The Patriot Post® · Lawmakers Don't Make Enough?

While the middle class suffers under the weight of Obamanomics, Rep. Jim Moran (D-VA) is complaining about congressional salaries, which average $174,000 per year. “I think the American people should know that the members of Congress are underpaid,” he said. “I understand that it’s widely felt that they underperform, but the fact is that this is the board of directors for the largest economic entity in the world.” Consequently, “More and more we’re going to see people who are already millionaires coming into Congress,” he asserts, because of demanding family sacrifices that are driving regular folks out of office. So Moran’s solution is to make legislators wealthier? The Founders intended for lawmakers to spent most of their time among the People – not on Capitol Hill where they’re for the most part immune from reality. Meanwhile, Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) had the perfect response: “[T]he notion that you can make $174,000 in this country and be underpaid is laughable. We are better off than 99.9% of the people that we claim to work for, and I would be embarrassed to say that given our job performance and our salary, that we are anything other than grossly overcompensated.”