For the first time in history, the majority of members of Congress are millionaires.
We’re also witnessing the the most corrupt US government we’ve ever seen.
Gee, think there could be a connection?
For the first time in history, a majority of lawmakers in Congress are millionaires at a time when Americans feel that Congress and those in the “Boomtown” that is Washington, D.C. are becoming more removed from their everyday lives.
According to a Center for Responsive Politics’s analysis of “the personal financial disclosure data from 2012 of the 534 current members,” 268 lawmakers in Congress had an average net worth of at least $1 million. That was up from 257 from the year before.The Center for Responsive Politics found that the “median net worth for all House members was $896,000 (Democrats averaged $929,000 to Republicans’ $884,000) and, for Senators, $2.5 million.” In the Senate, “the median net worth for Senate Democrats was $1.7 million, down from $2.4 million in 2011; for Republicans: $2.9 million, up from $2.5 million in 2011.” According to the report, “the median for congressional Democrats was $1.04 million and, for Republicans, $1 million.”
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) is the wealthiest lawmaker in Congress with a reported average net worth of $464 million in 2012 and the “least-wealthy member was Rep. David Valadao (R-Calif.), who reported an average net worth of negative $12.1 million.” According to the Center, Valadao is in debt “due to loans for his family’s dairy farm.”
To calculate the net worth of members of Congress, “the Center added together members’ significant assets, such as corporate bonds and stocks, then subtracted major liabilities such as loans, credit card debt and property mortgages.” The average net worth of each lawmaker in Congress can be found here.
And the American Voters can be very proud, we made them millionaires.
I damn near gaged, saying that. Sadly, it’s true.
Most millionaires are democrats, mostly from taxpayers.
And they all need to me charged and convicted of collusion cause they made things happen and then moved on with their money in the stock market. We would have been in jail for having that knowledge and acting on it and they got rich off of the same thing. And you know they have to live by the same laws we do.
They got it by stealing it from the American Tax Payers! They are all a bunch of thieves, cheats, liars and sneaks!!
And they bitch because they only get $173K!!!!!!! Give me a break!
THEY ARE A BUNCH OF CROOKS .THEY WILL NEED THAT MONEY TO PAY FOR LAWYERS TO TRY AND SAVE THERE ASSES . SO SMILE NOW CRY LATER BITCH
AND THATS UGLY BITCH TO YOU
LAUGH IT UP, FUZZBALL!!! BECAUSE THERE WILL COME A TIME WHEN YOU WILL HAVE NOTHING TO LAUGH ABOUT ANYMORE!!! ONLY PAYBACK FOR WHAT YOU HAVE DONE TO AMERICA & IT”S PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY THE UNBORN, THE CONSTITUTIONAL PATRIOTS & THE CHRISTIANS!!!
GOD how UGLEY that would make a stud horse go limp!!