Republicans: giving us less and still demanding full price

[riqster]

Congress is taking most of the year off, but still gets paid the big bucks. They are also impeding the work of other agencies, but we are still paying for what they prevent us from getting: http://bluntandcranky.wordpress.com/2013/03/08/when-doing-nothing-is-what-you-do/

[DetlefK]

1. How about dividing their yearly salary into a matching daily salary...

Public servants earn this much and get this many days of vacation per year. Fine.

They obviously don't call in sick, so what's their excuse for staying away from work again?

[riqster]

2. It's how the House Leadership set up the calendar

Explanation? From the Boehner Brigade? Not likely.

[Tagish_Charlie]

3. As a retired firefighter, I have to say this about Congress,

If I had done my job the way they are doing theirs,there would be dead babies and burned buildings all over town!

[riqster]

4. This. nt