If an athlete fails to do what they pay him for,owners will call him to the office and inform him he will take a pay cut or be released,politicians instead will raise their salaries even though they do a lousy job,in the case of George W Bush,he should be paying the government for being a failure as president and Ted Kennedy should be in jail for manslauther or at least doing community work cleaning toilet seats instead of passing judgement on others.
2006-08-06 16:30:58 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Government
I think they should get a pay cut for a poor preformance.
They should get their pay moved to the end of the budget, and if it doesn't balance they don't get paid! There's no money to pay them with.
2006-08-06 22:18:36 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
1) Athletes have contracts, and no matter what they do doing the life of the contract their pay remains the same. (In some sports they can be cut and paid nothing, in others, they have to be paid even if cut.)
2) Different politicians are elected to do different jobs. Legislators are elected to vote on bills, and, with luck, pass laws their constitutents think best and stop those the constitutents dislike. But no legislator is elected with a guarantee he or she won't be outvoted by others.
The executive branch is different.
3) If the voters don't think a politican has done his or her job, they can do what the sports owner can do: cut them by voting them out of office. And they won't be paid anything.
2006-08-06 23:33:41 · answer #2 · answered by C_Bar 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Politicians should take a pay cut if they're not doing their job, but again that opens up a huge can of worms. Who will regulate it? Who will say they aren't doing their job? Another politician or appointed official? Yeah you can see it's gonna get ugly down the road already can't you?
2006-08-06 23:35:32 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Kennedy's crime was like a million years ago. Why would you go back that far for an example?
Anyway, it's a bad idea. All politicians would end up living below the poverty line.
2006-08-06 23:35:31 · answer #4 · answered by ratboy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You get to decide how things "should" be, huh? FYI, Pres. Bush is doing a swell job and YOU should be scrubbing Ted K's toilet with a toothbrush. Your own.
2006-08-06 23:37:31 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would absolutely love to see that! It's not very logical, but it would still be great to give them the incentive to straighten up and fly right. The only thing that can happen is they can be fired or voted out of office.
2006-08-06 23:35:32 · answer #6 · answered by torreyc73 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's how it works, except even better ..
When they don't perform as advertised they don't just get a pay cut, they get fired from the job.
The process is called "voting for someone else."
2006-08-06 23:36:35 · answer #7 · answered by Oldragon 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Term limits is the answer....get the jerks out of office so they can't perpetuate there and take lobbyist money......only being able to serve 2 terms will root out many problems.
2006-08-06 23:39:55 · answer #8 · answered by jpxc99 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, they should be fired. Vote for someone else, preferably someone not affiliated with one of the major parties.
2006-08-06 23:36:07 · answer #9 · answered by Lonnie P 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not until we pay them the same.
2006-08-06 23:34:30 · answer #10 · answered by Wolfpacker 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