Thursday, March 10, 2011

The Freshmen in Congress

Have some mad scrillah:
Sixty percent of Senate freshman and more than 40 percent of House freshmen are millionaires, the Center’s study finds. Roughly 1 percent of Americans at large claim the same lofty financial status.

“Even though millions of Americans continue to struggle financially, most of the nation's newest congressional representatives are a world away from such constituents' financial realities," said Sheila Krumholz, the Center's executive director.
This is why the superwealthy keep getting subsidized by people like you.  And until people stop voting for rich people just because they think if they do then there's a chance THEY'LL become rich, and start voting for people that can actually be of use to them, this percentage will keep going up and up.  And it's gay for us to be surprised about it anymore.

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