interesting...

[xchrom]

[d_legendary1]

1. They'll never tell you that

When they are running for office.

[xchrom]

2. welcome

:hi:

[OffWithTheirHeads]

4. Love it! If you repeat... Welcome.

[handmade34]

5. therefore; we should always ask n/t

:toast:

[bigwillq]

8. Hello

Welcome to DU! :hi:

[OhioChick]

3. No Surprise

K&R

[Sirveri]

6. If you just use the Senate it's more like 98% compared to 1%.

Though I suspect there are more millionaires on paper than 1%, simply due to property value net worth.

[redqueen]

7. Why do you think it's so easy for the GOP to get their way?

Cause too many Dems in Congress have more in common with the GOP's base than they do with us.

[d_legendary1]

12. Cause that's where the money is

And in this economy you have to lick boots if you want to be elected. Thanks again SCOTUS!

BTW Thanks for the warm welcomes. Much appreciated.

[malaise]

9. Politics is profitable

Rec

[lpbk2713]

10. It beats working for a living.

(But don't expect them to tell you that)

[PETRUS]

11. K&R

Questions to ask in an effort to understand power:

Who governs?

Who wins?

Who benefits?

The 1% is running the place and running it for themselves, no doubt about it.

[louslobbs]

13. I've always thought that the best paying corporation was our hijacked corporate government and looks

like I was right. It really does pay for those who choose to become "public servants," to take money from their "corporate constituency," (and most of our "elected" government officials do take money from the corporate people,) then work hard doing the bidding of those corporate people against the will of the majority (the actual people) in order to receive continued corporate "donations" to get "re elected"................

then, those who are "re elected," continue to do the bidding of the corporations, the cycle continues, and you rinse and repeat until either you can retire with a fat tax payer funded pension, you are no longer useful to your corporate masters and are forced out of office, or you drop dead.

It's a disgusting cycle of you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours, where the 99% don't have a back to scratch in the game, are basically ignored and forced to live with draconian cuts to earned benefits, fewer and fewer job opportunities, limited or no health care or dental benefits, loss of housing, inability to adequately feed family and so on,................................

all the while, those like the millionaire members in Congress, live it up on the tax payer dole giving their corporate owners tax cuts, corporate welfare, all sorts of tax loopholes to game the system, and many other benefits and entitlements not offered to we, the 99%......I guess we don't rate with one measily little vote.

Why, they even have their very own activist Supreme Court and other activist judges arount the country, to make things all nice and legal like.

Let's face it, these people are far more than just out of touch with the majority, bribes disguised as campaign donations however, has them completely in touch with those who "donate" to their campaigns to facilitate their strangle hold on government power by continuing to buy the "elections" of those who will "tow the corporate line" so that they can continue to create policy and move legislation along that further enriches all of them.........at the expense of all of us.

They just want us to go away, or "get sick and die quickly," but instead, we are choosing to show them who has the real power.......the 99%.
Lou

[TBF]

14. K&R nt

[Bonobo]

15. And the 50% that are not yet millionaires will ALL be after they leave congress

and get cushy jobs either as lobbyists or private lawyers. Many in fact run for congress because they know it will make them profitable when they peddle their influence later.

[demmiblue]

16. K&R

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