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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMemes I'm tired of: "Congress should give up their pay during shutdowns"
Look. I'm sure you mean well, sharing that, but think for Christ's sake. This gives independently wealthy Congressmen immense leverage over those who aren't. AOC can't afford to stay in town if she stops getting paid. Please put this right-wing meme in the dumpster where it belongs.
in general I think talking about Congressional salary always seems like a distraction from a real issue.
unblock
(52,253 posts)If the people don't own them, someone else will.
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,330 posts)There are representatives and senators worth $100 million dollars. They still manage to get bought.
Recursion
(56,582 posts)Tom Delay tried that and wound up in jail for a while
Empowerer
(3,900 posts)It also punishes members who have no responsibility for the shutdown and are doing everything they can to prevent it.
Dumb idea.
WeekiWater
(3,259 posts)I also have no yearning to see people work without pay.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)No, the president's job is right there in the oath of office: To preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States of America. No Constitution, no United States.
FakeNoose
(32,645 posts)Nobody in Congress wants it. So yeah I agree, we need to do a better job of thinking this through.
1) No government shutdown - ever!
2) Anytime the government shuts down, only one person is at fault - the President.
3) The losses are too great for this to ever be allowed to happen again.
4) It's up to Congress working together to safeguard our country and our security. We already know the pResident can't do it.
ooky
(8,924 posts)Pass a law that the government stays open at present spending levels when the two parties/president can't agree. This bullshit destruction of the citizens lives needs to end.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)Every election, any democrat, period.
Any democrat, A N Y
Ferrets are Cool
(21,107 posts)The way I respond is "How about they just make it ILLEGAL to shut down OUR government?"
shanny
(6,709 posts)David__77
(23,421 posts)I also don't like other things, like a political candidate making a campaign issue out of forgoing fringe benefits of elected office. Fringe benefits may be fine in my opinion, provided that there's transparency regarding what they are! A local candidate advertised that he wouldn't take advantage of free parking if elected to city council. I believe he's affluent, and I view his gesture with full understanding of that.
Fresh_Start
(11,330 posts)put their staffs on shutdown.
Recursion
(56,582 posts)That would include everybody from the trained lawyers who actually write the words of laws to the admin assistants who make 435 copies of each bill to distribute to the House.
Fresh_Start
(11,330 posts)in solving the shutdown