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Does this surprise anyone? And these are the “representatives” of the American people?
Again, thanks to Gunny Blogger for the links.
Congress is loaded, if you weren’t already aware.
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The Center for Responsive Politics analyzed the personal financial disclosure data from 2012 of the 534 current members of Congress and found that, for the first time, more than half had an average net worth of $1 million or more: 268 to be exact, up from 257 the year earlier. The median for congressional Democrats was $1.04 million and, for Republicans, $1 million even.
All the rest are not exactly struggling. The system is set up to require substantial wealth so a person can campaign without having to work for a living. That sets all of them aside from most of us. It also creates a built in bias against people with poor and working class incomes. Attending lunches, dinners, parties and trips paid for by lobbyists is another factor separating the Congress Critters from the people that elected them and making them closer to the class that bribes them.
Most enter Congress as members of the 1% club. Congress is a well paid part time gig. Most of the downtime is spent on never ending fundraising for reelection. It takes $ to know $.
I have always been a fan of making politicians use public funding for campaigning for public office to make it easier for people to run on ideas rather than money which would make it easier for someone who is classified as middle class or poor to win elections.
Isn't Issa number one? That guy is loaded. But some perspective here...when businessmen get rich they are successful, but when Congressmen are, something is wrong?
I would only assume the prostitutes that sold our country would be Millionaires. We are the largest economy in the World.
Most of these leeches bounce back and forth between Multi-National Corporations and the Public Sector.
They have no fear or remorse of the public as they have security in the private sector.
I've always thought of them as the pimps, who prostitute laws for their own benefit.
LOL, true. I actually think of The Federal Reserve and their Multi-National Banks and Oil Companies as the Pimp, Our now hollow Government as the whores that do whatever they say and the American taxpayers as the unsuspecting Johns that are always left unsatisfied.
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