http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/09/19/out-of-touch-a-gop-lawmaker-whines-about-his-six-figure-salary/
Rep. Phil Gingrey is unhappy with his six-figure Congressional salary.
The remarks came during a closed-door conference meeting, where Republicans were discussing Obamacare exemptions, as the National Review reported:
The Georgia Republican, whose latest personal financial-disclosure forms show his net worth is at least $3 million, had little sympathy for lawmakers and even less for staff.
Capitol Hill aides, he said “may be 33 years old now and not making a lot of money. But in a few years they can just go to K Street [the Washington, D.C., shorthand for becoming a lobbyist] and make $500,000 a year. Meanwhile I’m stuck here making $172,000 a year.”
we should feel the congressman's angst and as real caring by real Americans relieve him of his agony, lets make a date to help him are you free Nov. 4 2014?
they really are the party of stupidity, didn't they learn from Romney there is no backroom, closed door privacy.
Stuck? Making six figures? With a net worth of $3 million? The salary alone is more than triple than median income in America, which comes in at just over $50,000 a year according to the latest Census data.
After complaining about his paltry salary, Gingrey then joined 216 other Republicans in voting to slash food stamps by nearly $40 billion dollars.
This is not the only time the Georgia Republican’s comments have gotten him in trouble. He inspired a round of critics back in January when he defended Rep. Todd Akin’s comments about “legitimate rape.”
“When he said legitimate rape versus non-legitimate rape, I don’t find anything so horrible about that,” Gingrey said. ”But then he went on and said that in a situation of rape, of a legitimate rape, a woman’s body has a way of shutting down so the pregnancy would not occur. He’s partly right on that.”
