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Growing wealth widens distance between lawmakers and constituents

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, 29th December 2011 at 02:49 PM (893 Views)
A Volconvo member recommended this article to me, Growing wealth widens distance between lawmakers and constituents.

The article is worth a read, but, as the member pointed out, the graphics are startling.

Congressional net worth more than doubles since 1984. The net wealth of members of the U.S. House of Representatives has increased over the years, with net worth in 2009 more than double that of 1984, but American family wealth has been stagnant. While Republicans are somewhat wealthier than their Democratic counterparts, the gap between them two has narrowed considerably.
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  1. MalloryKnoxious's Avatar
    Family wealth has remained stagnant despite of the fact that families are aggressively tapping into their human resources, with the number of dual-earning households steadily growing.
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  2. Jack's Avatar
    Every day there's less reason to refer to them as our "representatives" in government.
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  3. ironeagle's Avatar
    Well unfortunately when any entity is allowed to set their own wages in government then there's no real way to stop them from becoming as rich as they want to.
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