But the future of the petition proposing to cut the pay of members of Congress to $75,000 a year for three years to cut the national deficit is uncertain, even if it has received 31,579 signatures since it was created on Christmas Day and as of the time this story was posted.
Two days after Christmas, President Barack Obama signed an executive order ending the pay freeze on federal workers, including representatives in the House and senators, effective Jan. 1, 2013 – the same day the U.S. government technically fell over the so-called fiscal cliff because Congress could not reach a legislative solution.
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The national average wage index for 2011 was $42,979.61, so $75.000 is still to much, if they got $50.000 a year they would quit, than we could get real people in those jobs that know what it is like in the real world, that would be real change in washington
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