Members of Congress may be about to get a pay raise for the first since 2009 (www.businessinsider.com)

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“COL living raise for me but not for thee.”

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[-] saigot@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Oooo time for me to reveal my hottest take. Politicians are generally very underpaid. When a job puts you under a microscope, involves people yelling at you and inherently lacks job security it better be pretty well paid. And yet any electable, competent politician could turn around and make at least 2-3x as much (as they are making legitimately at least) doing something else and keep having weird sex without newspapers writing stories about them. No one who is rational and not evil would ever go into politics just for money of it so all that's left is the corrupt, the truly dumb and the unpractical idealists.

If you want better politicians then pay for it. Give them all multi-million dollars salaries, ban them from stock exchange, and keep paying them even if they lose.

[-] karl_chungus@lemm.ee 8 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Only issue is we’re supposed to be their boss. Americans elect representatives to do the job of representing us. If they don’t do their job they shouldn’t be paid, and overall public support for representatives is incredibly low because of the behavior you’re advocating to pay them off in order to avoid doing.

Not sure where you work but if I stopped doing my job I’d expect a firing, not a raise.

To solve both problems the public needs to scrutinize the shit out of their elected officials and be more willing to throw them to the side when they stop being useful, like corporations do to us all the time.

[-] saigot@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 hour ago

If one employee sucks fire them. If all your employees suck maybe you should do something to attract better talent.

[-] karl_chungus@lemm.ee 1 points 52 minutes ago

Yeah I see what you’re getting at, but not a fan of rewarding bad behavior which is really all throwing money at establishment politicians will ever do.

[-] Soup@lemmy.world 1 points 42 minutes ago

Well if your dogshit country actually had a spine and three braincells to knock together, maybe. Ya’ll literally couldn’t even keep the most obvious fascist of all time out of office after he failed so bad the first time. As a country you deserve this and to the people who still did their best I’m sorry they have to deal with this.

Look Canada isn’t much better, we vote for garbage(or don’t show up to vote for better) and we get garbage. These people don’t hide who they are, they absolutely represent the population both directly and indirectly.

[-] karl_chungus@lemm.ee 1 points 31 minutes ago* (last edited 30 minutes ago)

Trust me I’m well aware of the failings of my country. That doesn’t mean I can’t recognize one of them or that you have to remind me of their existence when I do.

In other words, I get it but you’re not helping.

[-] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 38 points 3 hours ago

Fuck that. Worthless cunts.

[-] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 3 hours ago

Lol, that's is not even the most egregious thing.

The insider stock trading is far worse

[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 hours ago

This is just the frosting on top, tbh. An extra little “fuck you <3” to the American taxpayers.

[-] KenTheEagle@lemmy.world 19 points 3 hours ago

Guess the tv appearances, podcasts, book sales, and other meaningless things the hustle isn't enough. Minimum wage is still 7 bucks

[-] AshMan85@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Can raise wages for them selves but not the people.

[-] ccunning@lemmy.world 14 points 3 hours ago

I assume this will coincide with a commiserate raise in the minimum wage, right?

Right?

[-] lettruthout@lemmy.world 6 points 3 hours ago

And yet (for many) their net worth has increased significantly while in office.

[-] ceenote@lemmy.world 7 points 3 hours ago

If they outlaw congressional stock trading, I'm fine with them doubling their salary.

[-] karl_chungus@lemm.ee 1 points 1 hour ago

If we outlaw it they’ll just go around it using someone else as a proxy. Must try harder. :(

[-] Bronzebeard@lemm.ee 1 points 17 minutes ago

Best do nothing then!

So with the bullshit down and gloom, that's how they get away with never fixing anything. It's also a lot easier to trace insider trading when they go through a proxy.

[-] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

For what?

[-] ramsorge@discuss.online 2 points 2 hours ago

Undeserved.

[-] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

GFY.

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