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Originally Posted by Robbie
I've been seeing that story being repeated everywhere about Congress having a majority of "millionaires".
I'm just wondering though...wasn't the first Congress pretty much ALL wealthy people?
Not "millionaires" because back then a million dollars was more money than could be imagined.
In 2014...a million dollars isn't a big deal anymore.
For instance, $1 in 1913 is worth $23.53 in 2014 dollar value.
So for members of Congress in 1913 to be "millionaires" by today's standards they would have only had to have a net worth of $42,498.
Just saying...keeping that in mind, I'm pretty sure that Congress has ALWAYS been mostly very rich people since the very beginning.
And somehow, even the ones who aren't rich to begin with end up rich. Weird how that happens when they don't get paid that much.  |
They have inside information on what companies are getting major govt contracts and it's not illegal for congress members to act on that information as they have excluded themselves from insider trading rules. It's good to be the guys that write that laws...
At the state level whom have more of a direct effect than congress on your life, you have guys like the FL governor whom owned a drug testing company. He used his power as state governor to close all the state run drug testing facilities and then passed a law which required welfare recipients to be drug tested. Guess guess who got the contract for that!
Another example is former congressman from MA as well as a former DA has become the states largest legal marijuana grower. The state gave out 20 permits and he was given 3 of the 20, wonder how that happened... a former state senator was also given one..
There is really no secret how they become so rich, it's because they are corrupt as fuck and should all be lined up and shot for treason. That will never happen though because everything they do is perfectly legal..