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- david76, on 10/12/2007, -7/+182"Keeping us up here eats away at families," said Rep. Jack Kingston (R-Ga.), who typically flies home on Thursdays and returns to Washington on Tuesdays. "Marriages suffer. The Democrats could care less about families -- that's what this says."
What a schmuck. If he didn't want to do the job, he shouldn't have run for the office. All jobs require sacrifice. - noodlez, on 10/12/2007, -10/+169rarely is the question asked: is our congressmen working?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -32/+190Republicans are old ... they need their time off to golf and spend all that money they have (oh and fondle little boys),
- flernk, on 10/12/2007, -4/+84A 3 day work week with an annual raise? Sign me up!
- nahsrocketeer75, on 10/12/2007, -7/+78Here's the funniest quote: "Keeping us up here eats away at families," said Rep. Jack Kingston (R-Ga.), who typically flies home on Thursdays and returns to Washington on Tuesdays. "Marriages suffer. The Democrats could care less about families -- that's what this says." ... Sounds like it's straight out of The Onion, not the WaPo.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+65It's not like the rest of America works 5 days a week or something...
- randomgeek, on 10/12/2007, -6/+68Be sure to let Jack know just how upset you are that he has to work 5 days a week. ;)
Jack.Kingston@mail.house.gov - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -24/+82Whaaaaaaaa!?
- cameron074, on 10/12/2007, -9/+59since when is what they do considered work?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+51Here's a template letter if you want to write this guy (Jack.Kingston@mail.house.gov)
I can't believe those _evil_ Democrats are making you, Jack Kingston,
work for the same amount of time as the people who elected you to
represent them. It's like you have no vacation time...
Except for the two-week spring break, month off in August, or the two
months after elections. Our taxes pay you to work, like the rest of
America, not to sit on your lazy ass, or go golfing.
All jobs require sacrifices. If you can't handle them, there's always
resignation. - DoctaStooge, on 10/12/2007, -3/+43Tell this to my dad who for the last 4 yrs, commuted to Mass. to work. He left our home in NJ at 5 am on Monday and usually wasn't home till 8-9pm on Fridays. This doesn't count business trips he has had to make in the past also. He does have the ability to telecommute, but usually CAN'T since he needs to be at his office. He also spent a lot of time during the weekends and vacation on the phone even though its supposed to be his time off. He is also president for Little League and Soccer for our town. I don't see politicians putting those types of hours in.
Edit:
Like david76 said, these people chose their jobs, so they have no right to complain. - Konrad9, on 10/12/2007, -2/+37JACK KINGSTON'S BLOG:
http://kingston.house.gov/Blog/
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Washington Office:
2242 Rayburn HOB
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: (202) 225-5831
Savannah Office:
1 Diamond Causeway, Suite 7
Savannah, GA 31406
Phone: (912) 352-0101 - crawfishsoul, on 10/12/2007, -3/+39To put this in perspective, let's break it down a bit.
Article states a requirement of 6:30pm to 2:00pm. Let's say they don't sleep and work that entire time.
Hours per week = 91.5
Hours per year = 4758
Salary = $165,200
That's $34.72 per hour or $72,218.58 for a 40 hour week (2080 working hours per year)
So let's say they work 10 hour days. And by work, I mean what you or I consider actual work that our employer's/clients would pay us for.
50 hours * 52 working weeks :P = 2600 hours
$165,200 / 2600 = $63.53 per hour
Now let's throw in lobbyist kickbacks...
Anybody shedding a tear over this article? - cr125er, on 10/12/2007, -2/+37Cry me a ***** river jackoffs. The people who elected you work 5 days a week for less than a quarter of what you ***** make. I am sick and tired of you whiney ***** in government pissing and moaning and generally acting like children.
- leobaby, on 10/12/2007, -0/+34Wow, only having to work one job; three days a week at that. Many of us work two jobs six days a week just to get by.
I say to the complainers - Welcome to America. - leobaby, on 10/12/2007, -0/+33"when are they supposed to meet with their actual constituents?"
when congress isn't in session. - flernk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+31My letter went a little something... a-like this...
