Congress is Still Getting Paid While Rank and File is Not, and Vice President is Traveling to Middle East While Government is Out of Money: This Isn’t Right

I see that Congress is still getting paid during the shutdown, while everybody down the federal food chain is not.   Major irritant….

Before the next government shutdown, Congress needs to pass a law that says that government shutdown policies also apply to Congress and the President.  Perhaps then they’ll keep this from happening again.  And they shouldn’t be allowed to override the law either once they cross the point of no return.   

Congress getting paid while everyone else does not isn’t right.  They helped to cause this mess, so they should be up to their eyeballs in the stew too.

The other thing that’s annoying me is that the Vice-President is going to the Middle East while the government is out of money.  It costs roughly $206,337 an hour to operate Air Force 2.  How is Air Force 2 to be refueled?   Full faith and credit?  Prepaid fuel?   Do they have a gas card for  Air Force 2?  What?  This trip should be rescheduled, as embarrassing a step as that is.  

Until the upper echelons of the federal government join the others in not getting paid, I don’t want to hear a single word of who’s to blame.   It doesn’t mean a thing.  They’re all responsible for failing to pass a budget that reduces the $20 trillion debt.