Politicians Don't Help The Little Guy

Anyone voting based on any expectation of the politician looking out for the little guy is sadly naive. Playing the class warfare game is the easy way to power and money for the politician who is corrupt and lazy and there is an abundance of lazy corrupt politicians. The median net worth of members of congress is $913,000 vs $100,000 for the general population. Congress' net worth has risen 25% since the 2008 recession vs an average 8% drop in net worth of the average American during the same time. About 50% of the members of congress are millionaires vs only 5% of the general population. Many of these defenders of the poor are worth tens of millions or hundreds of millions of dollars. They take a $174,000 paycheck yearly from you and me. Why? Most of them have more more money right now than you, me and ten other people will make in a lifetime yet they still take our money (poor people's money) to pay themselves a huge paycheck most of us could not dream of ever having. If they cared about the little guy they would say to themselves, "Let's see, I have millions of dollars right now. The people I represent have very little, maybe it's not right to take their money when I have more than I could spend in 10 lifetimes already." They don't do this though because they don't think like this. They are rich stealing from the poor and your money is more important to them than you are. cjpost