vote yourself a pay raise!

Augh. This is so stupid. Everyone whines about the deficit and the tax cut, but they REFUSE to spend less money. Congress, along with a million other government workers, are in line for a 4.1 percent pay raise next year. This will be the FOURTH straight year, right through the middle of the depression and dot com crash, that legislators have given pay raises to themselves and our oversized, incompetent government workers. I don't know about you guys, but I haven't been getting pay raises.

You know why I haven't gotten pay raises? Because my company can't SPEND MORE THAN IT MAKES. I can't believe that we still haven't passed a constitutional amendment requiring that we balance our budget. If we pull in less money as a country, we HAVE to spend less. Is this really that crazy of an idea?
Does it make sense to no one but me?

http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/09/04/congress.payraise.ap/index.html