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Congress gets a pay raise
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Black Landlord wrote:
Yeah, I'm not with you there either wags.
A true public servant would be willing to sacrifice some degree of excess in order to serve. You seem to be justifying graft as a rational response to jealousy of the salaries of others.
I will agree that a few thousand a year to adjust for inflation is not enough to form a lynch mob about.

I'm not justifying it, just pointing it out. I pointed out several areas where I think public servants already make significant sacrifices to serve. I don't think they make a whole lot of money when compared to the private sector people in similar leadership positions. Here's the crux of my argument:

We need to attract the best and brightest into public service. If it helps to pay them commensurately then I'm for it.
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Congress gets a pay raise - by swampy - 12-21-2008, 09:48 PM
Re: Congress gets a pay raise - by Black Landlord - 12-21-2008, 09:58 PM
Re: Congress gets a pay raise - by Mac-A-Matic - 12-21-2008, 09:59 PM
Re: Congress gets a pay raise - by swampy - 12-21-2008, 10:23 PM
Re: Congress gets a pay raise - by Black Landlord - 12-21-2008, 10:47 PM
Re: Congress gets a pay raise - by rgG - 12-21-2008, 11:15 PM
Re: Congress gets a pay raise - by swampy - 12-21-2008, 11:25 PM
Re: Congress gets a pay raise - by Black Landlord - 12-21-2008, 11:45 PM
Re: Congress gets a pay raise - by swampy - 12-22-2008, 12:04 AM
Re: Congress gets a pay raise - by Dennis S - 12-22-2008, 12:36 AM
Re: Congress gets a pay raise - by samintx - 12-22-2008, 12:56 AM
Re: Congress gets a pay raise - by Rick-o - 12-22-2008, 02:47 AM
Re: Congress gets a pay raise - by Wags - 12-22-2008, 03:25 AM
Re: Congress gets a pay raise - by Doc - 12-22-2008, 03:40 AM
Re: Congress gets a pay raise - by samintx - 12-22-2008, 04:24 AM
Re: Congress gets a pay raise - by Wags - 12-22-2008, 04:35 AM
Re: Congress gets a pay raise - by Doc - 12-22-2008, 05:08 AM
Re: Congress gets a pay raise - by Black Landlord - 12-22-2008, 05:23 AM
Re: Congress gets a pay raise - by Wags - 12-22-2008, 05:41 AM
Re: Congress gets a pay raise - by Wags - 12-22-2008, 05:52 AM
Re: Congress gets a pay raise - by MacMagus - 12-22-2008, 02:37 PM
Re: Congress gets a pay raise - by Gutenberg - 12-22-2008, 03:17 PM
Re: Congress gets a pay raise - by MacMagus - 12-22-2008, 03:43 PM
Re: Congress gets a pay raise - by Mac-A-Matic - 12-22-2008, 09:33 PM
Re: Congress gets a pay raise - by swampy - 12-22-2008, 09:51 PM
Re: Congress gets a pay raise - by Mac-A-Matic - 12-23-2008, 01:32 AM

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