Yes, Seriously... They gacve away taxpayer money to aides and yet complain about companies that did the same... I wonder if these bonus's wil be taxed at 90%??? Republicans and Democrats both sides of the aisle..

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Lawmakers Have Long Rewarded Their Aides With Bonuses - WSJ.com

Last year alone, more than 200 House lawmakers, both Republicans and Democrats, awarded bonuses totaling $9.1 million to more than 2,000 staff members, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of office-disbursement forms. The money comes out of taxpayer-funded office budgets, and is surplus cash that would otherwise be forfeited if not spent.

Payments ranged from a few hundred dollars to $14,000. Lawmakers, at their own discretion, gave the money to chiefs of staff, assistants, computer technicians, and more than 100 aides who earned salaries of more than $100,000 a year.

This has gone on for many years. There is no prohibition against handing out excess cash. The lawmakers say it is a nice incentive to get staff to conserve budgets, and it rewards hard work and long hours....

Disbursement forms show that dozens of aides working for the Financial Services Committee got a bonus from panel Chairman Barney Frank. Spokesman Steven Adamske said the Massachusetts Democrat gives bonuses to staffers because "government workers are pretty low paid." He said several aides who got bonuses had worked long hours during 2008 on the government's Troubled Asset Relief Program.

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Obama is a man who could deliver a snap judgment about a Boston police officer who arrested an "obstreperous" Harvard professor-friend, but would warn Americans against "jumping to conclusions" about a mass murderer at Fort Hood who shouted "Allahu Akbar."

Wouldn't it be just as nice of an incentive to have them conserve budgets because it's not their money?

Okay first...$100,000 per year (what you needed to get the bonus) is not "pretty low paid". And b) worked long hours???...waaaa...welcome to the real world. And 3) the article says that this is common practice and has been going on for years. So what did the "long hours" working on TARP have to do with previous bonuses? When does the revolt start? Soon I hope.

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Still sore about the war of northern aggression.

Its amazing the nerve of the these people to rob the americans blind, while making believe they are fighting ot help them.

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Obama is a man who could deliver a snap judgment about a Boston police officer who arrested an "obstreperous" Harvard professor-friend, but would warn Americans against "jumping to conclusions" about a mass murderer at Fort Hood who shouted "Allahu Akbar."

It's almost laughable how they spin this. So if they conserve the budget, they get the extra money, which does not conserve the budget. Or do I just have too many synapses firing to understand?

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"If you think about it, UPS and FedEx are doing just fine," he said. "It's the post office that's always having problems." Barack Obama on government run healthcare. 08/11/2009

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Conservative by the grace of God.

Still sore about the war of northern aggression.

It's amazing the nerve of some Republicans. To have just supported and still defend the systematic looting of their own country for eight long years and now bitch because some people who work hard on their behalf get a Christmas envelope.

Fer Crissakes, this is a turkey at Thanksgiving being given to people from a fund of money they've saved, not several millions as a reward for bankrupting your employer. Even Republicans deserve a little something extra for the Holidays.

Everybody knows that consevatives take pride in being mean bastards, but if you keep having to bring up this picayune bullshit it just emphasizes how Obama is doing nothing big for you to complain about. Get a life.

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saved?? lol...

I love it... THEY SAVED THE MONEY!! so umm they get to keep it!!

I am going to try that with my bosses..

They should be working for $1.00 like the guy from AIG!

Again this is republicans and democrats as I said in the OP... your to biased to even see that and try again to BLAME EVERYTHING ON REPUBLICANS!!

btw democrats were in charge for the last 2 years, you would not know that though since ya know umm its all the republicans fault!

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Obama is a man who could deliver a snap judgment about a Boston police officer who arrested an "obstreperous" Harvard professor-friend, but would warn Americans against "jumping to conclusions" about a mass murderer at Fort Hood who shouted "Allahu Akbar."

Yeh, that's how you get good people, don't pay them.

Typical conservative, they should get paid millions for fucking things up, but government people shouldn't get paid at all.

And Dems were in charge the past two years? Bush was a Democrat?

This is why I'm partisan. If you admit you were even in the country it very rapidly becomes all your fault.

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..... are we (at the risk of being "politically incorrect" [but that's me, all the way home!]) talking about the aides that were molested or the relatively unmolested ones? .... and would ANY of Frank's qualify in the later category? (LOL!)

LS

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So, on average... we're talking $4,550 per person. For the average american, that is one hell of a bonus.

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Obama is a man who could deliver a snap judgment about a Boston police officer who arrested an "obstreperous" Harvard professor-friend, but would warn Americans against "jumping to conclusions" about a mass murderer at Fort Hood who shouted "Allahu Akbar."

Aides make more then the average american... That 4,550 is being taken from Mom and Pop who make Less then 100k to pay the senators Aide a bonus who already makes over 100k before the bonus.

Good idea huh?

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Obama is a man who could deliver a snap judgment about a Boston police officer who arrested an "obstreperous" Harvard professor-friend, but would warn Americans against "jumping to conclusions" about a mass murderer at Fort Hood who shouted "Allahu Akbar."

Those poor, poor under-paid government workers.

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The whole premise of the spin was that they saved money from their budgets and therefore get a bonus. But that doesn't save any money from the budget now does it. This isn't about Bush (please get off that...you sound like Obama) or republicans or democrats specifically. It's about congress and the bunch of moronic assholes we have representing us. And the bottom line...IT'S NOT THEIR MONEY. I didn't get a chrismas envelope last year and my bank made a couple of billion. When it's your money, you are responsible, when it's not, who cares right?

No one mentioned Obama but you.

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"If you think about it, UPS and FedEx are doing just fine," he said. "It's the post office that's always having problems." Barack Obama on government run healthcare. 08/11/2009

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Still sore about the war of northern aggression.

Exactly.
Virtually no one gets that kind of a bonus that are among the "general workforce".

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