Posted on 09/17/2015 5:48:03 AM PDT by rfreedom4u
Where can I find a list of the net worth of those in Congress starting with the year they were elected? Then an ongoing net worth of each time they are reelected?
I'd like to compare how the net worth increases or decreases (yeah right!) the longer one serves in Congress.
I doubt we would be surprised.
I found the Rollcall.com site but it only gives 2013 and the previous year.
Open Secrets is the best I’ve seen.
https://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/
Financial worth should be locatable. Actual worth as human beings, that’s pretty much a negative taken as a whole.
In addition to outright greed , many politicians hide money in their reelection coffers.
Once you get the data, rfreedom4u , note the difference between their entrance into government service, versus where they are now .
I think you will find significant difference in income ,especially among committee chairmen.
The bulk of them are absolutely worthless, particularly the House and Senate leaders.
Are you talking money or brains? Probably lots of money but absolutely no brains.
Socialism Is Legal Plunder - Bastiat
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fergit it!
they are 100% worthless!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I would like to see their wealth when they entered congress as it progressed through the years until the present.
I always wondered how is it someone can enter congress with a civilian salary of say 150 thousand per year, and leave congress within ten years later a multi millionaire, is it any wonder they want to stay for forty years.
I tried Google. It doesn’t give me the beginning net worth and the subsequent net worth for each election up to the present.
Short answer: TSP.
Thrift Savings Plan. All Federal employees were allowed to enroll in it after 1985 or so, when Civil Service Retirement was replaced by Social Security as the retirement plan for Fed employees.
It’s basically a way to invest in a PRIVATE retirement plan, and that’s why the Congress critters who have made a killing with insider trading info re the stock market don’t want to see interest rates go up.
Betcha old timers like Dodds and Frank made MILLIONS through their TSP accounts!
Heck, I knew a Postal worker who made $50,000 in 7 years!!!
I can tell you.....
THEY AINT WORTH A S**t
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