Richest lawmakers grew wealthier as economy faltered

Yes , the deck is DEFINITELY stacked against us .... The only thing we CAN do , is boycott their corporations and thus damage their holdings . Then sit back and watch them change the names of the companies or jump ship ..... Above all , refuse to fall into the trap of thinking you are powerless . We still outnumber them , and no corporation can continue without customers .

P.S. The only hero I know of who got elected to the H.R.
was named David Crocket. He may have traveled as far
as Crocket County in Texas...I wasn't present then. I can't
say for sure. But there was an hombre I could respect. His
values were the same as mine. He also knew you can't take
it with you. No doubt a truth lost to the turds lusting for EZ
money through the prostitution of politics. I have no doubt
that their corruption makes the devil laugh. We all got a chance
to read the articles posted here on Current.com within the
last year alerting us to how many Millions of dollars Grassley,
Shumer et al were greased with by the Corporations representing
the Big Businesses of Health Care, Insurance et al. It's not hard
to see their heros are the ones who can misuse public office
to serve the interests of the Monopolist enemies of Democracy.

Wealthier in terms of money, only. Funny isn't it ? How people
like shithead Schumer and Kerry send their robot Emails to my
Email account as though their con artist spam had an engraved
RSVP from me soliciting their junk mail. Both of them PERSONALY
know I wouldn't piss on either of them if they were on fire. And even
more importantly why that's so. Yet they make themselves into the
kinds of jackasses they are(no pun intended) with their snake oil
wagon traveling town to town soliciting their victims to help them.

WTF kind of bad joke they really are. Maybe Kerry IS too abominably
stupid to understand we know he's part of the same Skull & Crossbones
society of Piracy that George Bush Jr. is. And that he wasn't looking
to assume the Presidency because he deserved it any more than
John McLame deserved it...But rather simply because it was his path
to immortality. He married into big money like a gigolo. He went into
politics to cash in on his Vietnam experience like Mclame did. What
these pathetic clowns can't realize, blinded by Big Money as they are,
is that we don't give their rats asses any schrift. The Corporate Party
of Big Money lubed their way into Congress. And I would almost laugh
if the Heinz Corporation per se got more votes for Kerry's Senate seat
on the next go round. More people in Hollywood likely use Heinz catsup
to simulate bloody wounds in motion pictures than Kerry has preserved
its American Revolutionary heritage for the benefit of all of the USA. We
here in New York are also an American Revolution State. And we honor
our heritage. My clan entered Pennsylvania in 1706 as some of the
Pennsylvania Dutch pioneers as Quakers. Our Amish breathren here
in New York are happier than any of Kerry's parasitical acquisition of
wealth could buy him. They EARNED their bread. Maybe Kerry should
wear another costume more appropriate to his life ledger than a business
suit. A 3 cornered hat, a pegleg, a parrot perched on his shoulder, and
a swashbuckler's would be more appropriate garb for that rum lot. But
because Kerry's in Show Business on Capitol Hill and not Hollywood,
he has to wait until Halloween to show his true face.

Why is Bluemountain.com the source for the story and also the main source of income for: 7. Rep. Jared Polis (D-Colo.): $56.5 million. Before his 2008 election to Congress, Polis made a fortune in online enterprises, transforming his family's greeting card company into BlueMountain.com and founding ProFlowers.com

is this just an advertisement to get us poor people to spend more on internet greeting cards?

And these are the people who are going to decide about letting the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy expire.

anybody knows how much al gore and obama is worth??..

good stuff. voted up.

FEAR rules this Herd. The rich people herd all knows the taxpaying Public wants Free Energy whether solar, wind, tides off our thousands & thousands of miles of COASTLINE. The rich people heard you!

Can't you smell it?! That's the distinctive smell of FEAR. The herd senses the wind has changed direction against them so they are running hard and sweating. Sweating so hard you can smell it like a football locker room AFTER the game.

They have to reach a financially superior king of the hill position. Al Gore did it. Politicians saw Mr. Gore do it and they're following their ad hoc Leader. This isn't rocket science it's survival. Gore isn't in office, true, but he has successfully taken over as pack leader. He broke out of the political mode and MADE A HOLLYWOOD MOVIE.

He earned his position by the sweat of his brow and quite frankly he did so very honestly. The rest of the herd, all they know how to do is politics, so when one broke the mold they are unable to break he made himself the alpha male of the pack. Don't criticize the man ADMIRE HIM.

Don't we males AND females all aspire to make that move up the inside rail and cross the same finish line that Gore demolished?! He passed it so fast he wasn't even BREATHING HARD.

The rich herd is just following him and building as large a bankroll they possibly can because they realize its going to be a long winter they need to hibernate through til this godawful crummy world economy recovers its balance back in their favor.

Why does it say http://BlueMountain.com up top?

relates to the post about the Mayor in Mississippi taking the pay cut.....What if anyone with a net worth greater than 1-2 million dollars could not hold public office?

Surprise surprise the rich getting richer while the poor get poorer

While these "people" (and i'm using that term loosely) are collecting a full paycheck in their respective jobs, people are losing jobs, losing homes and not eating because of the economy.

Great to see these "Leaders" doing great in hard times....