As Americans Struggle Congress Gives Themselves a Raise

Today marks day eight of no electricity since last week’s ice storm. I now have a generator powering my furnace, well, and some lights. Today we got cable back and so I now have internet access. Try to figure that out, I have cable but no power. How the hell can the cable company get back on-line before the electric company?

Anyway, now that we have the internet back, (for how long?) I was able to check up on some news and I stumble upon this story. The Democrat controlled congress is giving themselves a pay raise. Isn’t that nice?

Americans are struggling in this economy, people are losing their jobs, and congress has the balls to give themselves a raise. A raise that these same struggling Americans are going to be forced to pay for.

As the article linked above states, these same congressional leaders are trying to cap how much executives can make and are also trying to talk auto executives into working for free. They are now poised to receive a $4,700 pay raise.

I expect nothing less from these self-indulgent bastards but it still aggravates the hell out of me that while these people claim that they are here to help the little guy, and they proclaim that they will bring down the greedy capitalist business owners in the name of “social justice” and “economic equality” and they use class envy to divide the country and win elections, they conveniently forget that they are part of the class of people that they claim they will bring down.

This congress had a chance to stop the pay raise, Democrat Harry Mitchell proposed a bill to do just that. The bill never made it out of committee for a vote.

I think we can see where their true loyalty lies.