is the “perfect” Utopian world: the elites have all the wealth and privilege at the top, and the worms at the bottom get the scraps thrown to them.
They stopped working for us long ago. Fire them all and pay their replacements half of what they get until they earn a raise!
Do your job cry baby !!! You voted to take money from our military so , go shove it up you lib. Ass
Let’s trade places. You won’t last a month if that you greedy bastards.
Not only overpaid but all the benefits they get are outrageous. Try to live like most Americans and then try to tell us you are underpaid. Get rid of every last one of them. Should be a privilege to serve and not a paid career.
”What arrogance?”
Underworked and definitely overpaid.
They already get more free money and pros than the people who pay their high dollar salaries. We are losing everything and they keep taking more and more. After they get all of the money, they will still want a dollar more!!! Greedy Pigs!
what a fool