In A Time Of Crisis

In our recent economic crisis we, our government has come up with many ideas on how to create jobs, decrease national debt, and simply put… strength our crumbling economy.  It seems that everyone in Washington is trying to find a way to decrease our spending.  But no one considers one area of spending   too much….our congressmen’s salaries along with other government employees.  Why doesn’t anyone bring this up for question?  We are talking about being a troubled time, when we must make some sacrifices to get us out of the whole we are in, so why it is so bad to decrease their salaries a bit?  

Many government employees make more than the president!  The average salary for a congressmen is $174,000, and salaries for party leaders exceed that.  This doesn’t include all of the benefits they receive which is much greater than most of our professions offer.  And according to many sources this is increasing.

I am in no way trying to say that their jobs aren’t important and worthy of a substantial pay. But I do think they are entitled to a fair pay… not an enormous and lucrative one, just because they are politicians and apparently we have so much money we are giving out raises consistently.

It is fair to say they hold the important task of running our government, and should be paid accordingly, but I can’t understand how we are in a debt crisis and while so many people are losing their jobs because of how bad our economy is our government employees are getting raises with their already high salaries.  Maybe it’s time we cap that!