Pay-per-vote may be the only way to get congress to work

The 112th congress was the least unproductive in recorded history, passing only 219 bills.

Tying productivity to pay is at the heart of capitalism. So why not apply the same rules to congress with a pay-per-vote incentive plan?

With lawmakers acting as verbal supporters of capitalism, is there a reason to pay them for not being productive workers?

Pay-per-vote really is a simple concept that most American understand. If you don’t work, you don’t get paid. If nothing else, it would send the message to a do-nothing congress, that laziness and free-money handouts from taxpayers will not be part of the budget or added to the deficit.

However, the incentive for do-nothing congressional pay-moochers must go a step further.
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Lame Duck Democrats cave on defense of middle class

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People who vote for democrats expect them to act like democrats. That means they stand up for the middle class and protect the programs that help the middle class. After winning control of the House of Representatives in the 2010 midterm elections, the republicans took their victory as a mandate from voters to fight any democrat who dared to act like a democrat defending the middle class.

In the midst of what continues to be what economists have dubbed the Second Great Depression, the GOP is doing what they do best, which is to fight for the wealthy and special interest groups that funded their campaigns, and defeat democrats who try to protect the middle class.

On their path to waging their war on the democrats, the republicans have stated clearly that they want a balanced budget. However, here is where blatant hypocrisy walks in. The GOP insists that the Bush tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires be exempt from their budget balancing efforts, although none of them have actually validated justification for spending borrowed money and tax breaks for the people with the most money – including themselves.

“In this time of emergency, President Obama needs to add a word to his working vocabulary: sacrifice. Sacrifice is an important American tradition that embraces the virtues of patriotism, puts national interest ahead of self-interest, and encourages everyone to share the burden in perilous times,” according to the Huffington Post.

Lame Duck democrats need to act like democrats and expose the republican schemes of hypocrisy for what they really are; a double standard that works better for special interests than it does for the electorate.