"Our" Wealthy Congress

Here is a prime example of how the US Congress doesn't represent We the People:

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/56654.htm

Many, especially the ringleaders, are there to enrich themselves at our expense.

And what's their excuse? It goes something like this:

"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men [and women] in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it".

Frédéric Bastiat