How about, live within your means? Average is 55 a year, so make your three times that much work for living main residence at home and roommate up when in DC or something. They demand to be paid 40% more to keep up with cost of living so, they are saying we all would need a 40% pay raise to do the same eh. How about you people in congress work your asses off to get the cost of living LOWERED, win win for you as well as the rest of us. If you can not do that then, not a pay raise and "your fired" until we can find people who are willing to, can do and WILL do. Get shit done then we talk about a pay raise and it wont be no 40%.. YOU ALL had one LAST year as well.