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Sep. 5th, 2003 09:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
taerowynYes, because politicians always need more money.
In the NY Times article on the same story it was called a "cost-of-living" raise. I'm sorry, if they think you need $158,000 a year to live, there definitely needs to be a re-calculation of minimum wage. And everybody in Congress should be required to read Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America (good book, by the way).
Like the representative from Utah though. The Times article quotes him as saying "We are fighting terrorism on numerous fronts and our economy is in serious trouble, unemployment is at record high levels, and our future budget defecits are predicted to be the highest in the history of this great nation. Now is not the time for members of Congress to be voting themselves a pay raise."
You think?
In the NY Times article on the same story it was called a "cost-of-living" raise. I'm sorry, if they think you need $158,000 a year to live, there definitely needs to be a re-calculation of minimum wage. And everybody in Congress should be required to read Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America (good book, by the way).
Like the representative from Utah though. The Times article quotes him as saying "We are fighting terrorism on numerous fronts and our economy is in serious trouble, unemployment is at record high levels, and our future budget defecits are predicted to be the highest in the history of this great nation. Now is not the time for members of Congress to be voting themselves a pay raise."
You think?