are Senators, Congressmen, & Elected Officials BETTER than us?

we sure seem to think so, and so do they. they don't actually work for a living in the same sense that we all do. they eat only the finest of foods in the finest of settings. they travel the world, meet interesting dignitaries, ride in limos instead of drive, they make millions a year from speaking engagements and books, spend multi millions on inaugaral balls and drink fine wine, all on OUR tab.

very few of their sons or daughters go to war, very few pay their fair share of taxes. they all accept bribes of one form or another, have teams of people to actually do their jobs for them, they hobnob with nabobs kings queens prime ministers and shieks. they live in mansions and they are all beautiful and mostly white.

when they or a family member has a catastrophic illness they have no anxieties. when their sons get busted with cocaine, no problem. if they sign a draft into law, very few of their kids would go to war.

all that i as a fellow american citizen, is exactly the same mentioned above.

one would hope that our elected officials are of a higher caliber than the general population.

and we better not forget it!

That's why every so often I make a point to vote against the incumbent. Sometimes you just need to clean house and neither party has been willing to do this for a while. Politics has become blood sport not statesmanship or something used for the good of the public.

They're generally smarter and more charming than us. And they're better communicators and compromisers than us.

Their morals are suspect.

top o'the line. 15 doctors right there for them every day, or off to Walter Reed.

We elected them to work for our interests, not the other way around. If we think that the issue of more and better jobs is the most important thing, then our elected Senators and Representatives should work to get more and better jobs, instead of outsourcing them. They are no better than I am, they do(mostly) have more money and/or education. They are allegedly just people, like the rest of us. See, thats part of the reason Clinton was so popular, as well as Reagan. They came from "regular guy" backgrounds.

It's not their job that does it. Just look at Hollywood celebs and the parade of cameras and mikes that follow them. They are actually less likely to help someone in need if it risks their spoiled life.

Unquestionably. We are now ruled by Kinder and Gentler nazis as well as the Battered Wives (metaphorically speaking) who facilitate their barbarities.

Police State USA
by Rep. Ron Paul
August 10, 2004

Last week's announcement that the terrorist threat warning level has been raised in parts of New York, New Jersey, and Washington, D.C., has led to dramatic and unprecedented restrictions on the movements of citizens. Americans wishing to visit the U.S. Capitol must, for example, pass through several checkpoints and submit to police inspection of their cars and persons.

Many Americans support the new security measures because they claim to feel safer when the government issues terror alerts and fills the streets with militarized police forces. As one tourist interviewed this week said, "It makes me feel comfortable to know that everything is being checked." It is ironic that tourists coming to Washington to celebrate the freedoms embodied in the Declaration of Independence are so eager to give up those freedoms with no questions asked.

Freedom is not defined by safety. Freedom is defined by the ability of citizens to live without government interference. Government cannot create a world without risks, nor would we really wish to live in such a fictional place. Only a totalitarian society would even claim absolute safety as a worthy ideal, because it would require total state control over its citizens' lives. This doesn't stop governments, including our own, from seeking more control over and intrusion into our lives. As one Member of Congress stated to the press last week, "people who don't want to be searched don't need to come on Capitol grounds." What an insult! The Capitol belongs to the American people who pay for it, not to Congress or the police.

It is worth noting that the government rushes first to protect itself, devoting enormous resources to make places like the Capitol grounds safe, while just beyond lies one of the most dangerous neighborhoods in the nation. What makes Congress more worthy of protection from terrorists than ordinary citizens?

http://www.antiwar.com/paul /

Just richer. But I think you already knew that, mopaul.