PELOSI SPEAKS OF THE ‘DIGNITY OF LAWMAKERS’ JOBS’…

 

 

Our somewhat less than stellar, House Minority Leader, Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that she opposes any cut in congressional pay. She says her opposition to it is because, now get this and remember it's Pelosi who's saying it, it would diminish the dignity of lawmakers' jobs. No, Nancy, what actually diminishes the dignity lawmakers' jobs, is the fact that we have dishonest and corrupt people like you to doing those jobs. People who seem far more interested in doing what's best for themselves and nor what's best for the country. "I don't think we should do it; I think we should respect the work we do," Pelosi told reporters in the Capitol. "I think it's necessary for us to have the dignity of the job that we have rewarded." Me thinks old Nancy has quite the big head!

Her rather arrogant comments were made in the context of the looming sequester, which would force across-the-board cuts affecting most federal offices, including Congress. With lawmakers nowhere near a deal to avert those cuts, federal agencies are bracing for ways to absorb them with minimum damage to programs and personnel. Pelosi, whose husband is a wealthy real-estate developer, was quick to note that a cut in her own pay would be far less significant than that for both staffers and less wealthy members of Congress. "It's a hard question to ask me because most of my colleagues are the breadwinners in their families," she said. "A pay cut to me doesn't mean as much." Sorry, but I find more than a little hard to believe that we have members of Congress who are living paycheck to paycheck.

Pelosi also emphasized that Congress should do everything it can to preclude such decisions by preventing the sequester cuts from taking effect at all. "A sequester should be out of the question," she said. Still, with the clock ticking down to March 1 – and with both chambers of Congress out of town next week – the chances of reaching a deal are growing slimmer. With that in mind, some lawmakers say they're hoping for the best but preparing for the worst. "We are, in fact, obviously contemplating a sequester," Rep. Steny Hoyer said this week. "Obviously we are going to take a cut, like everybody else, and we will have to accommodate that." Look, this whole sequester thing was little Barry's ploy, and now it's the Democrats who are whining the loudest about it going into effect! Boo-freakin-hoo!!!

And yet, hardly any of these overpaid servants of the people, especially on the Democrat side, ever have the slightest reservations about cost saving at the expense of those in the military or our veterans. The see it as being completely acceptable to propose cutting the pay of our service members or reducing the benefits currently received by our veterans. These are the folks who are now defending our country, and those who have done so in the past. Too many of these men and women put their lives on the line every single day. And yet I'm somehow supposed to be all concerned about whether or not overpaid members of Congress will be able to make it until their next paycheck? Really? What hardships to these people ever experience? They should be made to hold real jobs and serve for free!