Obama Orders Congress an $11 Billion Pay Increase
December 31st, 2012
See if this sounds familiar. A large corporation, one of those “too big to fail” types, is teetering on the edge of bankruptcy. They’re gnashing their teeth and wringing their hands and begging for a bail out to keep themselves afloat. The next thing we hear the CEO and Board of Directors are getting are getting fat bonuses, the employees are getting laid off, and the company is drifting into insolvency. It’s a story as old as corporate fascism itself.
With that in mind, when you hear congress and their media cronies come out whining about how they need to squeeze a little more money out of your pocket or they’re going to have to lay off police and fire fighters, and throw old people into the snow, and let children be educated by wolves, and the roads, the roads, for God’s sake WHAT ABOUT THE ROADS!!! … Keep in mind that while the whole nation teeters on the edge of that fiscal cliff, Obama and Congress just gave themselves a raise.
Let there be no doubt, the US government is run by corporate fascists. Both parties. Three branches. All levels.
By executive order from Obama himself the pay freeze that had been in place for federal employees has been lifted, and among the “workers” to be the first to receive a pay increase is Joe Biden. Nepotism, thy name is government.
Biden previously made $225,521 per year, and will now make $231,900 per year. Compare that to the median household income in the US at the beginning of 2012, which was $51,413. You have to ask yourself, is Joe Biden worth 4.5 working families? I wouldn’t even give him a dime if he was begging in the street.
Members of Congress, in the House and the Senate, will now be making $174,900 per year, or 3.4 working families each.
After all the melodrama about avoiding economic catastrophe, surely the fiscal conservatives stood firmly against this $11 billion spending increase. I haven’t heard a peep. Because, budget cuts are for you, not for them. They’re happy to grab all they can before the crash, leaving you to pick up the pieces at the end.
Here’s the best part. According to a senior Republican congressional aide, “the pay hike as proposed by the President’s Exec Order would not go into effect until April 1st, 2013.” It’s not a joke, but they are making a fool of you.
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