Your member of Congress is not like you. Your member of Congress, most likely, is much more cartoonish...

 
Household income of members of Congress
in a new analysis
according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

Around half of the current members of Congress
had an average 2012 net worth of at least $1 million
with the total congressional median net worth of $1,008,767.


Congressional Democrats had a slightly higher
median net worth than Republicans, but that was only in 2012.  
Not much depth really, only numbers to tell the story.

Is it any wonder?

I wonder where the money comes from and why,

It’s nothing shocking really, except the statement that the average
U.S. household had a net worth of $539,500 in 2012, according to the St. Louis Fed.

Statements like this make me wonder what world they're living in,
and what separates us from their realities.

The article talks about fundamental wages of Representatives
and Committee Chairmen’s, Republicans, Democrats
and financial-reporting rules and medians.
And then it goes on to spill a full financial breakdown for public access.

Is this an analysis or a joke? What's the difference?

Those are my quick thoughts on it.
I live in a town where school children now attend class
only 4 days a week. I live in a county seat where social
service budgets were cut to the point that they now reflect
no welfare office in action.  It makes me wonder where
the real breakdowns are occurring and who’s representing it all.

Perhaps the thing those students don't understand
is that buying and maintaining a 28-room 10,000-square-foot
11th century Bavarian castle is expensive. Unsurprising to me actually,
but one just can't set aside tips for a month or so.

Apparently you have to sell your soul to preach the American dream
in the congressional waste land of government asylum.

These numbers represent senseless acts of Congressional disgrace.

$1.04 million to $1 million a year for one congressman –
made me wet just reading about it.

I have a great idea, let declares a war on education.
That’s what gets their attention, “War”  
It begs for answers; is "staggering" even a word for it anymore?

There is a war on education,
and those not informed
enough to see it are never the wiser.


Let’s talk about a war budget without numbers for a moment.
That thing is bigger than the biggest thing ever and then some.
In fact, it’s much bigger than that; it’s gigantic multiplied
by colossal multiplied by staggeringly bumblefucked.





Leafy bits of a paper I wrote in Government
a few years ago, but nothing really changes

Reference: Most Members of Congress Are Millionaires
For the First Time Ever.   National Journal