Rather mindless response Mark. By what standard were these people "grossly underpaid"? They took the job knowing what it paid and agreed to the pay. As for free-loading bums... they/we have been paying up...and up and up and up! Seems every week we either hear how we are broke and need to increase our taxes or close school or some official just spent millions on something completely inappropriate. Oh, one last thought. What have you got against patriots? Do you even know what the word means?