With the US struggling with a recession, large companies going belly up, bailouts totalling trillions of dollars, what is congress doing in all this?  HOw are they helping the economy?

By using the Trickle down theory apparently.  They just voted themselves a $4,700 pay raise!  So I guess they think they themselves are going to spend the economy out of this recession?

When they sit an lecture CEOs on their salary and bonuses, when they sit and condemn extravagant salaries, what right do they have to "VOTE" themselves one?  The truth is that not a single CEO of a public corporation sets their salary.  The Board of Directors do.  Yet congress, who knows less, does less, and accomplishes nothing, has that power.

And they will soon be running many major corporations.  And paying their cronies millions (Franklin Raines anyone?) to run them into the ground further so that they can then bail them out with YOUR money to waste again.

There is no wonder congress has only a 9% approval rating.  One wonders how the US has almost 10% of the population as vegetables to approve of those clowns.

So much for Pelosi and Reid and their "ethical" government.  Talk about oxymoron.