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Lawmakers should cut pay, find new jobs

December 09, 2012 11:00 pm • Last Updated: December 09, 2012 5:04 pm

By Mark S. Bromley Norwich

One answer to the fiscal cliff - cut the pay and benefits of all elected politicans in Washington by at least 75 percent. Many will leave for the private sector because of their personal greed. Replace them with the unemployed. Without knowledge of how to pass laws they could not do a worse job than those elected to Congress.

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