The folks that decided that having 49 million people without Health Insurance even if anywhere from 10-20 million could be illegal aliens (undocumented citizens). We have found out that even though unemployment is at 10.2% close to half our congressmen have no worries at all. There are 535 member of congress 435 in the House and 100 in the Senate. That means over 44% have no idea why it is like to live paycheck to paycheck. It gets even better that the base salary for the congress job pays $174,000 a year. This is not across the board as Speaker Pelosi makes $223,500. We will surprise you with the next fact, of the top five millionaires four a democrats. The richest lawmaker is a Republican California Republican Representative Darrell Issa with a net worth around $251 million. The next four are all Democrats, also from California Representative Jane Harman comes in at $244.7 million. The top Senator is the Democrat from Wisconsin Herb Kohl, worth about $214.5 million followed by Virginia Senator Mark Warner clocking in at $209.7 million rounding out the top five is Senator Gigolo from Massachusetts Democrat John Kerry worth about $208.8 million. He divorced his first wife Julia Thorne who was only worth around $300 million, to marry up to Teresa Heinz who has a net worth of $600 million at the time. You have to feel bad for the Kerry’s though the banking crisis and stock market drop as he once reported a worth of $335 million as he has lost $127.4 million. The payroll for the year is over 93 million dollars and if there is not a call for a litmus test in congress there should be.
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