Pay Raise

This is one of those things that always annoy me. A <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43085-2003Dec30.html">yearly pay raise </a>just because a person works for the government. As long as you are breathing you get more money. If you are a congressman you get more money. It even works this way if a person is on social security. Now there are a lot of jobs out there where this is not the case so what makes these people so special that they get one every year? The only difference that I see is that they are payed from money collected from taxes payed by those of us who don&acirc;