Sequestration Oppression: Poor Wasserman Shultz staffers can’t afford “a decent meal”

According to Democrat congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, her staffers can no longer afford a “good meal” on Capitol Hill because of the impact of the sequester cuts. However, after you find out how much DWS’s staffers make, you’ll be wondering what in the heck it is they eat on Capitol Hill…diamonds?
Wasserman Schultz staffers earn two to three times as much as the average American taxpayer. In fact, her highest paid staffer makes $160k a year. Two other aides pull in $120k a year, and five others earn between $60-100k a year.

“If you’re making $160,000, you can’t afford a meal of $7 chicken, mashed potatoes and asparagus,” Glenn joked. “She said she worried about the price of meals in the restaurants getting so high that her aids are being priced out of a good meal.”

Poor, poor Wasserman Shultz staffers can’t afford pricey Capitol Hill meals on the taxpayer’s dime.

Well, if it were actually true, they’d at least know how the average American feels. Not to mention that most taxpaying, hardworking Americans probably weren’t to thrilled to hear that they were paying for that to begin with, much less listen to DWS whine about it.

“If I may — this is going to stun you — if you’re making $160,000 and you are forced to buy a $7 a meal…and had that for every single meal the entire year, and you made $160,000 you would have to live on $150,335 a year,” Stu pointed out.

Of course that’s before taxes…but Debbie Wasserman Shultz was all for the tax increases, so that shouldn’t be a problem.

  • Draxx

    I wish things were so bad that I could afford to pay my employees $60,000-$160,000 year with Extensive Benefits like Gov’t Employees Get!!!  Unforturnately things are sooooo good that they only get paid when we complete projects and/or individual items… and because things are soooo great for us that we are NOT making nearly what DWS people are!!!  Eventually when our products are completely developed it might be different, but since we are a fledgeling business it is still very, very rough…

  • Draxx

    My question is…

    How many American Tax Payers Need To Pay Taxes To Cover Just One Of Her Aids, let alone all of them and her wages too?  And if you ask me, she is Paid Way Too Much For The Crappy Job That She Does (only Gov’t Workers can do such a lousy job at work and still get paid ridiculous amounts of money)!

  • http://www.artinphoenix.com/gallery/grimm snowleopard (cat folk gallery)

    Debbie Shultz has shown once again how out of touch the Democrats are with the real world; the politicians fear having to make cuts to their own budgets and thus lose more power and control that they have gained.

    Insanity at its finest, the nation burns while the leaders of DC fiddle and dance and party as if nothing is going on because they do not want to acknowledge reality.

  • http://www.artinphoenix.com/gallery/grimm snowleopard (cat folk gallery)

    Bottom line of Shultz and the DC Political order, too many of them from the top on down have assumed for too long only they and their needs matter in the end. They have lost touch with reality and need to be removed from office and shoved in a padded room.

  • http://www.artinphoenix.com/gallery/grimm snowleopard (cat folk gallery)

    Any member of Congress and their aides and such should make no more than the newest recruit of the armed services and have the same health plans.

  • http://youtu.be/0iRCvDwF26Q Sam Fisher

    Poor Debbie Wasserman Schultz she had to go from eating lobster and wine with solid gold chunks every day to just lobster and wine oh the horror! I think her pay should drop to 30,000 a year just to see how out of touch she sounds. They want the rich to pay their fair share but God forbid if they get a pay cut and still make more than the rest of the country. Liberal elitism at its sadist.

  • Draxx

    Personally I feel that ALL Gov’t Workers should also be Guards Members, so if they start a war they are the First to go Fight the War they started.  Only if they have already served in the Military should they be exempt!  And like you said they should only get paid Modest Wages, since they are supposedly only in it for the selfless good of the public!!!

    One of the things I have always thought should be done is a Requirement that to be Elgible to be the President, they should have served a minimum of six years in the Military.  They should have to risk their lives for the common man/woman before they can Lead them…  Also, this way they would understand personally the consequences of war on the Soldiers that Fight the Wars, and thus reduce the waste of human lives!

  • Anonymous

    I am trowing up after reading the comments of Queen Wasserman Schultz claiming her staffers can not purchasing a dissent meal.You disgusting Democratic Liberals,I am 80 years and live on social security want to have dinner with me. yaach

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_BGC7U7QUFEWSSV3H4IFHLAFK54 mudslide

    Democrats need to be banned as assault politicians.

    Just pathetic. 

