"Perhaps the senior senator from Massachusetts should spend a little more time in the private sector." <--This is really the core of the issue. We are ruled by a wealthy class of oligarchs who haven't the faintest idea what it's like to be poor.

Our election system has developed into a contest that only the rich (or those with extremely rich friends) can afford to enter. And once in office, these politicians mysteriously become even wealthier--far beyond what their Congressional salaries would account for.

These people don't even have a lens available to look through that would let them understand poverty. To them, the poor are nothing more than a faceless class to be exploited for votes. They have perfected the art of pretending to care about the poor, while crafting policies that sound "compassionate" but *keep* people poor, not merely for the present, but for generations to come.

Perhaps, rather than term limits for political office, we need wealth limits: no one who has ever, at any point in their life, had an income of 6 figures should be eligible for office.

But such laws will never be made--just as simplified tax laws will never be created--because those in power will do anything to hang onto it.