Oh The Humanity

Good ol' Debbie Wassername Shultz is alerting anyone who will listen about how the sequester is wreaking havoc on a bunch of mistreated and underpaid congressional staff members.

It seems that the sequester has cut funds used to underwrite meals enjoyed by those unappreciated staffers. This obviously ranks right up there with cutting funds for subsidized schools lunches.

Something must be done! The politicians' lackeys are suffering!

Debbie Wasserman Schultz: Sequester nearly starving staffers

Automatic federal cuts are bringing staffers to the brink of starvation, suggested Debbie Wasserman Schultz, at a recent House Legislative Branch Appropriations Subcommittee hearing.

Restaurants on the House side of Congress are increasing in cost so much that aides are being “priced out” of a good meal, she said... The comments came by way of a discussion about the impacts of the sequester on lawmakers’ office budgets. Rep. Jim Moran said he may be forced to lay off a staffer...

FWIW, in the fourth quarter of 2012 Moran had 17 people on his official staff.

...and then Ms. Wasserman Schultz weighed in with her tale of hard times.

Just to clarify: An 8-ounce bowl of Ham and Bean soup at the Cannon Office Building’s carry-out café costs $2. A gourmet wrap or sliced bread sandwich sells for about $5. And in the Longworth Building’s sit-down cafeteria, a serving of stuffed chicken, asparagus and mashed potatoes sells for about $7, Fox News finds.

Meanwhile, Ms. Wasserman Schultz’s staffers earn between $60,000 and $160,000 per year...

Imagine having to fork over $5 for a sandwich, or $7 for a full meal. Why, that's in line with what us peons constituents have to pay (unless, of course, we brown-bag it. I wonder why the staffers can't do what millions of us who perform actual work do).

It's just not fair...

Debbie Wasserman Schultz, concerned staffer overseer