1858 Con-gress

It's no wonder every time someone conducts a poll, the least favored entity in the U.S. Government is Congress. And yet the same people keep getting elected. Perhaps because even when they're lining their own pockets, they continue to con us as they bring home the bacon. Con-gress indeed.
Like the congressman from the state that makes tanks. The military keeps saying we don't need anymore stinkin' tanks. The congressman keeps putting in orders. The tank factory is in his jurisdiction.
Hey... tanks are stimulus too.
And hey hey, the tank makers contribute to lots of other congressmen's campaigns.
Must be why during the recession years, from 2007-2010, the median estimated net worth of members of congress rose 5% while regular american's median household net worth dropped 39%.
And that includes congresspeople who didn't vote on tanks.
That's not even the whole story. The wealthiest one-third of congress saw their net worth increase 14%. That's a spread of 53% in case you don't have a calculator because your net worth dropped 39%.
That's just on the financial side of the "why we don't like congress" equation. There's also the "What-the-heck?" side. A congressman on the House Committee of Science, Space and Technology, Representative Paul Brown from Georgia, has dismissed evolution, big bang theory, and embryology, as "lies from the pit of hell."
'Cause you know, there are no such things as embryos. Everyone knows the stork brings babies---but only in cases of legitimate sexual, um, congress.
Still, I'm guessing if an in-vitro fertilization clinic wanted to open in his district he'd park his moral outrage long enough to take their campaign contribution, just like most of his hell-bent to get elected peers.
It would take an act of congress not to line their own pockets.
America, ya gotta love it.