Congressmen's incomes triple while America gets poorer

http://rt.com/usa/news/wealth-congress-lawmakers-poor-759/
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While the US Census Bureau reports half of America as either impoverished or otherwise living in low-income conditions, 250 members of Congress — nearly half of the Hill — can say that they are legit millionaires.

In Washington DC, one-in-ten residents live below half of the poverty line — but if you can track down Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas) in his Capitol Hill chamber, you might be able to borrow a few bucks from the richest man in Congress — who holds onto $294.21 million in assets.

Rep. McCaul wasn’t always as lucky. Back in 2005, his worth was only at around $12 million.

But with dozens of lawmakers worth more than just one or two millions, those that they represent think that perhaps their vote isn’t being cast by a voice that really represents the people.
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The National Defense Authorization Act that recently cleared Congress has become a hot topic for debate among average Americans who fear the provisions in the bill that will allow for the US to detain and torture citizens indefinitely.

Despite petitions and pleas from coast-to-coast, the legislation passed overwhelmingly. As it turns out, many politicians may be representatives of the people, but their voices are ones bought by corporations.

Senator Robert Portman (R-Ohio) not only voted in favor of the NDAA, he also received $272,853 from the special interest groups that backed the bill.

 

However, to be fair, most of McCaul's money comes from his wife and her side of the family.

Here's the top 50: http://www.rollcall.com/50richest/the-50-richest-members-of-congress-112th.html

Getting back to Maris' link, other quotes:

Between the US Senate and House of Representatives, the median net worth for a member of Congress is around $913,000, reports The New York Times. That man in the middle is Ed Pastor (Dem-AZ), and although he makes a pretty penny nowadays, his income today is gigantic when gauged with what he was worth when he first came to Washington. Twenty years earlier, Pastor pulled in enough to have only $100,000 saved up, a figure he has magnified nearly tenfold in the two decades since. For others, incomes are subsidized in other ways. Rep. Pastor from Arizona, his income is also subsidized by Social Security.

Between the US Senate and House of Representatives, the median net worth for a member of Congress is around $913,000, reports The New York Times. While the US Census Bureau reports half of America as either impoverished or otherwise living in low-income conditions, 250 members of Congress — nearly half of the Hill — can say that they are legit millionaires.

 

I think it's massively misleading to lump "government workers" most of whom earn wages similar to private sector jobs of the same type, with politicians who get to vote themselves raises, pensions and cadillac healthcare.

For instance, in 1973 I took my first job working for a corporation after owning my own business for several years. Most of the time I drove a forklift on graveyard shift for $14 hr and did a lot of overtime at $21 hr.

In 1989 I was riffed (Reduction-In-Force) from my photographer job at the Corps of Engineers due to the effects of Reagan's privatization (which nearly doubled the eventual costs to the taxpayers) and I grabbed a job at BLM for awhile mostly driving a forklift for $12.61 hr. I eventually left the government to return to the private sector, then left the private sector for self-employment when I got tired of working for morons.

Today in 2012, that BLM job is done by an employee of a private firm who never sees him because he works for my old supervisor who is still a BLM employee. The private firm forklift driver is payed $22 hr and the firm gets an extra $5.50 hr, all at taxpayer expense.

 

...after Woodrow was elected in 1912, the US has never been the same. His agenda included the Federal Reserve Act; Federal Trade Commission Act; the Clayton Antitrust Act; the Federal Farm Loan Act; and an income tax. Sadly, I don't think he actually read/understood all of those acts to their fullest before passing them into law. To this day, we are still paying dearly for some of these grave mistakes.

 

No kidding.

What's interesting is that there's a non-racist version of the cartoon that HAAK could have found and used...

http://garrisongraphics.blogspot.com/2011/05/libelous-bigots-attack-me.html

...but perhaps the one he chose made his point for him.

 

To be fair, world finance is and always has been utterly dominated by jews. I'm not saying that's a bad thing, or a good thing, but it is a fact.

 

About as subtle as your signature.

The only things missing are gold coins falling out of his pockets.

 

"American politics is a charade." - Sean Lennon

 

It's true, even if Sean is lesser in every way to Julian.

 

Does anybody actually get poorer once they enter Congress?

It's the only $174k/year job that people spend millions of dollars to get.

 

...precisely, being "Jewish" has nothing to do with the above cartoon's message.

 

...same message [same "global elite bankers" above the clouds]:

 

So why didn't you pick that one in the first place?