To: Jack.Kingston@mail.house.gov
I saw your comments regarding the planned 5 day work week in the Washington Post. I am not one of your constituents, but I am an America and would like to address you as a representative of my government.
Mr. Kingston, you work for ME. By virtue of the Constitution, you are my employee. I have let you slide by for years on a short work week. I have tolerated unnecessarily long vacation time during the year. I have even (barely) tolerated your "perks" from other sources despite the extremely high salary I pay you. Everyone else works 5 days a week, sometimes at multiple jobs, and usually for much less than you make. I do not want to hear you complain about working like an average American and I certainly don't need the inter-office back talk blaming someone else for your longer hours. Take responsibility for your job, Jack. Most families in this country need two jobs to sustain their children and too many are getting by with only one parent in the home. Count your lucky stars I let you work here.
The fact that you're now complaining about living like an average American proves that you need the extra hours you'll be working. I'm serious Jack, if you keep up this attitude, I will have no choice but to let you go.
Board of Directors - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+34Boo freakin hoo.
- djSyndrome, on 10/12/2007, -2/+31Not true at all. Bush works hard 24/7 at ***** up America. He's always on the job.
- DoctaStooge, on 10/12/2007, -0/+29When do they meet with their actual constituents anyway? At least in NJ, I never see or hear anything about our reps wanting to meet with us.
- edrift101, on 10/12/2007, -3/+30These are the same @$$holes that voted down a minimum wage increase for folks that are working 6-7 days a week at 2 or more jobs... sigh...
- TrentTheThief, on 10/12/2007, -4/+28Gee, isn't that too freaking bad. Cheesy bastards. Fire them all.
- LoungeActx, on 10/12/2007, -3/+27Someone has to tell them "Welcome to the real world."
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+26lol wow give me their salary and I will work full-time everyday of the week. AND overtime!!
- Netmindstorm, on 10/12/2007, -2/+26Of course it does - and sending troops to Iraq for 12-month deployments doesn't [affect marriages]. And that assumes they make it back safely and in one piece (mentally and physically) . . .I don't know what his voting record is, but if he supported deployment of troops to Iraq then he is a hypocrite or most likely just a lazy "fat cat" [outright assumption, maybe he's not] who might have to do some work for a change. Give him the option to work 5 days a week in DC or 12 months in Iraq and see which one he chooses.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+25How amusing. Just a couple of weeks ago, the line was "Those Democrats are lazy and ineffectual and should never have been elected". Now it's "Those Democrats are so anti-family, they want us to work FIVE whole days--per week! Damn their anti-family agenda!"
- Zreitan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+22This is the 21st ***** century. anyone of them could spend a few grand and easily setup some way of keeping in constent touch with the state. video phones, e-mail, black berrys, there are a million ways to keep up to date..they are just to stupid to realize the technology that's at their finger tips.
- khag7, on 10/12/2007, -2/+20Yeah i just wrote an email to that guy and told him to stop being a prick and do his job. he's paid to represent americans who work on average more than a 40 hour week
- JimXugle, on 10/12/2007, -2/+20Gah... I'm typically conservative (and yet that term is starting to loose it's meaning now) and I agree... If you don't want the job, resign. The rest of america has to work for 5 days a week (many times, its more than that) so you do to.
Suck it up.
-jX
PS... no, you can't have a pay raise for the extra _2_ Days that you're working per week.
PPS - Saying all republicans fondle boys is like saying that all democrats have sexual relations with that woman. - Jawoodyablowme, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18For me to make $165,000+ a year, I WOULD HAVE TO WORK 7 DAYS A WEEK, 18 hour days, 365 days a year.
Those ***** have it easy! Don't make excuses for them! - oxyrubber, on 10/12/2007, -2/+19So when you compare the 40 or so hours of "work" they do a week to the 40+ hours of work the average working man (or woman) does, it makes you want to slap some sense into them.
They are running one of the most complicated beurocracies in the world (and making huge bank from lobbyest kickbacks) and they have the nerve to complain? Most Congresspersons don't even show up for votes unless they care about the outcome (i.e. they are getting paid to vote for that particular bill). - Jawoodyablowme, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17"A 3 day work week with an annual raise? Sign me up!"
