Vanishing middle class? Rick Perry may know where the middle class profits have gone. He has a chart !!

Part-Time Citizen Congress, Accountability, and Transparency
When the first Congress convened in 1789 following the ratification of the Constitution, federal lawmakers were paid $6 a day, and an annual salary of $1,500 was not authorized until 1815.⁷ Had Congressional salaries merely risen with inflation, a member of Congress today would make less than $20,000 each year.⁸ Instead, annual Congressional salaries have risen almost 10 times faster than inflation and now total $174,000 – more than 3.5 times higher than the country’s median household income of $49,445 in 2010.⁹

To add insult to injury, last year Washington, D.C., was crowned as the nation’s highest-income metropolitan region – beating out Silicon Valley and New York City – fueled mainly by its army of “attorneys, consultants, lobbyists, and outside government contractors.”¹⁰

Source: Rick Perry.org