The wealthiest members of Congress grew richer in 2009 even as the economy struggled to recover from a deep recession.
The 50 wealthiest lawmakers were worth almost $1.4 billion in 2009, about $85.1 million more than 12 months earlier, according to The Hill’s annual review of lawmakers’ financial disclosure forms.
Coming in at number one, for the second year in a row is John Kerry. Democrats outnumber Republicans by 4. One thing is for certain - party unity means nothing when it comes to getting a slice of the pork pie... It would be an interesting study to find out how many were rich going into their time in office (i.e. "bought" their seat a la Corzine) or how many became millionaires while in office...
In any case, it's interesting to see that the "party of the common man" has more millionaires than the party of big business...
That is all.
Thanks to PISSED for the link.
3 comments:
" coming in first is Senator John Hienz of PA whoose money is now in the hands of Senator John Kerry...."
There. Fixed it for you.
Good point Jay, when you 'feed' at the public trough as long as the dems have, of course a little is going to rub off...
Time to "Redistribute some Wealth" from the Political Wallet, don't you think? Where's Robin Hood when you need him?
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