quote:The 2.5 percent congressional increase would raise each level of the executive pay scale, which is also used to set salaries for SES members. All senior executives currently are capped at Level 3 of the Executive Schedule, which is $145,600. The cap would increase to roughly $149,000 in 2005 if Congress approves its raise
I heard on the noon news that it was approved by Congress.
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Well, they do have to give themselves a raise every once in awhile due to inflation and the 27th amendment prevents that raise from actually going to them as opposed to the next congress. Now on the other hand those huge staffs...
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Actually, a 2.5% raise is crap. As far as economically speaking, they should have given at least 3% to cover inflation. But as for their recent performance, they deserve a pay cut.
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One thing this does is allow top federal jobs to get a raise. The pay for executives is tied to the congressional salary. I can't help but think they're tied together so congress can pretend to have an altruistic reason to give themselves a raise.
Plus the next Congress will be moslty incumbents, so they are giving themselves a raise.
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I think that Congress should get merit raises, like many are pushing for teachers. We as citizens should rate their performance and decide at election time whether or not they deserve it. I also think that in hard economic times, they take pay cuts to share the load with the citizens who have lost jobs or had no raises (my wife hasn't had one in two years and I barely got one this year). But hey, I don't write the rules: They do.
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My mom and Dad both work for an airline, neither has had a raise in the last 6 years because of airline troubles. Why should that affect whether people in other industries should get raises or not?
I'm not saying congress should get a raise, I'm merely saying I believe your argument to be rather weak.
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Weak? Why? If the government had the same expecations of the airline industry, THEY should have had pay cuts long ago! The government is in debt up to its ears and that isn't because of tax and spend liberals from the 90's, it is from cut tax and spend more supporters in the White House and current congress (Republican and Democrat alike). If the airline industry is in trouble and can't give raises, fine. Why can't the same thing be expected of those that run the government?
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