California's elected officials urged to pare their own pay

I couldn't have stated this any better than Lynne Larsen. I'm an office technician & my salary is is $39,000 per year. My take home pay would drop $163.20 per month. This is not a nice dinner and a high-end cigar for the folks under the dome because their dinners & cigars are paid for, it's called per diem. $163.20 is my gas, electric, water & telephone bills. I guess I'm suppose to tell Pacific Gas & Electric, A.T & T. & the San Francisco Water Dept. to turn off my gas & electric, water & telephone since I won't be able to pay them. California's legislators are like AIG, General Motors, Ford & Chrysler's executives. They want us taxpayers to pay for their excessive compensation while they stay at 5 star hotels such as the Ritz Carlton, fly around in private corporate jets & eat in posh restaurants that the rest of us can only dream of. I've never flown on a private jet, the closes I've gotten to a private jet was using frequent flyer miles to fly in the business class of a commercial airplane.