Seniors and low income workers

Don't worry about the rising cost of health insurance and prescription drugs, or the high cost of heating and gas prices. The Senate has said they aren't going to take a pay raise next year! Doesn't that make you feel better, knowing they'll be stuck at a measly $162k a year while you decide between your medications and heating the house for another month?

[Arizona Senator Jon] Kyl said the vote to kill next year's pay raise for lawmakers will help them "justify reductions in spending in other programs."

Programs mentioned in the article on the blocks? Health care and other programs to help the poor.

Uh, Jon, denying yourself a raise should not make you feel better about cutting health care and other programs to help those that earn minimum wage and still make 1/5 of what you do. No one's going to think that you guys care because you froze your wages for one year while screwing grandma and grandpa out of health benefits or forced people off food stamps because you guys created the largest deficit in history. Get real.

*UPDATE* Looks like that's the end of that.