{"id":34177,"date":"2013-02-15T08:06:49","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T12:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=34177"},"modified":"2013-02-15T08:06:49","modified_gmt":"2013-02-15T12:06:49","slug":"pelosi-a-pay-cut-would-diminish-our-dignity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34177","title":{"rendered":"Pelosi: A pay cut would diminish our dignity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ROS sends a link from <a href=\"http:\/\/mobile.thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/283341-pelosi-congressional-pay-cut-undermines-dignity-of-the-job-\">The Hill<\/a> in which Nancy Pelosi complains to the media that she doesn&#8217;t think Congress should take a pay cut because it would &#8221; diminish the dignity of lawmakers&#8217; jobs&#8221;. Never mind that they have done their primary job &#8211; create a budget for the government &#8211; in more then three years.<\/p>\n<p>Americans across this country have taken pay cuts in this current economical environment, but, then I guess, the royalty in Congress is better than the rest of us.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The comments were made in the context of the looming sequester, which would force across-the-board cuts affecting most federal offices, including Congress. With lawmakers nowhere near a deal to avert those cuts, federal agencies are bracing for ways to absorb them with minimum damage to programs and personnel.<\/p>\n<p>Pelosi, whose husband is a wealthy real-estate developer, was quick to note that a cut in her own pay would be far less significant than that for both staffers and less wealthy members of Congress.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, speaking of staffers, the day before Gabriela Giffords was shot in Tucson, she had introduced a bill to reduce Congressional staffers by 10%. Whatever happened to that? Again, we can&#8217;t inconvenience the Congressional royalty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROS sends a link from The Hill in which Nancy Pelosi complains to the media that &hellip; <a title=\"Pelosi: A pay cut would diminish our dignity\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34177\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pelosi: A pay cut would diminish our dignity<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress-sucks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}