"Struggling to make ends meet" on $174K a year?? Really Nancy???

[Egalitarian Thug]

69. Oops, it's almost 4 times average household income ($46K), not 6.

If you have problems making it on $138,000 annual gross in NJ, you either need a better accountant or reassessment of your own lifestyle. It's not surprising to hear this as living beyond one's means has come to define The American Dream.

Congress makes a far better living than 95% of their constituents and it may have slipped past you, but Congress is already the province of the wealthy. That's the source of our problem, that and the fact that those that go in not rich soon become rich with alarming regularity.

Compare the job of political representative to other professions and it becomes clear that, aside from movie star, professional athlete, hedge fund manager, or inheritance, it is one of the easiest and most lucrative professions in the nation.