It's Your Congress.

Well, at last. At last congress is getting after the over paid, under worked, privileged class. I speak of the Federal workforce. You know, the folks who actually make the government operate. The folks who figure out what it is congress wants and then writes the legislation and covers up all the mistakes the legislators make. And also the ones who implement the laws congress passes. So they're cutting back on salaries, pensions and health care coverages and they're raising contributions to health care insurance, retirement and a bunch more. So what, it's about time, right? As for themselves, they've increased the contribution legislators must pay towards their own pensions, or maybe they weren't paying at all before. Congress is determined to get the cost of government down to manageable levels. They want a pound of flesh from the Federal workforce and by golly, they're willing to give an ounce of their own flesh to prove it. I love the way congress goes about solving problems. Usually it means adding as little comfort to their own lives. Take retirement as an example, they serve a couple of years and they can retire with the sweetest retirement plan you can imagine plus they can then start on the speaking circuit making more than they did as a congressman and then within a couple of years, they can begin to lobby the folks they used to serve with in congress, right in the halls of congress with unlimited access. Remember the movie THE STING? These kind hearted, patriotic, constituent protecting, heroes work about four months a year, actual work in congress, then spend the rest of the time on fully paid for junkets to exotic vacation destinations, mostly in other countries and still collect their paychecks. There's been a lot of talk about class warfare of late, but the real class warfare pits legislators against citizens. Now you may not think it's class warfare, but think about it. We pay them to govern. They pay a federal workforce to do the actual work, out of our pockets. Okay maybe it isn't open warfare, but it sure is stealth warfare. Against our wallets. And guess what? They always win. Yep, heads they win, tails we loose.