To increase their pay during a down economy, with huge deficits and two wars going on is just plain stupid.
I believe we should pay our legislators a fair amount. I think it's just incredibly insensitive to raise their own pay when millions of Americans are out of work and those that ARE working aren't getting much in the way of raises.
This would've been a really easy issue for the Democrats to take control on. It would've been a huge PR victory for them if they'd united against the raise. Instead, they sold out for a few thousand bucks.
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