Congress Gave $6.1M in Bonuses to Public Service Staff: Deserving or Outrageous?
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2011/06/27 11:18:15
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We don't want to seem like we would deny any hard-working Joe a bonus, but is this fair that government staff are still getting bonuses when the government barely stops arguing long enough to function properly?
The bonuses went to the staff, but this is still taxpayer money, and the taxpayers themselves certainly aren't seeing their benefits boosted lately.
Even as the austerity-conscious House was threatening a government shutdown earlier this year, dozens of representatives were giving their staff $6.1 million in bonuses.
The bonuses went to the staff, but this is still taxpayer money, and the taxpayers themselves certainly aren't seeing their benefits boosted lately.
Read More: http://www.newser.com/story/121976/congress-dished...
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Marie/M2M2K™-#1Conservative... 2011/06/27 14:59:16
Because this is a COPY from the Poll that I PUT UP on 26 May 2011 ...
Although I am skeptical about Congressional staff being underpaid, I think CNN is guilty of poor reporting in this story. I'm not going to jump all over them, because they did make clear that, preliminarily, the Party bearing responsibility for the lion's share of bonuses was the Democrats, who, IMHO, CNN is prone to favor, and, after all, they reported the story in the first place. Nonetheless, this is a story about the individual acts of individual members; I don't think this should be cast as a story where the House needs defend itself - other than to justify the dollar amo...
Although I am skeptical about Congressional staff being underpaid, I think CNN is guilty of poor reporting in this story. I'm not going to jump all over them, because they did make clear that, preliminarily, the Party bearing responsibility for the lion's share of bonuses was the Democrats, who, IMHO, CNN is prone to favor, and, after all, they reported the story in the first place. Nonetheless, this is a story about the individual acts of individual members; I don't think this should be cast as a story where the House needs defend itself - other than to justify the dollar amount over which individual members are given discretionary authority to allocate; this story seems to be about what each individual member has done w/ his/her allotment and he/she should be required to account for what s/he did. If some Congressional staffer got a $10K bonus for identifying and highlighting a billion dollar DoD or DHHS boondoggle, I'm not going to be too prone to criticize his/her boss for giving the person the bonus. But this shouldn't be done in a closet; make individual members account for the allocations they make with their discretionary spending.
oh-and congress can pay for this by taking a corresponding 13.2 M pay cut
My money gets stolen to pay their salary. If I object too strenuously, I get shot.
My boss voluntarily pays me in exchange for the value I add to his company.
Eskom sounds like any other state-granted monopoly, just based on the 60 seconds of research I was willing to look it up. More proof that government is evil. Some of it might be necessary, but that doesn't make it not-evil.
We all get the government we deserve.