why shouldn't our governmental reps be paid by the hour?
have you noticed how many jobs have become wage paid, not salary paid? to make a salary, the law states that you must have managerial duties. that means that you’ll be working more than 40 hours a week without extra pay.
since congressmen are not working at all during many weeks of the year, and when they are, they work only 103 hours, on average, per month, why not take their salaries (which they want upped now to 0,000/year) and break them down into hourly wages?
then they too will have to punch a time clock and put their finger onto a pad to verify it is THEY that are working in their offices or wherever else, but the work must be on our behalf, accounted for YOU AND I.
why not have citizens that are now unemployed/underemployed due to population increase and amnesty be their supervisors? to sign the time slip each day? so that they get paid?
why don’t they too have to live on social security when they retire?
CONTINUED BELOW, PLEASE DO NOT ANSWER NOW:
since president bush & teddy kennedy, senator, want another 12,000,000 people working for wages, not salary who don’t generally even speak english to become citizens and take your jobs (they want SKILLED aliens), over our crowded population of 300,000,000, they too should be paid by the HOUR, not by salary, and they too should pay into the social security system, then take social security benefits when they retire.
now the salaries of our congresspeople are 5,000/year. they want 0k or more. all right, 5k is spit (but they won’t suffer when they leave office because they made "connections," therefore, their businesses outside the government will make a fortune), while they are paid such spit while going on free vacations hosted by wealthy supporters of certain candidates. all right, let them vote themselves a raise to 0k, but break that down into hourly pay and deduct taxes exactly like our own wages are taxed now.
let them be paid for the hours on the job. yes? no?
a small edit: i noticed a book on the market that is about how to make our government our own, i.e., how you find out what the reps do and how you stop abuse of our trust placed in them. here’s a link to readers’ comments on the new book called OUTRAGE: http://www.hebookservice.com/products/BookPage.asp?prod_cd=c7067
HAVENONE: you take 0k, break it down to 2,000 hours, and you get .00/hour, gross. you presume one 2-week paid vacation a year. that’s okay, even 3 weeks is fine.
however, know that the reps don’t work from july 4 until the day after labor day (or was it memorial day).
so you cannot base the wage on 2,000 hours per year, or can you?
why?