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Old 11-21-2010, 08:16 PM
 
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Why does congress make more than our military personnel?


Why are there government employees, getting compensated 5 times more then the men & women, putting their lives on the line for this nation and world freedom?
Why does a ceo make more money than someone who works in the mailroom. I think we should pay politicians more. Maybe we would get better ones.

As for how much military people get paid, I think we should reduce military spending by instituting the draft so that we would not have to pay so much to attract military personnel.
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Old 11-21-2010, 09:21 PM
 
Location: Michigan
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Why does congress make more than our military personnel?
They're more intelligent--at least intelligent enough to get a job where they set their own pay, rather than a job killing other people's enemies for no especially good reason.

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Why are there government employees, getting compensated 5 times more then the men & women, putting their lives on the line for this nation and world freedom?
nation blah blah, freedom blah blah...Congress and the military both contribute about the same thing to anyone's freedom*, which is zero.





*Except, perhaps, Israel's.
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