This is something that can happen to you.The following couldn't happen to a congressman or United States Senator. Most people are unaware of it, but for decades politicians have exempted current and future members from most of the laws they pass. Asset forfeiture, for one.If cops nail a senator peddling cocaine out of his Mercedes by a schoolyard, his car can't be seized but your car and even your house can be seized.As you read this do you feel under hypnosis?If you try to get a politician prosecutedfor drug dealing and a conviction but you couldn't seize his assets the way your car or house would be seized.His fellow politicians might just censor him or expel him from congress and, at the same time, arrange his immunity from prosecution.But you couldn't seize his assets for drug dealing or any other of the two hundred offenses for which they can seize yours.Politicians have their own retirement fund They pay no social security taxes.They rob social security to finance other programs.Their pensions are safe.Recent events have brought to light a deep distrust of congress by the American people.

They exempt themselves from health care plans they intend to force upon you, so that some day you'll have to wait months for things like gall bladder surgery, but they get the care they need on demand.Somehow, we've allowed ourselves to be ruled by the greediest and most envious among us.