Above The Law

Posted by Guest Blogger "Sayf Maslul" 

By "Steve Kroft" 
Courtesy Of "60 Minutes"


"Congressmen and Senators are expending much of their time and their energy raising the millions of dollars in campaign funding they'll need to hold onto a job that pays $174,000 a year. Few are doing it for the salary and all will say they're doing it to serve the public. 

But there are other benefits: power, prestige and the opportunity to become a Washington insider with access to information and connections that no one else has.

In an environment of privilege, where rules that govern the rest of the country, don't always apply to them.
Most former Congressmen and Senators manage to leave Washington, if they ever leave Washington, with more money in their pockets than they had when they arrived." [Steve Kroft, 60 Minutes]