Living Large

In "Conflict Of Interest", I blasted our members of Congress who have as much as 196 million dollars collectively invested in companies doing business with the Defense Department. In "America For Sale" and "You're Out Of Touch", I theorized that our Congressmen and Congresswomen were all wealthy millionaires, which is partly to blame for their indifference of, and inability to, understand the working folks economic woes. I did not realize just HOW wealthy our Congressional members are. Today, I saw it reported on the news that the average wealth of our Congressional members was 10 million dollars. After the shock wore off, I abandoned all hope that this Congress can or will cope with our economic crisis. We need some new "real world" lawmakers to give us some "real world" solutions to our problems. That's pretty far off from what we have now. The people suffer, and all that the wealthy geniuses in Congress can come up with, is a lame "gas tax holiday" to save us a lousy 25 bucks this summer.