link I'm sure there are some federal employees that deserve a raise, but not any of the elected officials.
After the big deal in the 1980's with Congress voting for their own pay raise, they tied their pay to Federal workers, so if Fed pay is frozen, so is Congress. If Fed goes up .05%, so does the pay for Congress.
Of course everyone is going to focus on the few hundred Congressmen getting a bump to their already handsome salary, but the overwhelming majority of this is going to people making chump change.
Other than some knee-jerk resentment of authority, how exactly do you determine how much they deserve and when or whether or not they get a raise? Absent a recession or specific corporate initiative, most salaried professionals get raises and bonuses every year; and outside of sales, legal counsel or design most of them perform largely administrative tasks. How much would you have paid John Sherman or Everett Dirksen?
