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Grant75 Wrote: Oct 02, 2012 5:11 PM

You only take a “pay cut” to serve in Congress if you are a statesman like Dr. Ron Paul. If you are a career politician like Harry Reid you make multi-millions. Paul is the exception, Reid is the average. I have to disagree with Dr. Sowell on this one. I think they should all get the same pay as a Corporal in the Army – with no chance for advancement ... and the same retirement benefits as well. Serving Congress should not be a career move. As it is they do more damage than they do good. It might be better if we selected representatives like serving on jury duty, or in the armed forces. Serve a couple of years and go home. IMHO, they would do a lot less damage.

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Cheap Politicians

Now that the National Football League has apparently learned that it can be costly to hire cheap officials, perhaps the rest of us should learn the same lesson when it comes to government officials, whose bad calls can do a lot more damage.

What do we do when we want a better car, a better home or a better bottle of wine? We pay more for it. We definitely need a lot better crop of public officials. Yet we insist on paying flea market prices for people who will be spending trillions of tax dollars, not to mention making foreign policy that...

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