  • Anonymous

    Oh boo hoo, Ms. Schultz.  When I lost my job last November I cut back immediately on all non-essentials.  I didn’t have the luxury of stealing someone else’s earnings or running up a future generation’s tab.  NOR WOULD I DO SO EVEN IF I COULD!!!  Some of us still have pride and self respect.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000069807015 Julia Thompson

    Can you please…..please…have someone proofread your copy before it goes online?  It is “aides”….not “aids.”

    Thank you.

  • http://www.facebook.com/tom.rasey.12 Tom Rasey

    She ought to try it on my wages at $ 10 + per hour!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_HF6WLEGWIY4S3RB2WNSQIO63UA V

    Oh what a shame.  Welcome to the party, you suckhole libtard hack

  • Anonymous

    Welcome to the world of your creation honey. I think you should split your paycheck in half and then divide the other half among your staffers.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_BGC7U7QUFEWSSV3H4IFHLAFK54 mudslide

     ’redistribution’ – right?

  • Anonymous

    I know…..it’s getting really bad.

  • Anonymous

    That is their desire, no? Let them start with their own money!

  • MarsBarsTru7

    She specializes in redistribution. How is the government supposed to function if people like DWS aren’t paid and fed good enough to choose a job in government over a job in the *gasp* private sector *shudder*? No one *competent* enough to take money from group A and give it to group B while skimming off the top would be left to work in government.

    Don’t you dare attempt to diminish their value. These people provide essential functions within the fascist system.

  • Anonymous

    DWS jumps the sequestration shark.

  • Anonymous

    We toured the Capitol last year and were allowed to eat in the employee cafeteria. My wife got a lobster roll sandwich that had something like 1/2 pound of fresh daily (flown in lobster) a large drink and a salad for about $11.00 or so. I am sure the staffers will suffer greatly if they receive a small cut in pay…Which by the way will never happen. The Senate and House have created an elite social status for themselves complete with voting for heir own raises. Do you think they will be on the government mandated “Health Plan” ?  Not a chance, they are “special”, a privileged elite class with their own special plan! The founding fathers would never believe what has happened to the system they so carefully put together. I am si9ck of it all!

  • Anonymous

    That is how much out of step Washington is with reality. And to think that it’s mostly people who make way less pay for this nonsense! Where is the outrage, people? Was the country set up for this kind of corruption? Washington is a massive cesspool of degenerates, who don’t represent their people, they only represent their system of Washington rule. 

  • Bill Dunn

    Bring a sandwich!!!

  • crazy betty

    thieves.

  • Anonymous

    Entitled, entitled, entitled.  These oafs simply do not know how to live within their means. and their means are much better than mine.  I take home about $35K per year, save much in my 401K. have all the deductions, taxes, health care, etc.  Have no debts, own my home and am still working full time at 71.  Oh woe is me. how do I do it?????? What a bunch of idiots.

  • Anonymous

    Wow!…Wow…Wow!…What can I say? Wow!  I make $13668.00 a year out of that I pay for my rent, auto insurance. utilitilities, gas, food, incidentals, etc. I would be happy to shine the shoes for Ms .WS aides for $500.00 ea per month (utt). Just call me.

  • Anonymous

    Anyone ever heard of a sack lunch?  Also any lunch away from the Capitol would be a lot more… all this is just one big fraud.  All planned to get to the people…”make it hurt” is their motto. 

    Back in 1981, right after Reagan was inaugurated, he made a 10% cut across the board for all government agencies and also a freeze on all hiring.  Each agency was given the flexibility to make their own cuts.  But this president?  Oh no, it’s all about let’s get even with the Republicans for going against him.  If truth be known, I believe he actually wanted the sequester so this very thing would happen.  He is a very devious man… he and his minions have an agenda to take this country down and bring it under the New World Order.  Watch and see, his actions speak volumes…

  • http://www.absoluteintensity.com dennis reilly

    can you imagine if she had to sweat for a living

  • J Nelson

    BOO F-ing HOOO HOOO HOOO HOOOOO HOOOOOOO!
    They can come to my house. We’ve got Mac n Cheese because my 100k a year job got cut thanks to Obummer’s Anti- North Jonah Fields Drilling and S.W. Wyoming Oil and Natural Gas exploration and production sentiment. I’m F-ing FED UP WITH ALL OF THEIR WUSS PUSS BITCHY WINING AND COMPLAINING! FIND SOMEONE WHO CARES, YOU WORTHLESS POS’s!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Robert-Bare/100001956915932 Robert Bare

    Actually, the solution is clear. Let them eat the fodder Moochele Obama would like to foist on school lunch programs. Hey if it’s good for kids, it’s good for them right?

