I’m sure they each feel entitled, like celebrities (in their own mind).
Our country has it upside down by allowing celebrity status for these grifters. They should be just the caretakers of the details of laws US society has agreed on.
It’s like elevating sports referees or umpires above the star players. A sports league succeeds because the public wants to see the rare talents of the star players. The refs/umps just help the game go smoothly and in the best case are not noticed.
Good analogy with sports and refs/umps.
But it’s bad, really really bigly badly bad. See here and try to keep your cool:
https://www.celebritynetworth.com/articles/how-much-does/the-ten-wealthiest-members-of-congress
We are not jealous of a person’s wealth. But if we are wealthy, do we need to have our ultra millionaire colleagues with us in Congress?
Is this club of ultra millionaires and billionaires a true representation of the American people? Especially as many arrive to Congress with an empty suitcase and exit with a suitcase stuffed with Benjamins.
Examples of Members arriving with little to nothing:
AOC: former job: bartender
Net worth now: $5 million+, and growing. WTH?
Paul Ryan: former job: Driver of OscarMeyer Weinermobile
Net worth now: $20 million+
To be fair, Ryan got his bachelor’s degree, and went to work in Congress as a legislative aide, then ran for Congress, elected when he was 28 years old. Nothing wrong here, but the $20 million? When questions were swirling about all this money he suddenly came up with, his PR agents said he married a rich gal, only she wasn’t rich, her father was well-to-do, but he was still living! WTH?