"Bob Klahn -> Bob Ackley"  wrote in
news:28215$POL_INC{at}JamNNTPd:

 BA>> Probably true.  But the fact that he was so poor that he
 BA>> had to borrow the train fare to DC after being elected to
 BA>> congress in the late 1940s coupled with the fact that when
 BA>> he left the senate he had amassed a fortune much greater
 BA>> than the aggregate of all of the congressional/senate
 BA>> salary he'd been paid over the preceding 15+ years says
 BA>> something about him.

 BK>   Says more about the system. He didn't even have to take bribes
 BK>   to do that. He was allowed to accept investment opportunities
 BK>   back then, unlike now. And that was common back then.

 BK>   I do not approve, I think an elected official, or appointed,
 BK>   should live on his govt paycheck. But that wasn't the rule than.

 BK>   Oh, and I include the president. So, he might have to have a
 BK>   bigger paycheck, or allowance for entertaining. Don't know about
 BK>   that.

What bugs me is how even those politicians who are really rich, still get
paid nicely, get free medical care, free just about everything.

If it was up to me, there would be a "means test," and politicians who are
already rich would have to buy their own health insurance and whatnot.

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