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[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by Clodfobble

Admittedly, it's hard to notice things that aren't true. Current salary for Congressmen: $174,000 per year. Current salary of the President: $400,000 per year.

Some politicians are certainly millionaires, and a few even multimillionaires, but they accomplished that through other ventures, not their politician's pay.

Absolutely right. And the amount they make now is nothing compared to the future earnings. I am sure Obama will just give all of his future earnings to the poor in Chicago.

[Clodfobble]

Meh. I don't really care. The rich have always been in charge. But in the case of politicians, the "rich" part almost always came before the "in charge" part. My cousin was actually looking to run for public office awhile back, and after a bit of examination he realized that it would not be possible for him to run his full-time business and be a politician at the same time. If you want a huge payoff, you stay in the private sector--politics gets you power, but the money realistically has to come from somewhere else.