  • http://twitter.com/mjojonell Michael J Nellett

    Congress members, their staffs, and federal workers should NOT be able to make more than the average working American earns. If you offer the argument of the complicated issues these people have to deal with…spare me. How many congresspeople actually write their own legislation? We know from Obama care, that most politicians don’t even read what they’re voting on. Washington is corrupt, overpaid, and severely underworked, in other words DWS, I don’t feel one bit sorry for what your aides are making. As another infamous queen once said…let them eat cake!

  • Alyssa Christopher

    Nora. I agree that Francisco`s rep0rt is something… yesterday I got a brand new Toyota after having made $5410 this past 4 weeks and would you believe, ten k lass-month. without a doubt it is the coolest job Ive ever done. I began this seven months/ago and straight away got minimum $79.. per-hour. I use this website. http://www.GoogleProjectsGetPosition.qr.net/kgsp

  • mdkrause

    She is an insult to all women. You can’t be this stupid can you. I guess you would have to ask Obama.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jason-Young/100000391441118 Jason Young

    Debs ‘Was-a-Man’ Schlitzenheimer say her $100K a year aides can’t afford food on their pay?  They should shop where I do.  I make my Veteran’s Disability check feed my family and I pay tithes and give to the poor as well.  What the hell are those elitist liberal progressives eating?  I eat steak once a month, as a sort of bonus I pay myself for surviving what the VA puts me through, and I still pay all of my debts.  They must be shopping at the same places that Moochelle’s shoppers patronize, or do they wait for the imperial taster to show up first, sucking down lattes and $50 arrugala sandwiches?

  • Anonymous

    They should hook up with the Bidens.  They just spent a cool mill in 2 days.  When are they going to listen to us?  THIS IS OUR MONEY.  

  • Anonymous

    It Will Not Be Public Service Unless It Is A Volunteer Job! Public Service Is Serving The Public They Should Have To Have Jobs And Volunteer In Washington For The Good Of The Country! Call The Parties Liberal and Conservative Not Dem And Repub, So We Know Where They Stand! oh how they can’t make it on their three houses and five cars but minimum wagers can survive..yeah right..boohoo

  • Anonymous

    Perhaps a “good meal” costs more than a $300 toilet seat.

  • Anonymous

    These people, particularly democrats, are so out of touch with Americans, it is pathetic. The only thing we can do is dis-elect them and too many ill-informed idiots keep voting them back in office. I Keep thinking, if only they knew. But then again, maybe they do. We are doomed.

  • Anonymous

    Since the Obamacare taxes started being collected in January, my weekly pay is about $100 less than it was last year, and that is even with a 3% raise. Ms Schultz, her staff and the rest of the pirates and thieves in Congress need to be sent back to the real world to see just how hard it is for the people their acts and laws are hurting. And I doubt that they would find a meal anywhere in a public restaurant or cafeteria that would be as cheap as the ones in their subsidized dining room.

  • Anonymous

    I would just add that they should also be required to work for wages or run their own business for at least 6 years to be elegible to run.

  • http://twitter.com/Snuffy_Joe Joe Snuffy

    Debbie still holds the LPM (lies per minute) record in Congress. If her $100K/Yr staffers can’t feed themselves on that salary, they need to stop frifelous spending and determine what their real NEEDS are instead of what their WANTS are. 

    Any questions

  • http://twitter.com/REE758 JOHN

    None of us have had a decent meal since the Dems took congress in 2006  and shut down anwr sending gas prices skyrocketing.Barrock and hillary aiding Soros in the take down of America

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Nancy-Cook/1044146963 Nancy Cook

    First world problems, gone amock!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_7ER2MO3UZFFZOVB3KXXTTVPQLU Dale

    I think Wasserman ought to take them all out to dinner every night. That would stop their hunger problems!! LOL

  • Anonymous

    And another note: Required to share in osamacare like the rest of us!

