Ever noticed how so many of them arrive in Washington DC of modest means, and then miraculously throughout the years, they end up becoming very very wealthy?
Well, it’s because they derive power and wealth through their access to our money – to taxpayer dollars.
They use it to bailout their friends on Wall Street and their corporate cronies, and to reward contributors, and to buy votes via earmarks, There is so much waste.
And there is a name for this.
It is called corporate crony capitalism.
SARAH PALIN, Indianola, Iowa - Sept 3, 2011
They make way more through insider information on the stock markets.
Not just Washington. In the county where I grew up, it was notorious that the sheriff would be elected for four years, then become rich enough to retire to Florida. Illegal gambling and racketeering were rife in the county.
Here’s the rub: we excuse it when they’re on our side, and bemoan it when they’re not. No principles.
They say they want to go to Washington to do well for others but end up doing very well for themselves.
As a starter there should be no retirement for any elected official.
Then there are about one hundred other changes that should be made including drastically limiting the amount of money they (and their PACs) can spend on election campaigns.
When someone spends $50 to $100 million dollars to be elected to a job that pays $174,000 a year you know they aren't doing it for the salary.