You may be right about some others, but they are few and far between. They are not your average Joe nor are they supposed to work for the average Joe. They only employ the average...they are the employers. Also, either they produce or they are history. Politicians, Congress or whatever you want to call them are supposed to be working representing us....not feathering their own nests at our expense. We are supposed to be their employers. My whole point about taking their obscene retirement is that only those who truly want to be representatives of the people would go there. Voting out the whole bunch would be a moot point. I certainly don't consider what they get for retirement and bennies to be "chump change", either. Most of us do not get all of that and what we do get, we certainly had to work well over 20 years, not 2, 4, or whatever few years it is for them to be assured of it for life. We also had to show up for work consistently, not just whenever we felt like it. We had to do our jobs or we would be free to seek employment elsewhere, not just be counted as present for the record.