Budget reduction beginning at the top- Part one

I believe that people should be compensated justly for what they do, however in these difficult times, sacrifices must be made. Congress should put everything on the table, including their own salaries and other officials who eventually get rich doing whatever they do. According to my calculations, simply by paying 80% of salary to our senators, representative, and federal judges, we would cut the federal budget by  $120,000,000. The congressional part includes all 535 senators and congress persons base salaries. The judicial part include approximately 3000 federal judge positions. Include the supreme court justices and another $400,000 can be added. I looked at the 182 ambassador positions, but their compensation at between $130-170,000 may be okay. Perhaps we don't need an ambassador to Fiji, since we seem to do without them in countries like Iran.

Maybe this could be looked upon as nickel and dimeing a budget that is way out of control, but that seems to be an approach that some would like to take, so let's go for it.