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Ex Presidents, the gift that keeps on..............Giving? - 5/10/2012 11:31:45 AM   
Hillwilliam


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Status: offline 		Ex presidents are a wee bit expensive.

http://now.msn.com/now/0509-cost-former-presidents.aspx#scptm2

85K/year for a phone bill?

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RE: Ex Presidents, the gift that keeps on................. - 5/10/2012 11:33:57 AM   
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RE: Ex Presidents, the gift that keeps on................. - 5/11/2012 5:38:18 PM   
erieangel


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Status: offline 		This is sickening. I thought they were millionaires. Why do they tax payer dollars to pay phone bills and the like?? That money could/should be better spent helping people really hurting.

Of course it won't be. And I'm nothing but a bleeding heart liberal for suggesting such a thing.


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RE: Ex Presidents, the gift that keeps on................. - 5/11/2012 5:42:27 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Hillwilliam

85K/year for a phone bill?



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RE: Ex Presidents, the gift that keeps on................. - 5/11/2012 8:58:13 PM   
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I can't get too worked up over this. If you figure that Presidents are essentially national CEOs, they make quite a bit less than their private industry counterparts.

The Former Presidents Act, which provides for pensions and other benefits, is fairly recent (1958). It arose in large part as a way to help Harry Truman, who had modest resources.

One of the things I learned at DC's Woodrow Wilson House is that Wilson (only President to retire in the capital or be buried there) couldn't afford to buy a decent house. (I can relate!) So ten friends chipped in.

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RE: Ex Presidents, the gift that keeps on................. - 5/12/2012 1:41:38 PM   
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RE: Ex Presidents, the gift that keeps on................. - 5/12/2012 1:42:52 PM   
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ORIGINAL: erieangel

This is sickening. I thought they were millionaires. Why do they tax payer dollars to pay phone bills and the like?? That money could/should be better spent helping people really hurting.

Of course it won't be. And I'm nothing but a bleeding heart liberal for suggesting such a thing.




see and people chide me for calling them (appropriately) the gubafia.

they literally extort money from us because they control the gub! its not we the people never was! its we the politicians!

politicians support their fav biz and biz kicks back and we the people pay and pay and fucking pay for it.









Oh and do you see that 60,000? Yeh that is the number the King would use when setting up a new members of state for knights service for his feudal colonies.


but dont tell ron because it just one meaningless coincidence in a huge stack of coincidences!!!






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RE: Ex Presidents, the gift that keeps on................. - 5/12/2012 3:26:10 PM   
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Status: offline 		in the scheme of things it's a pittance. I'd rather know why exxon pays no taxes than why Bush needs 85k for a phone bill

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RE: Ex Presidents, the gift that keeps on................. - 5/12/2012 5:04:40 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Hillwilliam

Ex presidents are a wee bit expensive.

http://now.msn.com/now/0509-cost-former-presidents.aspx#scptm2

85K/year for a phone bill?


How much does the BEST security and monitoring against tapping of the line and such cost? For himself AND the Secret Service agents?

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RE: Ex Presidents, the gift that keeps on................. - 5/12/2012 5:18:27 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Mupainurpleasure

in the scheme of things it's a pittance. I'd rather know why exxon pays no taxes than why Bush needs 85k for a phone bill



its like a creeping plant.

It all springs from the same root system

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