justify why members of Congress and Senate refuse to reduce their own wages and benifits in order to reduce deficit.

The Federal Government continues to pay extraordinary wages, benefits, health insurance, travel expenses, and abnormally large retirement benefits, all while increasing the taxation rate, thus reducing the net income for the very populous that elected them to formulate a fair, balanced, and feasible budget.
If a companies boss (People of the United States) tasked an employee (Elected Officials) with a time critical project (Balanced Budget) and failed to complete the project on time (Fiscal Cliff). In the process the end result did not benefit the company (United States) those said employees would be dismissed and not receive their benefits granted productive employees.