As if the historically low 17 percent approval rating of Congress wasn’t low enough, certain members of congress seem to want to get this even lower.

Despite unemployment rates that have hovered just below double digits for a very long time, record foreclosures and a stagnant economy that can’t get moving, some members of congress are whining about their low paychecks. I am not kidding. Does it infuriate you??

Even though members of Congress are paid $174,000 a year, get a month off for summer, weeks off for the holiday season, paid travel, excellent health care and plenty of under the table lobbyists perks, these spoiled idiots are saying they are not being paid enough. All while trying to cut spending and put decent government workers out of job.

First up, we have Republican idiot Steve Southerland from Florida. Speaking to a retirement community in Tallahassee, the freshman congressman complained about some of the parts of his new job. He claimed that his salary is not so much because of the amount of hours he puts in. He said there was no instant pensions or free health insurance. Yeah, none of us “normal” folks get that either, jackass.

“And by the way, did I mention? They’re shooting at us. There is law-enforcement security in this room right now, and why is that?” Southerland told about 125 people in an auditorium at the Westminster Oaks retirement community.

“If you think this job pays too much, with those kinds of risks and cutting me off from my family business, I’ll just tell you: This job don’t mean that much to me. I had a good life in Panama City,” Southerland whined.”…He added that ‘if you took the hours that I work and divided it into my pay,’ the $174,000 salary would not seem so high.”

Southerland was a funeral home director before he became a congressman, making about $90,000 a year.

Rep. Sean Duffy from Wisconsin (remember the state that complained teachers’ salaries were too high????????) also complained about his paycheck a few months ago. He said it was a “struggle” to pay his mortgage and student loans with his congressional salary. “At this point, I’m not living high on the hog,” Duffy, a father of six, said.

Sorry, Mr. Duffy, but I don’t feel sorry for you at all. Buy a freakin smaller house. Use birth control. That is the same bullshit you as a Republican would tell a mother when you cut off her food stamps.

It is not only Republicans that whine though. Linda Sanchez, a Democrat from California, told MSNBC last spring that she was living “paycheck to paycheck.” Wow, these people need to budget a little better. You make more than four times what my husband and me make together.

You stupid lawmakers always have the nerve to tell us to cut out expenses. Really? If you can’t make it at six figures, what the hell else can I cut?

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About the author

Erin Chavez
Erin Whitney-Chavez has been writing professionally since 2009. She obtained her Bachelor of Arts from St. Bonaventure University and received a Master of Arts in mental-health counseling from Argosy University. Erin Whitney-Chavez is a licensed mental health counselor and has worked in the mental-health field for more than 10 years.

2 Comments for Congress Complains About Six Figure Salary

Unique-Magic

**(To the author: actually this is a government class assignment, we had to read a blog or article complaining about Congress and then we had to analyze it, address the complaint by explaining how the structure of Congress lends itself to this problem. and making a suggestion about a structural change that would need to take place in order to avoid this problem/complaint.) **

The congress is complaining about the jobs and their salaries? The article says what work do they do? or what did they ever do to ask for more money and what gave them the right to complain about their jobs when all the other “normal” folks as the author puts in don’t even make that much even if their whole family works. The Congress got them in this problem by asking more money/salary when they are not doing their job and complaining about it as the author says in the article.
What Congress can do is to stop asking for more salary and spend much more time on how to do their jobs, because that’s why they are hired in the first place to serve the people. So if the people of their country are not happy with them then they are not doing a good job!!! Congress needs to interact with people more so that they knows what’s going on and what they need to do make people happy. Right now people don’t know what is Congress doing? And what is Congress doing?? Do we (people) know?? What people do know or seems to know is that Congress is just a place where this big rich people are who don’t do anything and still make a lot of money what we (people) can’t make in our lifetime no matter how hard we work!! So the Congress needs to make sure that they are just not asking for more salary but also doing their job! Congress and people (citizens) needs to come together and end the big rift between them so that they are more closer and can understand each other and the problems that need to be solved instead of more salary….

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Roxana

Frist of all Congress should not complain about their salary if America is in a economic crisis. They should find a way to improve the economic rather then wasting their time complaning about their paychecks. America has a high unemployment rates and congress are not doing anything about it. Congress should reflect the concerns of the people instead of attempted to repeal health care reform they should worried about the economic performances.

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