I'm Going to Vote for a Fucking Raise

"I feel that on my own, people with no accountability who just do what they want and then make the young people deal with the consequences of their action," he says. "The thing I want to highlight and point out is that members of Congress vote themselves. They get to vote on whether or not they get a raise." The last time lawmakers actually took a paid cut was during the Great Depression in 1930s,. Not even during the 2007 Great Financial Crisis did Congress sit there and say, hey, maybe we should actually not be taking so much tax dollars and putting them in our own pocket.