Obama says every one is going to have to make sacrifices in order to bring the economy around!?

He didn't mean politicians, they will continue to tax and spend as fast as they can. Hold tight on its going to be a long 4 years.

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I agree. Nobody in government should be getting pay raises or bonuses. I know an air traffic controller who just got his yearly bonus. I mean, I like the guy but I was a little miffed since the government has a trillion dollar deficit and the airlines are all on the verge of going out of business.

What is HE going to sacrifice?

Ron Paul voted against every pay raise until they made them automatic and repeatedly introduced bills to do away with the automatic raise. Last year he introduced a bill to have Congress take a pay CUT every year they run a deficit. This year he is cosponsoring a bill to at least do away with the automatic raise THIS YEAR given the economy. THIS YEAR it is getting traction with others, so it may actually go somewhere.

He also refuses to participate in the lucrative pension program and returns a part of his budget to the treasury every year.

I think we should demand more of our reps be true to the fiscal conservatism so many this year are first parroting.

no, only the 5% are getting a tax hike, everyone else is alright, wait, was it 250,000 and up for tax hike, wait, didn't it go down to 200,000, wait, i think it went to 150,000 and less, hold, up i think it went down to 100,000, wait, sorry, nope, it is now 42,000 and up. , broken promises. In the mean time every politician getting 4,200 dollar pay raise. It's not a matter of Barry messing up, it's the fact that he lied promising change, and people drank the kool aid/ flavoraide, and now he's recanting on all his promises. Now more bailouts and more deficit, and higher taxes for all. We should be cutting government spending instead of doing more of it, especially all the crooks pay raise. I've lost all respect for politicians...

He means everybody but the government is going to have to make sacrifices. Just look at how much the government expanded under supposedly anti-big government Republicans, and there's no telling what big-government Democrats will be capable of!

Other people get annual raises, why shouldn't politicians get them too? And "the federal insurance they have plus all the other perks" comes with the job, plenty of private employers offer insurance, retirement, etc.

I wonder what him and his "she-boon" are goin' to do without

we already done that. next question?