NH, Conn.,Federal Gov't and perhaps all governments need to cut spending, and one is the wages and increases they have given themselves. A freshman in the legislature should not get high level pay, and they should not be allowed to serve more than two terms. Their retirement program should be the same as anyone else drawing social security Serve a term as a senator and get the same pay for the rest of your life. Who in their right mind would ever put that system in place.