I can agree that 17% may seem a little high if you don't count that many wages have been frozen pretty much for years now. All this time while the rest of the Country is living on less, these same idiots in Congress have given themselves a raise. I believe that history has shown that you keep kicking the little guy, sooner or later he will get up and fight back. This is how the Country got started. Hungry people, after awhile, get angry and that anger has risen to revolt many times across this globe. We have been lucky that we haven't seen the type of revolt yet that overthrows governments. But keep on. It can happen.