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.
She needs to buy a face lift with all of our money she is stealing from us
Term Limits !!!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLCZhQX_Fm0
Only because these sorry asses robbed the American citizens blind. Time to rid ourselves of the problem. They get richer and powerful and you see where we are. Impeach them all!
….they could be entrusted to the unrighteous mammon…and then to master that in its turn around is a true politician…..im just saying…..with money comes priority….
Ya think?
Re-elect NOBODY
The people are losing there freedoms and the support we are paying for to keep your freedoms and rights for they are being given away because of a few who want the USA destroyed and made a third world country by the Communist for the do not want this country to be One Nation Under God.
Many in Congress have become corrupt instead of doing what they were put there in the first place. The thing is we have a bad tendency to continue to leave them in rather than take the time to see what our representatives are really doing.
$#%&!@* them $#%&!@*s