Millionaires in Congress

CRP Reports 237 Millionaires in Congress:
"Talk about bad timing.
As Washington reels from the news of 10.2 percent unemployment, the Center for Responsive Politics is out with a new report describing the wealth of members of Congress.
Among the highlights: Two-hundred-and-thirty-seven members of Congress are millionaires. That’s 44 percent of the body – compared to about 1 percent of Americans overall."

Let me preface my comments with the following observation. I can't tell you how hard it was to pick an image to attach to this post. Normally I go to Micro$oft's new Bing search engine, click on Images and make a quick pick from the list of pictures they present me. Not this time. All of the simulacrums (look it up) were so apropos to this article that it must have taken me 15 to 20 minutes to make up mind. Boy there are a lot of people who dislike politicians out there, and every one of them has a camera or a drawing pad.

Back to my comments on the article about Politician Salaries.

I hate to say this, but I feel sorry for these poor Pols, and before you start throwing stones let me explain why. Imagine here you are making a mere $170K a year having to make difficult decisions about spending Millions of Tax Payer Dollars (TPD aka OPM) on pet projects for your colleagues. Then to add insult to injury the Fed starts printing more money and low and behold you are now in the position of having to spend Billions of Tax Dollars just to keep up with the increased money supply. The final insult comes when you now have to make a decision to vote for a health care bill that will require you to give the OK to spend 1.2 TRILLION of TPD (OPM) on a bill. You're further annoyed because this piece of legislation was requested by some babe from a place called California, who represents a district that consists of less than one tenth of one percent of the nations population. Voting for it may cost you your job, not doing so may cost you your job. My God what do they expect from you. All this work and responsibility for what, after all you only make a paltry $170K a year, and your net worth is only a few Million. Hell at this rate you can't steal enough to live on much less get re-elected. And all the while those fat cats on Wall Street collect multi-millions of dollars in bonus's with TARP money that you voted for.

Life is so unfair. Just ask our underpaid Congress.