Who serves who??

This is not going to be a long drawn out post, just something quick that hit me the other day and I want to at least mention it. When our country was getting started and the government got implemented or was being set up, I believe we as a new nation decided to have certain individuals who live among us be chosen to represent the mass majority. The idea was and is a good one because obviously it would be a long waiting line to speak to the man in charge (or woman in charge someday ). The problem is that over time those who get elected wind up having us serve them somehow or another. They give themselves raises and take pricey vacations, drive expensive cars, eat high dollar foods and who knows what else they do with all that money, meanwhile we, the people who have to trust them, fall down and can't get back up due to recessions and the rise in prices on almost everything except our wages. Maybe I just expect too much from a government that was instituted to serve and protect the people and it seems that more and more of the general public are losing their jobs, homes and such and the Senators and Congressmen continue getting raises and bigger vacations. Someday things will turn around I think, just not sure how or when it will happen.