Sweet Deal for Congress! Will Work Only 8 Days in January, 9 Days in February 2010
Posted By Vicki McClure Davidson on December 3, 2009
Pardon me if I laugh out loud. And then, growl menacingly.
Poor “overworked,” “under-appreciated” members of Congress. I can think of 10.2 percent of Americans who are unemployed who would slap you silly for this travesty of barely working for two months. 17 days???
Actually, that unemployment percentage of 10.2 rises to over 17 percent when you include those who no longer receive unemployment benefits, but still can’t find jobs. I have no idea how many Americans are now underemployed. But your paychecks, paid for full-time “service to the people” work, will just keep rollin’ in… disgusting.
So, Mr. Hoyer and the rest of the House, take your tiny violins playing pity songs somewhere else… Americans aren’t commiserating with you. Should you tighten your belts as millions of us “unwashed masses” have had to do under the command of our spendthrift, jet-setting Dear Leader, maybe then you’ll regain our respect and trust.
Maybe.
From The Hill:
House to work 17 days in first two months of 2010, says Hoyer
The House will work a total of 17 days during January and February of next year, according to the 2010 legislative calendar released Wednesday by the Majority Leader’s office.
Finishing what many veteran Capitol Hill aides described as the busiest legislative year they can remember, the House now appears to be setting itself up for a significant downshift in 2010.
“The 111th Congress has confronted enormous national challenges and been incredibly productive during its first session,” Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said in releasing the 2010 House work schedule. “The House has passed major legislation on a range of critical issues, from strengthening our economy to improving healthcare, increasing access to college, and strengthening our national security.”
House leaders have already indicated that plans for a jobs bill, which they’ve pegged as their highest priority now that the fate of healthcare reform lies in the hands of the Senate, may have to wait until January.
But between Democratic and Republican retreats, House leaders have penciled in only eight working days for the entire month of January. That will be followed by a February composed of only nine full working days.
H/T to Patterico’s Pontifications:
Here’s the complete schedule that includes lots of holidays, 3-day and 4-day workweeks, and October thru December off except for the first week of October.
Can’t wait to see the Senate’s work schedule for the first two months in 2010. It will likely be similar.
How many taxpayer-funded vacations during January and February 2010 will the Obamas take on Air Force One? I’m guessing Hawaii will be one of the stops… they’ve overdone Europe. Australia is nice this time of year.
Elections are in November 2010… informed Americans are itching to vote these elitist, socialist clowns out.
Additional reading:
Gateway Pundit: Obama Unemployment Rate Remains in Double Digits — 10.0% and Dem’s NEW Jobs Plan will Only Cost America $300 Billion and House Republicans Ask Team Obama to Quit Repeating ‘Saved or Created’ Nonsense
VotingFemale Speaks!: CBC Threatens ‘Actions’ against Obama over unemployments; Pelosi claims Socialism’s failures are Bush’s Fault! hahaha and Between 100,000 and 200,000 doctors officially reject ObamaCare and Number of Democrats Falls to Four-Year Low, so says Rasmussen Poll; butt kicking of Socialism mounts
The New Ledger, Big Government: Unpacking the Job Numbers, Roadblocks for Bernanke, and the Future of Mainstream Media
Ace of Spades HQ: Polls: Pollster.com’s Aggregated Average Puts Obama Underwater: Carville’s Democracy Corps Says Conservatives Make Big Gains
Hot Air: Examiner analysis: More than 10% of stimulus jobs are phony and Porkulus job numbers “wildly exaggerated”: Boston Globe?
GayPatriot: Hey, Ma’am, what about the jobs in California?
Mike Flynn, Big Government: Obama Stimulus Numbers: The Return of Enron-Style Accounting
Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC), Big Government: Mr. President, Where Are the Jobs?
The New Ledger, Big Government: Economy in the Lurch: Negative Interest Rates, the Fed Audit, and Geithner in the Dock and Do the Democrats Have Any Solutions on Jobs? Anything at All?
Frugal Café Blog Zone: Eye-Rolling Time… Obama Now Claims He “Created or Saved One Million Jobs” (video) and Obama’s Disintegrating Economy: Worst Unemployment, at 10.2%, Since 1983… Obama Takes a Mini-Vacation, Still Hasn’t Gone to Fort Hood (video) UPDATE: He Has Gone to Ft. Hood, Finally and Illegal Immigration from Mexico Slowing, Has Dramatically Dropped Because of America’s Plunging Economy and Please Send in Clowns to Replace Obama Morons: Pay Increases Were Counted as Recovery Program’s “Jobs Saved” and Exaggeration Proclamation: Obama’s Economic Plan Overstated, by Thousands, Jobs Claimed Were Created
Ace of Spades HQ: Reid: I’m So Totally Stoked My Health Care Reform Bill Will “Save” $127 Billion Over Ten Years, Which Is Less than October’s One Month Deficit
Outside the Beltway: Congress to Investigate Fake Districts
Jumping in Pools: Obama Approval Under 50% According to Quinnipiac, Fox News, Rasmussen, and Gallup Polls
Michelle Malkin: The Stimulus Jobs Inflation Map and The Stimulus Jobs Inflation Index
Tai-Chi Policy: Just How Bad Is The Democrat’s Spending?
Doug O’Brien, Big Government: More Stimulus Math: Cooking the Books on Stimulus Jobs
The Powers That Be: Unemployment Stimulated Again
The American Pundit: Pork-Loving Senators Diverted Billions in Funds from Troops
Dick Morris, Big Government: New Health Care Deal: They’re On The Run!
Motor City Times: Obama ‘Plans To Spend’ Our Way Out Of Recession
The Lonely Conservative: $2.6 Billion Cut From Defense to Fund Pork
Nice Deb: Obama Worried That Debt May Lead To Double-Dip Recession
Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion: Stimulus Creating “Full-Time Job Equivalents”
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If you add it up, they work, on average between 2/3rds and 3/4qtrs of the time they spend in Washington.
That’s maybe 9 months a year.
Your tax dollars enable them, to visit Washington parties.
Your tax dollars enable them to fly anywhere they want to for any reason.
Your tax dollars allow them to stand in front of you and tell you that you are stupid and you have no idea of what you are talking about.
Barney Frank told a constituent in a town hall meeting that talking to you is like taking to a coffee table.
Arrogance Anybody ?
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