It's the Economy....

[Feanor]

The icing on the proverbial cake is that most of your Congressmen refuse to even discuss any language limiting bonuses for the CEOs of the companies that got us in this position.

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Are we to suppose Congress(wo)men go to Washington for the salary? No, they expect to stroke people who will pay them off one way or another.

Take the fine public servant and all-round POS, Dick Cheney. He got to be CEO of Halibuton, not by working his way up through corporate ranks, but by knowing and doubtless making various promises to the right people during his preceding political tenures. Nowadays according to the Wikipedia article his income is around $8M a year. And of course he, or at the very least his Haliburton buddies, are making vast sums as war profiteers in Iraq. (Now listen up, John, this war has got to last a hundred years, got that!?!)