Congress Gets a $2.5 Million Raise

Cartoon From Jewish World Review Gary Varvell

From Pajamas Media - Roger Kimball
Excerpt from FreeRepublic by AJKauf

In the past, whenever I heard that Congress had voted itself a raise (Shh! Don’t spread the news around, Comrade!), I shrugged it off. “Nice work if you can get,” was my basic reaction. I did not think highly of members of Congress as a group–a preening bunch of socialistically-inclined bureaucrats, most of them, I thought–but they were necessary, as in a “necessary evil.”

Somebody had to mind the wheels of gummint, and better they than I.

Somehow it was different this time. The sotto voce announcement that Congress, after wagging their collective head over executive pay and perks, decided to vote itself a $2.5 million raise was a depressing portent....
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