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

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96. I never said Pelosi is struggling. I said we pay our congress critters far less

than their private sector counter parts.

Basically if you aren't a millionaire already and you aren't willing to be a corporate whore to become a millionaire then the salary offered is chicken shit compared to what one could make in the private sector.

So since we won't pay our leaders much they sell their services to corporations who then get represented rather than us.

I would rather pay congress to represent US with the stipulation that we have stiff laws against corporate whoring. If we can get these laws and still pay our leaders peanuts in comparison to the private sector that's fine too and I'm down with that. But if we can pay our leaders more and end the graft and corrption I have no problems with that either.

As to altruism. The cold hard truth is that in modern politics it just doesn't work. To that end you get what you paid for. Or as it is now you get what the corporations paid for.

It is awesome when a leader is extremely altruistic and I heartily encourage altruism to be a strong trait in our leadership. But the fact is most politicians aren't altruistic and only put of the facade of altruism in order to keep the corporate grease flowing behind the curtains.

If we can pay a baseball player millions just to entertain us, doesn't it make sense to pay those who oversee the spending of trillions of dollars of our money every year enough to make sure that money is spent for the good of the people and not some corporation?

JMO