237 millionaires in Congress

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http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1109/29235.html


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the info that is the most important isn't in the report. question: where did their money come from?


our House and Senate is not representative of the citizens.

money given to election campaigns is the dirty part. until that changes the rich and/or religiously insane will rule.

[tekisui]

1. We are ruled by the elite for the elite.

[cali]

4. Not me. None of my reps are millionaires

In fact we don't like millionaires running for Congress. We slap 'em down everytime they run.

[Xenotime]

2. How many are republicans?

[closeupready]

3. "Where did their money come from?" They prob. don't know either - one day they woke up w/Swiss bank

accounts with their names on it. :sarcasm:

[kenny blankenship]

5. Representative government

Now you know what it represents.

[tonysam]

6. That's why they are clueless about the unemployed, and why

they go out of their way to help Wall Street.

[tblue]

10. And they throw us tiny crumbs to shut us up, like this HCR bill.

Howard Zinn's book told how the US gov't, including our revered Founding Fathers, has always been about protecting the rich and empowered. They make gestures toward the "middle class" when and if it serves them to keep us willing pawns on their chess board.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

7. Makes sense. Pretending to "serve the people" is a good way to make lots of money.

[inna]

8. That explains a lot, doesn't it.

I didn't realize the number of millionaires was that high. :wow:

[tblue]

11. No surprise. God bless the Kennedys and the Jay Rockefellers, who still fight for rhe little guy

despite all their wealth. Far too few of the likes of them.

[gateley]

14. I THINK Alan Grayson is a millionaire, too. Self made, though,

as opposed to getting fat off of the corporations.

[Warpy]

9. A net worth of a million is no longer a huge deal

and now qualifies for upper middle class, not wealthy.

The rich man's club has an entry fee of ten million. Even at that, you can barely access the rich man's infrastructure and usually by a wealthier friend.

[happyslug]

13. Yes, I always joke most people will earn over a Million dollars in their life time.

If you start work at 17 and work to you turn 67 (the retirement age for people born after about 1960), that is 50 years of working. If a person works full time he or she is working 40 yours a week 2080 hours a year (52 weeks times 40 hours per week = 2080). Thus if you work full time you will work 104,000 hours in your lifetime. Minimum wage is .15 per hour, times 104,000 = $743,600 dollars. Thus if you only earn minimum wage you will EARN almost 3/4 of a million dollars. If you earn at least $10 an hour, you will earn over a million dollar in your work-life (Actually 1.04 million dollars). A million dollars is almost nothing anymore (If spread over one's life time).

[rgbecker]

15. This from the Census Bureau.....Those with net worth greater than 1.5 million $

2004 2,196,000

That's out of 116,011,000 households.

1.89%

Many in Congress appear to be amoung the wealthiest Americans.

[whatchamacallit]

12. Kinda says it all (nt)

[pampango]

16. I'm frankly surprised that 300 of them are not millionaires. n/t

[valerief]

17. Huh? They're not ALL millionaires? Well, I'll be a monkey's uncle! nt

[closeupready]

19. No, but they DO all enjoy lifetime world-class health care courtesy of the Little People.

(Okay, so it's less a courtesy and more a scam, but we're trying to be gracious here.) :sarcasm:

[Echo In Light]

18. And they CARE about YOU!

[tuckessee]

20. #1 is a Republican but 2,3,4 & 5 are Democrats.

They should include the wealth of spouses as well.

Both McConnell and Pelosi would rate a lot higher if they weren't sheep-dipping a lot of their wealth by channeling it through their partners.

And does anyone really believe Biden's worth is only 27,000? Either he's bamboozling us or he is so financially incompetent he is unqualified to be VP.