Cost of Living Increase
As of October 2008 the federal government tabulated the annual cost of living increase for 2009 for anyone living in the United States. This is saying that the amount of money we have to spend for utilities, living space, food, fuel, and all other necessary monies the average person has to lay out, is 5.8% more than the previous year. Based on that tabulation they increased the funds to Social Security recipients 5.8%.
However, there is another group of people, also living in America, that has tabulated their cost of living increase at 17%. That was the "cost of living" pay raise Congress awarded to themselves. Almost three times the actual cost of living increase the same government had established as fact.
It makes you wonder how the average cost of living for a retiree in Washington DC only went up 5.8% when the average cost of living for a Senator or Representative living in Washington DC went up 17%.
Makes me wonder just when it was our representatives stopped representing us?
However, there is another group of people, also living in America, that has tabulated their cost of living increase at 17%. That was the "cost of living" pay raise Congress awarded to themselves. Almost three times the actual cost of living increase the same government had established as fact.
It makes you wonder how the average cost of living for a retiree in Washington DC only went up 5.8% when the average cost of living for a Senator or Representative living in Washington DC went up 17%.
Makes me wonder just when it was our representatives stopped representing us?
posted by Fish-2 at 6:10 AM
2 Comments:
off with their heads
(The Queen of Hearts)
And they don't contribute to Social Security, either. That's for the unwashed peasantry which just happens to be us.
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