I wanna be a Congressperson.

[cornermouse]

I wanna wear very nice clothes and tasteful jewelry, carry nothing more than a few sheets of paper, sit at a desk asking wealthy and powerful people non-questions, get an incredibly large paycheck with an automatic pay increase attached, the kind of benefits that most of us can only dream about. I wanna ride in a limo everyday. I wanna be wined, dined, and junketed by lobbyists. I wanna have very, very nice retirement benefits.

Yep. I wanna be a Congressperson.

[aquart]

1. Me, too.

Especially since I now know I'm not expected to read those long, complicated bills.

[cornermouse]

3. Yeah. It must be a tough life.

A lot to endure. They work so hard. I guess that's why they want to raise the retirement age for the rest of us.

:eyes:

[DefenseLawyer]

2. I wanna be sedated.

[izzie]

4. And they stay there so long.

I know the voters have the vote but I wonder if it is good for the country? It is starting to look more and more like 500 plus people are working for about 1 million very rich people. Course a few vote against the norm but it seems to be fewer every two years. I guess it is what the voters want but some thing is going on that one hopes will not take this country down. Govt. and big business are not set up for the same thing and can not be run the same. One is to serve people and the other is to make a money for the stock holders and owners. It is getting mixed up in Congress and the WH I think.

[cornermouse]

6. You're right. Its not good for the country.

Like I said, they live a life of what most of us would call luxury. The last time I saw something about their income level, every single one of them was a millionaire.

Its set up so that they get substantial automatic pay raises. The only way they wouldn't get that raise would be to pass a bill to reject it. Salaies, benefits (current and future), retirement, all lavish. And then, there are the lobbyists.

[whistle]

5. Well, all you have to do is sell your soul to the highest bidder!

[Enquiringkitty]

7. I have been saying since the 60s that congressmen and senators should make

whatever the median income is in their home state. This would be incentive to make sure the people of their state are doing well and taken care of....if the people are doing well; so are they!

[cornermouse]

8. I like that idea. I really do.

[NorthSideCubsFan]

9. What we desperately need is more turnover in Congress

and yet liberals line up like sheep in support of "campaign finance reform" which is nothing but incumbency insurance.

[Squeech]

10. You can do all of the above

without getting elected. Just get a job as vice president of procurement (i.e. buying agent) for any large corporation. Vendors who want your employer's business have lobbyist equivalents who will happily take care of your every expressed desire, and several that you haven't expressed (that might be illegal to express). And you'll never have to kiss a single baby.

Works especially well in the military. Feather your nest in uniform for 20 years, get your honorable discharge, then immediately get a cushy appointment to the board of directors of one or more of the firms you used to deal with. You're set for life!

[Cleita]

11. Move to my district. I hate my Repug Congressman and yet

no one has run against him in two elections so he gets shooed in with no problem. Most pols seem to think he's unbeatable, but I think there is a whole segment of the hispanic population a Democrat could reach out to and the good ole boy ranchers and Monstanto Corp. that keep this turkey in office won't be able to stop him or her.