  • Snorri

    Ms. Schultz’s staffers could apply for food stamps. Also, there are Soup Kitchens open to all despite political affiliations. And of course, Ms. Schultz and staffers could do like the rest of us and cut back to essentials. May I suggest Obama Soup three times a week. I.E: that’s Ramen noodles with a cup of elbow macaroni added; cooked in twice the amount of water with one hot dog diced into the mix. However, since Obama Care objects to hot dogs, perhaps waving the hot dog over the mix, (or a picture of a hot dog), would suffice. Save the renting of clothes and the gnashing of teeth Ms. Schultz, the sequester could be followed by no agreement on the debt limit.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/Z36JXZMELY7KUBVLXALOMCE3GI m

    Lady, you sure are showing your ignorance to think that the American public buys your bull shit.  We live in the trenches…we know what it is to save and to make ends meet.  Lady, you are an embarrassment to this country…a real gem of an embarrassment!

  • Anonymous

    Apply for food stamps and let us know how that turns out for them! Or give them some of your over bloated salary Schultz. What a twit! Shows just how disconected DC is from reality…

  • Anonymous

    some of us would love to make the money your aids are making , alot of americans dont even make half that amount. i ought to know im one over the underemployed. but do i whine no i just keep trying and hoping that something will happen and ill  make more one of these days.  plus the deal on the gas so called tax, heck i pay that on a local and state level and now the feds wanna taxme so they can have more money to blow for raises next year for them. but wink wink its for the roads. so far as  washington dc roads  i dont care i dont need to pay for your roads thats what you got that man for and all his cronies.

  • http://www.facebook.com/paul.redman.940 Paul Redman

    She really is disgusting. In every way- I can’t stomach looking at her. Can’t stand hearing that amphibian voice. Forget the politics. I can’t get past the packaging. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_EAYZWQTCX2RGIUZVGMAU6Y47T4 Whosit

    Do people like Debbie Wasserman Schultz even know what’s going on in the real world?  She’s been in Washington waaaaaay too long.  

  • Anonymous

    Debbie WasserSNOT is a moron, in other words, a typical leftist.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/SVSTXZYDSOIPYTTPRQ6RLXEJPA PATRIOT2010

     Hey Deb;   Let them EAT CAKE!!!!!      Ms Schultz why are our troops not getting feed???????

       You are a bunch of spoiled little children, bring a dam brown bag lunch like the 99% of the people that are luck enough to have a job.
     
    Tell your Chicken Little Leader to stop giving money to every Muslim Group he sees.

    Hey Deb: Why don`t you lay off half of your staff then you can get the rest of your $160,000 per year food stamps for MC Donald’s.
        

  • SueMt13

    Ms Shultz and Washington Government Staffers, the rest of the work world brings a lunch to work and occasionally eats out.   Start your week this way, on the weekend make a big dinner you can eat off this for two days if you don’t have starving teenagers in the house.  Take out makings for something in the crock-pot that cooks overnight for the next night dinner and leftovers for lunch.    Next week make a big dinner and throw in some extra stuff in the oven chicken breasts or pork chops to use as lunch items during the week if you are vegetarian or going with meatless Mondays make lentils which can become lentil soup, curried lentils etc 
    You serve the people we are not and do not wish to pay for a Zsarist Regime  or French Aristocracy  that can not even imagine how the little people live.
    There is a Cafeteria in the White House perhaps you should find it.

  • CarnactheMagnificent

    Her staff makes more than a half million per year, maybe they should kick in and hire a full time chef!!!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_4HAW7OERGSC7VZM72V7IGDJ3B4 Sharmane

    She is another poster child for term limits.  The vast majority in DC government are delusional, inbred, out of touch and corrupt and cannot be rehabilitated.  The only hope is to completely sweep the debris out of DC next election.  It’s time to send most of these people packing as we certainly can do no worse than what we currently have warming the seats.  

  • http://www.facebook.com/ayla1968 Kaya Tlustek Pace

    Yeah yet they furlough and give a 20% wage cut to the little guys and keep all the money for the higher ups.  I know someone in active military duty who is likely to receive a 20% pay cut.  They are a 1 wage earner family.  He has an important job at the base that is needed.  They want to cut his pay.  He hasn’t even had a pay raise in a long time.  You can’t tell me the military cannot cut in other places.  I know for a fact there is HUGE waste in the military and they cut the pay of the regular military guys who do important jobs.  Give me a break!

  • landofaahs

    Take a lunch in a bag suzzie.  Perhaps you could go to a local school and eat the trash they are serving our kids thanks to Michelle and her I wanna be like Bloomberg and be a food Nazi.

  • Anonymous

    You lived on the same salary last year so why can’t you live on it this year!!  You’re an ugly, dog faced b*tch Debbie!!