"Montblack" wrote in message
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("john smith" wrote)
I am simply amazed that we are spending hundreds of millions of dollars
to
protect people we vote out of office every four to six years because of
their incompetence.


In one of the last elections (1998) the re-election number for members of
Congress was something like 98%.

(Found it)
http://www.thisnation.com/question/016.html


It's been that way since the 1940's.