By only .5% You have to look at the white space to see the decimal point. They gave themselves a 5.5% increase two years. I don't think they are going to miss 5 tenths of a percent.
Gov. Deval Patrick today announced that he is trimming legislative salaries -- and his own pay -- by .5 percent under pressure from a growing budget deficit and continuing economic recession.
The pay cut means legislators would see $307 trimmed slashed from their pay and would earn a base salary of $61,133; Patrick's pay would go from $140,535 to $139,833. This is the first salary cut since 1998.
Every two years, the sitting governor must decide whether lawmakers will receive a salary boost -- a measure adopted to take the decision away from legislators themselves. Two years ago, Patrick raised legislative salaries by 5.5 percent.
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That's "one half of one percent". All I know is I'd be doing cartwheels in the street if all I had to take was an $800 cut in recent years. And I sure as hell ain't making six figures.
It's a gesture for the peons. We're all in this together, rubes. And...we care.
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Any change in their pension benefits? You know, as long as they're 'sharing' in our pain ...
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His numbers say the average household income in Massachusetts has dropped .5% in the last two years. I don't know where he's getting is numbers, but he might wanna have the guy who came up with them piss in a cup.
Most people up here that I know are hanging on by their teeth.
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