Americans Suffer: Congress Takes A Pay Raise

Americans can feel a little more comforted by the fact that the people we pay in Congress to make terrible decisions and destroy our country must be hurting just as bad as we are, right?  After all, if a company suffers the first people to be hurt and take cutbacks are the employees, right?

Wrong.

The following picture provides an easy summary on how Congress has fared during our current depression.

At least they have not been making inside trades in their personal accounts based on current and future government proposals.

Oh wait, they have.

Watching America's "royalty" all together last night made me sick to my stomach.  Apparently I'm not alone as the congressional approval rating has now fallen to 9%.