The only good thing is that they will be paying more taxes soon-thanks to santobama.
weenies following the pied piper to the bank
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/obama-gives-raises-biden/2012/12/28/id/469363
As the nation nears the fiscal cliff, President Barack Obama has ended the pay freeze on federal employees — giving workers, ranging from Vice President Joe Biden to members of Congress and the Supreme Court, a raise.
Obama signed the executive order on Thursday, The Weekly Standard reports. The increases take effect in late March. “The pay raise will generally be about 1/2 of 1 percent," the order says.
Citing recessionary factors and budgetary concerns, Obama instituted the pay freeze in 2010.
Under the new guidelines, for instance, Biden’s salary will jump from $225,521 last year to $231,900 next year.
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Members of Congress, from the House and Senate, also will receive a slight raise — from $174,000 to 174,900.
And the majority and minority leaders in both chambers will see their salaries rise to $194.400.
The salary for the Speaker of the House, currently the Ohio Republican John Boehner, will increase to $224,600.
In addition, the pay for the members of the U.S. Supreme Court also will rise, with Chief Justice John Roberts receiving $223,500, and associate justices being paid $213,900.
Circuit judges, district judges and those of the U.S. Court of International Trade in New York also will see slightly higher pay, The Standard reports.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported last Friday that 114,000 new jobs were created last month,
according to its Establishment Survey of business payrolls that has been emphasized by the Obama Administration. That is pitifully weak, especially for what is supposed to be the fourth year of a recovery (the National Bureau of Economic Research scored the recession as officially over in June, 2009)
As economist John Lott noted at FoxNews.com on October 5, the working age population grew by 206,000 last month. With two-thirds of those working as would be expected during a normal recovery, 138,000 new jobs would have been necessary in September just to keep pace with population growth.
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Shadow Statistics claims U.S. unemployment to be between 20% to 25%, the last time I heard.