Quote:The economy may still be struggling to break out in much of the country, but not in Washington, where local federal spending has doubled over the past decade, boosting federal agency employment and contract spending. Lawyers and lobbyists have rolled in from anywhere and everywhere. The local unemployment rate of 5.5% lies well below the national average. It’s also where median household income levels are the highest in the country.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomvanriper/...-counties/

http://www.forbes.com/pictures/eddf45kjm...-the-most/


5 in Northern VA

1 in Maryland

1 in NM at Los Alamos labs

Yup. Been pointing this out for a decade. DC is gilded...at the expense of Middle America.

But, Middle America keeps electing the people that fleece them.

DC is its own welfare state for bureaucrats.

DC is in another world. They do not even have a clue what our problems are.
Streets in DC are lined with Gold.........and Red Tape.

(11-04-2013 01:44 PM)DrTorch Wrote:  Yup. Been pointing this out for a decade. DC is gilded...at the expense of Middle America.

But, Middle America keeps electing the people that fleece them.

So much wisdom packed into so few words.

Washington is becoming like the capital in "The Hunger Games".

(11-04-2013 01:44 PM)DrTorch Wrote:  But, Middle America keeps electing the people that fleece them.

This.

As long as it continues to be true, nothing (of any consequence) will really change. Things will just continue on the same basic path they're on now.