Politicians Average Americans?

The current salary (2008) for rank-and-file members of the House and Senate is $169,300 per year. I'm sure if you make that much, you're in touch with the average American. Hell, everyone I know made that much last Friday. Now, when Congress tells you their salaries aren't that high, let's remember they're getting paid just to vote, and this only includes their base salaries. If you think they're not getting more than that, well you need more help than I could possibly give you. Let's not forget all that time that Congress is "Not in Session". Which of course is entirely up to them, since they decided when they want to take a break. I guess if I voted on my own pay raises I would be rich too.
Anyway, Barack Obama specifically, or at least his office in the Senate paid in base salary alone between OCT 2007 and MAR 08 $1,291,782. To 60 people. That averages somewhere around $21,000 to the people who actually do the work. Let's be honest with ourselves here, if you had 60 assistants, how much work would you do yourself? What's that you say.....NONE. No shit, what are we paying these people for? Half the time they don't vote one way or the other even if they're present when votes happen. This isn't even a jab at Obama....Biden and MCCain are in the Senate too, their expenditures are probably the same.

So if you ask me, any of these idiots who claim to be "More in touch with the American People" don't live in the America we all live in outside those Government buildings. How many jobs do you know of where your only function is to say yes or no have 60 assistants? Don't feel bad, I can't think of any either. Makes you wonder whose opinions these people really vote with...theirs, one of 60 assistants, or the people who actually elected them. You know, Majority Rule and all that. Yeah right. Things like this really piss me off. Politicians wonder why so many people hate them. Most of them are lawyers on top of all this. The only thing that I wonder about is how you can be so against one of them, and not just as much against all the rest.