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

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121. I understand Pelosi is too rich too be whining and her comments were

as you say tone deaf. She certainly isn't suffering by any stretch of the imagination.

As to your other point.

They spend millions to get the job because they know the corporate grease works. And after landing a few huge contracts for their corporate sponsors they will get to go on a nice speaking tour, become a lobbyist, or some other payment in kind and make a shit load more money than they did working as a congress critter.

Even a congress critter that I actively helped get elected by going door to door registering voters went on to become a lobbyist after he left public service. He joined a lobbyist group that in fact I have a great disdain for because they represent nothing in the ways of issues of that person I helped get elected. In fact I consider his lobbying to be in direct conflict with the issues he supported when I worked for him as a volunteer many many years ago.

How Tom Daschle Lobbies In Secret: Influence Laundering
First Posted: 03/18/10 06:12 AM ET Updated: 05/25/11 03:45 PM ET

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Reporters Chad Terhune and Keith Epstein wrote that Daschle "advised UnitedHealth in 2007 and 2008 and resumed that role this year. Daschle personally advocates a government-run competitor to private insurers. But he sells his expertise to UnitedHealth, which opposes any such public insurance plan. Among the services Daschle offers are tips on the personalities and policy proclivities of members of Congress he has known for decades."

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At the beginning of the Obama presidency, Daschle, too, seemed destined to be the top health-reform adviser in the White House -- and secretary of Health and Human Service to boot. But his nomination crashed and burned when it came out that he hadn't paid more than $140,000 in taxes over three years on a luxury car and driver. But many observers were even more unsettled by how blatantly Daschle cashed in after leaving office, earning $5 million in just four years, much of it from the health industry.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/25/how-tom-daschle-lobbies-i_n_367634.html

You get what you pay or the else the corporations will KEEP getting what they pay for.

I use to have the utmost respect for Tom Daschle and was proud to have campaigned for him. But seeing Daschle now as a lobbyist protecting the health care industry rather than the American people saddens me greatly....