The current economic climate is not all that comfortable for most Americans.

Few here in Texarkana, for example, are likely to receive four-figure pay raises this year. The same can be said for average Americans from North to South, coast to coast.

The same can’t be said of elected representatives, though.

Members of Congress—those fine folks who gave us the $700 billion bailout of the wall Street fat cats who got us into this mess—for years exempted themselves from the laws they imposed on most Americans. And they have exempted themselves from feeling the e...

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