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US congress becomes 'club' of millionaires: Democrats slightly wealthier than Republicans
For the first time, half of the members of the US Congress are millionaires, according to a wealth analysis. At least 268 of the 534 politicians in the Senate and House of Representatives had a net worth of 1m dollars or more in 2012. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesAnybody who cannot make a million out of being in Congress should be chucked out by the voters as being incompetent because all politicians everywhere are self-seeking narcissists.
Jan 11th, 2014 - 09:40 am - Link - Report abuse 0Paupers compared to China's politicians.
Jan 11th, 2014 - 10:30 am - Link - Report abuse 0They are millionaires before getting there. GW is rolling in his grave, though was was a multi-millionaire in the context of his day. However, he knew what service to his country meant and resigned so as not to forget his new born country was a democracy and nothing else.
Jan 11th, 2014 - 12:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0State Senators and Representatives is where one sees more of the ordinary Joe's serving in Congress.
Becomes? In USA, it's an initial requirement...
Jan 11th, 2014 - 02:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The two things Americans are obsessed by are money and guns and it appears that this has been the case from the early colonial days, through Independence and right up to the present time. As someone mentions above, in his day, George Washington was the wealthiest American alive at the time of Independence and most of the other independence leaders weren't far behind him. If you want to find out more about how it is has all come about then have a read of Howard Zinn's “A People's History of the United States”. It makes for very intersting reading.
Jan 11th, 2014 - 03:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Commenting for this story is now closed.
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