New Kelly Loeffler ad claims multimillionaire knows what "it feels like waiting on that paycheck" | The richest member of Congress is worth between $800 million and $1 billion, according to Forbes

First you are born or marry into an obscenely wealthy family, you then suddenly become insanely wealthy yourself based solely on your own merit (/s) and then become coronated as CEO of a company that's owned and or created by said family.

After all of that hard work, you work even more diligently and run for public office. You do this purely out of love for the least amongst us. If you can't win an election, (because the pleb voters are clearly ingrates) You start a nonprofit advocacy group in Delaware so you can funnel your wealth to phony politicians who undermine your opponents with impunity.

Rinse and repeat some variation of this process until you die in a comfortable memory foam bed, developed by NASA, at a resort somewhere far away from the mess. Let the little people sort out the aftermath.

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