John Braund is a guy from Dorchester. I think he is involved with the tax payers association. (strange he would vote for it.)

It does look like some impropriety since some of the folks getting the pay increase, also signed off on this report.

Seriously, though, I don’t disagree with all the recommendations. I do think our legislators should get a raise, the rest not so much, but as usual, it seems like the Court presents these things without explanation and in a way that makes them appear worse than they are. Kind of like the Bar exam controversy.

It also reminds me of a couple years back when it was suggested during the Bar convention that public defenders and appointed lawyers weren’t making enough at $75 an hour. Of course, I don’t disagree with that…their caseloads are excessive…but that didn’t exactly play very well to the general public. It was embarassing and just more ammunition for folks who believe all lawyers are greedy. It shouldn’t have taken an Einstein to figure out what it would look like in the papers, and the same goes for this. But they don’t care.

Even so, does this thing even have a chance in this economy? Surely if it is considered and passed there will be outrage. Oh, wait…I forgot…this is South Carolina…we’ll just bend over and take it as usual.

You see, for 2 months after the gub’ner fired him, sic(k) willie worked in drag as a stripper at http://www.derrieresclub.com in Myrtle Beach.

He gave discount table dances to truck drivers and elected officials.

Word is that’s where he got the bogus tip a Midland’s elected official has a Strom problem. Either from a drunk truck driver or an elected official. Or, maybe from an elected official’s stooge. Who cares.

You see, sic(k) willie believes anything a truck driver or a political stooge tells him, as long as they stuff cash in his panties.

Now, just try to picture sic(k) willie in a thong or g-string. Yuck.

Why don’t members of the General Assemby have to pay to be in the GA? The conditions are the same…your job allows you to make obscene amounts of money for engaging in dishonarable acts. The more vulgar the act, the more you make.

So it make sense…new members pay 10 grand a year, sub-committe chairmen pay 15, chairman pay 20…

And the lobbyist should have to pay too. $25 grand a year will be a good start.$50,000 if you lobby for healthcare, or tobacco or insurance. $75,000 if you have ever been described as Leatehermans bitch.

Face it…they are all whores, selling thier honor for profit. So why not make them pay?

This is a classic debate. Do we pay legislators (judges, cabinet members, governors) salaries competitive with the private sector? In favor is the argument that if we want better people in government, we should be willing to pay for it. The contra, obviously, is to ask whether we really want people who are in it for the money vs. the public service.

No good answer here. Bottom line: there are plenty of people who would take these jobs at current salary levels. That must be some indication that they are not underpaid.

It’s not our fault that you’re obviously too retarded to figure out how to scroll down or click on a link.

1980 called, dude. It wants YOU back.

Anyway, we would – and did – classify proposed pay raises of 53%, 47%, 41% or 20% as “gargantuan,” particularly when you compare them with the 0.8% growth in the average South Carolinian’s paycheck last year.

-FITSNews

Whatever though.

So get off your ass and let’s have some empirical data on those raises there, sonny.