Do you ever wonder how the lawmakers are going to cut waste in government spending when they can't even agree on the little things like Military funding, social security payments, etc.? I often wonder what it must be like for our elected officials in Washington. How do they find the time to author, discuss, write and present those laws that affect all of us in as little as one year?
Lawmakers take not only two weeks a year vacation plus all the "legal" holidays, they take summer breaks, Christmas breaks and sometimes up to a week off for every holiday that falls during the week. That amounts to almost 26 weeks a year and leaves only 26 weeks to pass all those well conceived bills. That is if they can agree by majority.
Now members of congress make, in general terms, $174,000 annually and if you include the $100,000 in taxpayer-funded fringe benefits, it equals around $274,000 a year! I don't know about the average person, but I would have loved to have earned $174,000 per year in my time of employment. Given that amount, it would have equaled approximately $537 per day, (subtracting 14 days vacation, 24 weekend days and seven paid holidays), of actual work days. For members of Congress, they would put in approximately 130 days per year and taking only salary into consideration, they make roughly $1338 per day plus benefits.
So, how can they possibly balance the budget AND cut spending when they are already waist deep in waste without ever creating a single piece of legislation?
Someone please enlighten me.
Lawmakers take not only two weeks a year vacation plus all the "legal" holidays, they take summer breaks, Christmas breaks and sometimes up to a week off for every holiday that falls during the week. That amounts to almost 26 weeks a year and leaves only 26 weeks to pass all those well conceived bills. That is if they can agree by majority.
Now members of congress make, in general terms, $174,000 annually and if you include the $100,000 in taxpayer-funded fringe benefits, it equals around $274,000 a year! I don't know about the average person, but I would have loved to have earned $174,000 per year in my time of employment. Given that amount, it would have equaled approximately $537 per day, (subtracting 14 days vacation, 24 weekend days and seven paid holidays), of actual work days. For members of Congress, they would put in approximately 130 days per year and taking only salary into consideration, they make roughly $1338 per day plus benefits.
So, how can they possibly balance the budget AND cut spending when they are already waist deep in waste without ever creating a single piece of legislation?
Someone please enlighten me.
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