You forgot the biggest insult: "The current salary for rank-and-file members of the House and Senate is $165,200 per year. "
Source:
http://usgovinfo.about.com/library/weekly/aa031200a.htm
The thing that really irks me too is that they'll say that they're required by law to have a residence in DC,as well as their home state, and they are "required" to pay for other out of pocket expenses.
Here's my response: Well, if those legal requirements are such a 'hardship', then just repeal the law. You are the Legislature. What's so hard about that?
They NEVER will. You know why? Because those legal requirements benefit them. Period. It puts money in their pockets at the taxpayer's expense.
AND, I guarantee you, even with the fiscal mess there and all of the Pork Barrel spending (ripping us all off), they WILL give themselves a raise. - TootsMutant, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15Our tax dollars at rest.
Or, as Mark Twain said, "Thank god we don't get all the government we pay for." - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15SamL: You have a very idealistic view of our government. Unfortunately for all of us, it's not reality.
In fact, most of the congressmen's time outside of Washington is used either to raise money for their party and their political friends, or to organize their own re-election campaigns (they spend 50% of their time in office working on ways to be re-elected, the bi-product of having a two-year term).
I would say that it is pretty much guaranteed that congressmen do less actual "work" than your average manager in the private sector. Most of their actual work (like reading and writing the bills they vote for) are done by their numerous aides anyway. Why else do you think they have so much time to appear on television talk-shows, pose for photo-ops, and write self-righteous books about how the other party is destroying America? If you're currently employed, when was the last time YOU had the time to do as much extra-curricular activities?
The fact that we don't EXPECT them to work as much as people in the private sector is disheartening and depressing. Just because they're wealthy and powerful does not mean that they should put in less effort into their job than the regular Joe. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16Jack Kingston can eat my balls.
I live in his district. I'm voting him out next go-around. - WarpFox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13what about the rest of us that work 5 OR MORE days a week?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13"That really grinds my gears..."
- waxoff, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Why do I have this image in my head of Dr. Evil & crew singing "Its a Hard Knock Life" on the steps of the Capitol Building?
- crawfishsoul, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Current salary as of January 1, 2006 is $165,200 sourced from www.senate.gov
http://www.senate.gov/reference/resources/pdf/97-1011.pdf - LoungeActx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11@Gryffydd
I'd say $150,000 a year isn't too shabby...plus...they can vote themselves raises... - ninesquaredis81, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11It sounds to me like the only day that he devotes entirely to working (i.e. not family or travel) is Wednesday. Wow, for me Wednesday is the middle of the week. For him it *is* the week.
- NSMike, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Democrat or Republican, I don't care which party the complainers are from, they all need to shut the ***** up and do some work.
When you do less work than another congress that earned themselves the title of the "Do-Nothing Congress," I think a little more time at work would do the people you represent some good. - Heiios, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12Oh Im sorry, I thought when you volunteered for the job you knew what the work would entail? Mabye if you weren't all greedy corrupt puppets of corporate America we would care a little bit....
- skulljar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Any congressmen who complain about these hours should immediately be sent on deployment to Iraq/Afghanistan for 7 months straight, or 13 months with a 2 week break in the middle. And they can't take anything other than gov't issued gear. Ok, ok, we'll give their families 2 weeks notice, then send 'em.
- GTMopo3, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10working 4 tens are way better that 5 eights
- blahblah, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9"when are they supposed to meet with their actual constituents?"
Actually, all of the lobbyists are in DC, so it's not a problem for them. - iheartspyware, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Maybe if we offer them more congressional paiges....
- Jagdhund, on 10/12/2007, -6/+13What an ass. Can't we get someone other than a complete asshat to run for the big parties? Why don't we have electoral primaries in these smaller races?
- Walt65, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9You want me to work...
Nobody told me about this work ***** when I ran for office, and damb digg is slow today.
Get back to work your boss is coming. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Most have (large expensive) houses in both places...
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