I'm sure this was not the intention of our founding fathers

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by jms62

1. Did our founding fathers intend for this to be such a lucrative career path?
2. Who do these people "represent"? Certainly not those whose income has stagnated and are in danger of their job being shipped overseas or replaced by an H1B with less of a skill set.


It looks like there is a ton of money to be made in making the rules of the game.

http://ballotpedia.org/Net_worth_of_...epresentatives

several years ago, i posted a link on here to an article about what group made money during the huge economic downturn caused by the banking and finance industry scandal.
obviously it wasn't the poor, or middle class. but the rich didn't benefit either. but one group did...
congress.
i know just recently they discussed changing their insider info rules...yeah, the fox guarding the hen house again.
no one has things loaded more in their favor than our elected representatives. incumbents pretty much are assured a win. they can stay for a lifetime, and make a ton of money.
note also that they 'snuck in' an amendment to the most recent budget, increasing 10fold the amount of money they could accept. they aren't even trying really to be clever anymore.