The Congress is suggesting giving itself a 5% pay cut. I agree with the move and heartily endorse it. However it does not remotely deal with the budget deficit. The savings is only about $3 million a year. It is an insufficient move.
To give the bill real substance if should be amended to requires Members of Congress to give up their healthcare and live with whatever they mandate for the rest of us. To really add substance to the bill I also call for a provision which gives the same 5% cut to all federal employees who make over $100,000.
One last provision should be that all federal employee pay raises given in the last 18 months should be rolled back. The rest of America has had their pay cut during that same time so why are we being asked to fund pay raises for federal employees.
Another provision should require that the entire savings from this bill should be put into the Social Security Lockbox to redeem IOU’s which Congress has put in the lockbox as they took out every bit of cash that Social Security has generated. We must start to solve the problems with Social Security’s insolvency.

















