“So you’re NOT sick of a congress that walks with $160 K a year, not counting their cars, planes, security details, free meals etc no matter HOW MANY TIMES they screw up?”
On a side note, I suspect [with no evidence, but this is just my guess] that many in Congress have a means of hiding funds in secret, possibly Swiss accounts. The reason I think this is because I can see the lifestyle some of them live, and there is no way 160K per year could support it. 160K per year does not enable one to have kids in expensive private schools, drive expensive cars, take expensive vacations, live in a million-dollar home in expensive neighborhoods [with property taxes alone around 25 thousand a year]; and some of the examples I have seen are not people who were wealthy before they went to Congress.
Agreed, $160K doesn’t go far with the lifestyle you describe.
On even another note, Congress gets a pension and lifetime health care (the best in the world) even if they only serve one term. Oh, and they get to vote themselves their own pay raises.
Some research outfit came up with the stats that indicate that every government new-hire costs the USA millions (since most never get a real/private job thereafter). Obama ‘new-hires’ will reach hundreds of thousands times those millions, costing America an arm and a leg forever. Obviously Congress costs the USA trillions due to unintended consequences of their daily gaffes. So yep, the Fed gummit is due for a haircut.