Nothing you have said even addresses , much less refutes, my original point which I will repeat here for your benefit as you apparently didn’t get it the first time....”Enriching themselves is not the pressing problem; bankrupting the nation is.” (Emphasis on pressing)
I don’t think for a minute that there is no corruption in government. I realize that members of Congress are not immune from the personal failings that afflict the rest of human kind. I am aware that many go to Washington with very little wealth and become multi-millionaires on a salary of $174,000 a year. I do think, however that all that pales in comparison to the devasting financial hole congress has put this nation in. Year after year of Trillion dollar plus deficits are a much bigger problem for all of us than some Senator hiring his daughter to fill a staff position or some Representative retiring after 10 years and taking a $ 3 Million campaign chest home with him.
The nation is bankrupt because the men and women who go to Washington keep enriching themselves, their families and friends.
Every dollar spent by Washington is not due to their generosity or need, but due to their self-interest.
Even the most conservative members bring pork back home in the form of contracts, subsidies and grants.
If the program was created in the past, it is looted, layered and manipulated to benefit themselves and their circle.
If you think another party will be able to find 218 pure men for the House and 60 for the Senate, you are dreaming.
There is no turning back. Courts have ruled all this spending is not just constitutional, but required!