By giving the elected officials to vote for their own perks is fox guarding the hen house?

Two words... blank check!

greed will take you over if you let it

we the people should vote for the pay/ benefit package

they are ripping us off they are now the 1 % and they are sucking the u.s.a. dry we need to cut all of there perks and no retirement why are we paying them for not doing there jobs they only work about 60 days a year they should put there self under the bus first

Agree

definitely

There are probably a few honest men in Congress, but it is clear that most of them use insider information and even threats against companies and industries to extort money. Almost every Congressmen or Senate gains hugely in wealth after he or she goes to Congress. It is not even their compensation and retirement that is the worst of it. It is that absolute power corrupts and a Congress that sneers at the idea of limited government and constitutional limitations to its power, is one with absolute power. Congress is a cesspool of corruption, which can only be cleaned by slashing the power of the government.

I usually think of it as the inmates are running the asylum, but your way works too. :)

One would think so

The question should be: By giving elected officials the right to vote for their own perks, is the this allowing the fox to guard the hen house? The answer to THIS QUESTION is "YES!!!!!!"

SO TRUE

Yea, it;s pretty bad. Any benefits granted should go to public for vote, or a suitable way for the citizens of this country have a say in what they receive. Hard to know what that would look like, what would be fair and how would that be managed.

What about the CEO's of these mega-corps, even some that are losing their ass. The CEO's of these multimillion and billion dollar companies have millions stashed and\or some incredible pension under a different plan than what workers have. It's hardly any different from our politicians. You can stretch the point to our unions also pushing for higher pay and more benefits. The system might work so long as nobody gets too greedy.

It's the American way to let these politicians and CEO's have at it. After all, we don't want to impose any regulation that might be considered "socialist." Way the system works, it would be very hard to change. The problem isn't a new one, and I have no idea who or how could or would change things for the better.

As long as the FOX is in charge if the Hen House door , nothing will change....

Now , lets see if you think they will vote to take guard duty away?

It would be nice if the people of USA were able to vote on this subject. People should be in political office for ideals and to help the country. Not to be paid well for the time they are there and forever after.

The answer is putting it in front of the voters but they may open up Pandora’s box - I for one could care less - it’s time to get our nation set on the right track - the way we are living today SUCKS and does NOT represent the America I grew up in...

It's sad but elected officials look out for themselves rather than the people. It's why they get paid more while education suffers & we fight for them instead of them fighting for us!

I am offended by all these anti-fox terms our culture seems to have...if chickens were not so tasty maybe foxes would leave them alone.
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There shouldn't be any perks. They should get a wage and that's all.

It's just plain stupid that they can vote for more for themseves. They already get way more than they should be getting. All they care about is themselves. They don't see us as people, they see us as tax payers and that is all they will ever see us as until we the people can take away all those perks and replace it with wanting to serve the people not rape the people.

THE DEMOCRATS IN THERE UNINTERRUPTED 40 YEARS OF POWER ON THE HILL ROBED THE PUBLIC BLIND IT NEEDS TO COME TO A STOP. BILL CLINTON'S BAD POLICIES AND WEAK GOVERNING BROK THAT CYCLE. AT THAT POINT NEWT GINGRICH BALANCED THE BUDGET AS THE LIBERAL AND BILL HIMSELF TAKE ADVANTAGE OF AMERICANS LACK OF KNOWLEDGE ON HOW OUR GOVERNMENT IS RUN.

if you say so!

I THINK YOU CAN,T JUST SAY ONE PARTY DOES IT ALL BECAUSE THEN YOU ARE SAYING THAT HALF THE FOXES ARE GOOD FOXES THAT JUST SOUNDS WRONG

All raises and perks should be subject to general elections. The whole every-congessman-is-set-for-life business has to go too.

It's disgusting.

Of COURSE they are corrupt, they are running a criminal enterprise!

Okay bob you are starting to worry me now, have you misplaced you meds again, this the 2nd question you've posted that has used the phrase "Elected Officals" If you meant to do that, then I know the world is ending soon !!!!! RUN EVERYONE bob IS BEING EVEN HANDED AHHHHHHH!!!!!!! :):):):):)

I think the fox is not only guarding the hen house, he's moved in, set up house keeping, and is demanding property owners rights.

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What is most troubling to me is that Congress always exempts themselves from most of the laws and reguletions that they pass for the rest of us to live by. This is not a new thing this has been going on for a very long time. For example after they serve one term or shorter as long as they are not found guilty of breaking any laws while in office they get a fuul pension and health care and they exempt themselves from the prorated formula based on years of service that the rest of us have to deal with. The worst of it is that our tax money is paying for their perks and that is only one example.

They are mainly paid by their owners, the banksters, because there is too much public record regarding their stock transactions via the disclosure documents they are required to produce regularly. So, you can do a seach to see what sort of activity they have had in the market. It's a Red Herring to distract us from other uncomfortable facts that are starting to surface, but hasn't yet hit the media.

I'm sorry, I hit the wrong button, the fox is definitely guarding the hen house!

We need to throw them ALL out, eliminate the lobby, and start over with legislators who represent their constituents instead of their campaign contributors. Too easy!

Of course. Have you known them to deny themselves anything?

The fox is IN the hen house. The fox is devouring chickens left and right. The fox has nothing to worry about because all the farmers (American voters) are asleep or apathetic.

Why would they care what happens to us if their choices don't effect them?

As good a comparison as I have ever read.

That's a DUH!!! question.

ugh!!!!

If they were paid by performance they would all owe us money.