Payroll inequity scandal!

Politico demands outrage!

Nearly 2,000 House of Representative staffers pulled down six-figure salaries in 2009, including 43 staffers who earned the maximum $172,500 — or more than three times the median U.S. household income.

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Most of the staffers at the top salary level serve in upper-level committee and leadership office staffs, including staff directors, policy advisers and legislative counsels — positions that have often had direct input on the formation of major legislation, such as health care. Many of those staffers also have law degrees.

Grr! Hulk smash!

Meanwhile, don't forget this:

Why?

Think of it this way:

People who understand reconciliation and quietly do the work of getting it right: $172,500.

People who don't understand reconciliation and loudly do the work of fucking up the story in front of the whole country: $5,000,000.

Everybody STFU. Thank you.