[Vaquero]

$170,000 X 435 representatives = $73,950,000 in government waste a year......

[Don Corleone]

$170,000 X 435 representatives = $73,950,000 in government waste a year.

And thats not even the tip of the iceberg when you consider the costs of operations, secretaries, assistants and other "hangers on" along with all their perks such as travel, postage, health spas,barber shops etc. etc. etc. ad infinitum.

[TopQuark]

You get what you paid for.

You apparently think that that it's OK for the entire U.s. congress to make in a year as much as a star of "The Pirates of the Caribbean" makes in six weeks. I do not.