Bankruptcies soaring, unemployment at its highest level in years, bailouts everywhere (we've now spent more on all this than we did on every war we've ever had, combined), debt out of control, and an estimated Trillion Dollar Budget (the first ever) for next year, and so
Congress Gives Themselves a Raise... ofor all that hard work they've been doing to set up the bubbles, blow them up, then when they burst to act heavyhanded on industry and the private sector as if they had no role in any of the mess, lol. Remember how they chided AIG for having that luxury retreat just a week or two after getting their bailout money? So Uncle Sam is ripping the pockets out of we the taxpayers' jeans and while they're at it they give themselves a raise? And they wonder why people hate politicians? Why this Congress of the past couple years is the lowest rated on record? Duh.