I agree with this 101%. What they do affects our lives. So how is your life going now? Are you happy with inflation, the higher cost of everything, the continually rising National Debt, our Government dishing out money to everyone but our own needy, illegal immigration, the lack of affordable health care, and especially the low coverage of mental health care, rising taxes, and multimillionaires calling the shots on your financial future? If any of you recall the Congressional Bank Scandal, where Congressmen couldn't pay their debts to the bank on a consistent basis. They can't handle their own finances yet dings us with the IRS when we can't?
The House banking scandal broke in early 1992, when it was revealed that the US House of Representatives allowed its members to overdraw their House checking accounts without the risk of being penalized by the House bank, which was actually a clearinghouse.
The scandal also sometimes known as Rubbergate (from the expressions "rubber check" (bounced check) and "Watergate)," but the term is misleading because House checks did not bounce but were honored because the House Bank provided overdraft protection to its account holders, and the Office of the Sergeant at Arms covered the House Bank with no penalties.[1]
It is also sometimes known as the "check-kiting scandal."
The House banking scandal ultimately involved more than 450 representatives, most of whom did not break any laws. However, 22 members of Congress were singled out by the House Ethics Committee for leaving their checking accounts overdrawn for at least eight months out of a sample of 39 months:[
