What's Good For The Gander Is Good For The Goose
When the 109th Congress adjourned, all I could say was, “Good riddance!� This Congress leaves with a record of accomplishing very little of value. It seems incongruous to give good salaries, extraordinary benefit packages and regular raises to people who spend their time on mundane matters while the important issues remain untouched.
There were 383 bills signed into law by this Congress. Something they apparently considered important was the naming of federal buildings because over 25% of these laws dealt with naming or renaming such buildings.
This Congress also passed an immigration bill to build a 700 mile fence, but the bill did not include funding. Were they simply incompetent when it came to good legislation or was this just an attempt to appear to be accomplishing something while actually doing nothing about the problem?
There are many more examples of inaction and incompetence in this and past Congressional sessions. So why are we paying outrageous retirement packages to these officials? Big profitable corporations are bailing out on their pensions and benefit plans claiming they can no longer afford them. With the deficit our country is carrying maybe we need to borrow that idea and cancel or at least radically reduce the pensions and benefit plans of elected officials. If it is good enough for the corporations, it should be good enough for the government.