“There’s just a lot of people in this country that don’t want to work, period,” Rep. Virginia Foxx said during a hearing about people who work too much.
House Republicans held a hearing Wednesday throwing cold water on President Joe Biden’s plan to give more workers overtime protections.
Even though the hearing was about employees who work long hours, the GOP chair of the House Committee on Education & the Workforce took a moment to argue that too many Americans don’t want to work at all.
“There’s just a lot of people in this country that don’t want to work, period … and want other people to take care of them,” said Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.).
Give politicians minimum wage, the worst publicly available healthcare plan, dorm style living, prison food and 40hrs of mandatory office time and no overtime for floor time and they will all start singing a different tune.
They need to really walk in someone else’s shoes so they understand what’s really wrong in America.
Tie their pay to the median income for their district. Give them a direct incentive to increase the quality of life for the people they represent.
They don’t make their money in salary. They make their money in investments, kickbacks, and donations.
Also, start prosecuting trading on insider knowledge on both sides of the aisle.
I mean, we would have to start by making it illegal.
Little column a, little column b. Just cuz they make more money from being a shill doesn’t mean their salary is peanuts. Anyway, as long as we’re gonna crack down on politicians, give them the same rules as athletes in the NCAA: can’t make money off your position or image or else you’re out. Fire anyone who gets money from anything other than their salary or mowing the lawn.
Yes, tie their salary to the median income of their district and tie their insurance to what’s offered in their district. Finally, have them fined student loans and medical bills that match the averages of their district. Same people who say no free lunch? Guess what, pay for all of your own meals, no gifts, no per diem, get our politicians off welfare. Bootstraps and all that.
It’s not that their salary is peanuts, it’s that their salary is peanuts compared to what they make on the side. More than half of them are millionaires, and none of them got that way on a government salary.
I’d clutch my pearls, but I can’t afford any… *Grips bedazzled medical bracelet*
I’d prefer not to add another layer of “you live in a poor area so you don’t get shit” to the pile.
The point is that poor areas would drag down the lawmaker’s salary, so they’d be encouraged to properly support those areas.
Do you think the median wage for the rural part of Alabama could afford a shoebox in Washington DC?
Theres only three ways that would play out
Option 1: Representatives from poorer districts are literally homeless and dressed in rags, what a great look.
Option 2: Said representatives sell their votes to mantain any semblance of a dignified quality of life
Option 3: Only the already wealthy can afford to be in government
Nah, then you’re just gonna have even more people run for office who are independently rich. They’re already loaded so they won’t care about the minimum wages etc you proposed, they can afford what they want.