Let Me Get Some Of That Raise

Everywhere I turn, someone's bitching about a pay raise someone else received.

First it was Ohio University President Roderick McDavis, who was given an $85,000 raise this past summer despite how the faculty and students feel about him.

Now, President Barack Obama is getting into it. In Friday's New York Times, Obama called the bonuses Wall Street executives took during the financial crisis shameful.

There will be time for them to make profits, and there will be time for them to get bonuses,” Mr. Obama said during an appearance in the Oval Office with Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner. “Now’s not that time. And that’s a message that I intend to send directly to them, I expect Secretary Geithner to send to them.

It gets more complicated though. Well, maybe not complicated if you can whisk through the shit. On his first day in office, Obama made this great stand and froze all White House employee salaries. How great of him.

Meanwhile, my parent's haven't taken a paycheck in weeks, trying to keep their business afloat. They've had to layoff multiple people and cut everyone's hours across the board just to keep the company's head above water. Glad to see Barack could freeze wages while everyone else is cutting them.

Maybe instead of worrying about everyone else, we should all be like Congress and have the best intentions. It's not like they have padded their pockets lately.

Come on everybody! Let me get some of that raise!