Members of Congress may be about to get a pay raise for the first time since 2009
www.businessinsider.com
Lawmakers could get as high as a $6,600 pay raise as part of a short-term government funding bill that's set to get a vote this week.

“COL raise for me but not for thee.”

  • Soup@lemmy.world
    1·
    10 days ago

    You said that they don’t represent the people, I was correcting you. Neither of us enjoy the fact that they represent an unfortunate number of people, but they do.

    What this also means is that they can be removed if enough people stop fucking voting for them. They are not kings, not yet anyway.

    • karl_chungus@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      2·
      9 days ago

      I never said they didn’t? But I get how you got there.

      Agreed, we need to pick our representatives better :(

      • Soup@lemmy.world
        1·
        9 days ago

        I’ll take that.

        I just hope we figure out how to not suck before picking our representatives becomes…more difficult.