On Mar 5, 2010, at 9:15 AM, mike wrote:
The average net worth of Senators is about 9 million, not exactly average joes.
But the more significant median is about $890,000 (for Senators and Reps in 2008). Anyone who owns a house in the metro DC area is probably worth more than that. So at least half of them probably can claim to be average Joes.
To prove your point you would also have to net out those who were already rich when they first got elected. Many of them were.
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