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Title: Why do we pay retirement pay to presidents?
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Published: Dec 7, 2011
Author: sneakypete
Post Date: 2011-12-07 10:27:58 by sneakypete
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With all this talk of cutting the budget,WHY are we still paying a VERY generous retirement check out for a position that only requires 4 years of work at the minimum and 8 years at the maximum?
Not to mention free medical care and transportation for life?
After all,it ain't like these guys are going off to life a live of poverty. They all make multi-millions giving speeches,agreeing to have their names on corporate boards,etc,etc,etc.
We should also DEMAND that Congresscritters and Senators retire on SS just like the rest of us,instead of receiving a VERY generous life-long pension and free medical care for life for just serving from 2 to 6 years minimum.
What makes them so special they don't have to live by the very laws they vote in effect?
Just putting them in the same retirement category as the rest of us would save billions. Yeah,this won't solve the budget crisis all by itself,but it would be a damn good place to start. Subscribe to *Politics and Politicians*
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The elected ones get treated like royalty after they 'retire' or are replaced.
I'm sure there are retirement tables but I've got chores to do and will depart shortly. Any idea what a president's retirement pay is after 4 years? After 8 years?
I agree with you petey but I don't see anything happening to change 'their' rules.
#2. To: sneakypete (#0)
After all,it ain't like these guys are going off to life a live of poverty.
Pensions were created for presidents because several did go off and live in poverty.
Wall Street owns the country…Our laws are the output of a system which clothes rascals in robes and honesty in rags. The [political] parties lie to us and the political speakers mislead us…Money rules. Mary Elizabeth Lease, 1890
#3. To: lucysmom (#2)
After all,it ain't like these guys are going off to life a live of poverty. Pensions were created for presidents because several did go off and live in poverty.
Not any more, they steal so much from the taxpayers nowadays a pension isn't needed for ANYBODY that is a politician!!!!
"CHANGE" you can step in..... 
My dogs have created more shovel ready jobs than the self appointed Messiah!!! Number of shallow, inadequate, hypocritical Leftards who have me on BOZO---3.......... That means I'm doing my job correctly !!!!!!!!!
#4. To: lucysmom (#2)
Pensions were created for presidents because several did go off and live in poverty.
I understand,but now ain't then. Every president since LBJ has left office as a multimillionaire.
Ain't it about time we stopped subsidizing multimillionaires? How many other jobs are there where you can retire after 4 years with full benefits and pay?
"It is impossible to talk reason with those who can only parrot Party Slogans." sneakypete Sept 2011
Stay Hungry...Stay Foolish --Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs,life-long Dim,and major Barry Soetoro supporter.
#5. To: sneakypete (#4)
How many other jobs are there where you can retire after 4 years with full benefits and pay?
Fiorina was at HP from 1999 to 2005, trashed the company and was rewarded with $20 million for her effort.
She is not unique.
Wall Street owns the country…Our laws are the output of a system which clothes rascals in robes and honesty in rags. The [political] parties lie to us and the political speakers mislead us…Money rules. Mary Elizabeth Lease, 1890
#6. To: lucysmom (#5)
Fiorina was at HP from 1999 to 2005, trashed the company and was rewarded with $20 million for her effort.She is not unique.
True,Barry is going to trash the country worse than she trashed HP,and he's going to get more money out of it,too.
"It is impossible to talk reason with those who can only parrot Party Slogans." sneakypete Sept 2011
Stay Hungry...Stay Foolish --Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs,life-long Dim,and major Barry Soetoro supporter.
#7. To: sneakypete (#6)
...Barry is going to trash the country worse than she trashed HP,and he's going to get more money out of it,too.
The country was trashed before Obama was elected, and it would take decades beyond a normal life span for Obama's retirement to reach a total of $20 million.
Wall Street owns the country…Our laws are the output of a system which clothes rascals in robes and honesty in rags. The [political] parties lie to us and the political speakers mislead us…Money rules. Mary Elizabeth Lease, 1890
#8. To: sneakypete (#0)
Why do we pay retirement pay to presidents?
To keep them from acting whorish, like M.F. Clinton.
#9. To: sneakypete (#0)
The same reason we give money to Ysrael.
Payoffs for a job well done.
Also why no POTUS gets the job in the first place unless the Praetorian Guard has Blackmail over the fucker....8D
#10. To: lucysmom (#7)
it would take decades beyond a normal life span for Obama's retirement to reach a total of $20 million.
BullBarack! He and the Wookie probably already have more than that in off-shore accounts.
Just look at Bubba Bill/Bush 2.0. He now has a estimated net worth of over 100 million bucks,and that's just the legal money he has to declare.
Not bad for a Arkansas Grifter,huh?
"It is impossible to talk reason with those who can only parrot Party Slogans." sneakypete Sept 2011
Stay Hungry...Stay Foolish --Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs,life-long Dim,and major Barry Soetoro supporter.
#11. To: sneakypete, lucysmom (#10)
BullBarack! He and the Wookie probably already have more than that in off-shore accounts.Just look at Bubba Bill/Bush 2.0. He now has a estimated net worth of over 100 million bucks,and that's just the legal money he has to declare.
Not bad for a Arkansas Grifter,h
She's talking about retirement pay or a pension if you prefer. Not other investments, dummy.
"ROTFLMAO... Perfect! She longs... for someone to Teabag her. a man that squats on top of a women's face and lowers his genitals into her mouth during sex, known as "teabagging" She aches for it"... ~~~JWpegler. Head Tea Bagger and Tea Party supporter extraordinaire, explicitly expressing his fantasies in public about other posters.
#12. To: sneakypete (#4)
I understand,but now ain't then. Every president since LBJ has left office as a multimillionaire.Ain't it about time we stopped subsidizing multimillionaires? How many other jobs are there where you can retire after 4 years with full benefits and pay?
And how many jobs reguire one's undivided attention for four years 24/7 as the world's most powerful person?
"ROTFLMAO... Perfect! She longs... for someone to Teabag her. a man that squats on top of a women's face and lowers his genitals into her mouth during sex, known as "teabagging" She aches for it"... ~~~JWpegler. Head Tea Bagger and Tea Party supporter extraordinaire, explicitly expressing his fantasies in public about other posters.
#13. To: mininggold (#11)
She's talking about retirement pay or a pension if you prefer. Not other investments, dummy.
You are the dummy because I specifically stated they didn't need a pension because of all the money they accumulate after leaving office,and I did this in the post that started this thread.
There is a reason you are a Dim.
"It is impossible to talk reason with those who can only parrot Party Slogans." sneakypete Sept 2011
Stay Hungry...Stay Foolish --Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs,life-long Dim,and major Barry Soetoro supporter.
#14. To: mininggold, *Hypocrisy and Hypocrites* (#12)
And how many jobs reguire one's undivided attention for four years 24/7 as the world's most powerful person?
So,you admire Nixon and the Bush Crime Family,and am more than happy to pay taxes to support people like that?
Or is it just because your Chocolate Messiah is in office that you are suddenly such a big fan of subsidizing multimillionaires?
"It is impossible to talk reason with those who can only parrot Party Slogans." sneakypete Sept 2011
Stay Hungry...Stay Foolish --Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs,life-long Dim,and major Barry Soetoro supporter.
#15. To: sneakypete (#14)
So,you admire Nixon and the Bush Crime Family,and am more than happy to pay taxes to support people like that?Or is it just because your Chocolate Messiah is in office that you are suddenly such a big fan of subsidizing multimillionaires?
What ex-presidents get in retirement benefits is chump change when compared to oil company execs, for instance.
Pressed on Big Oil’s supposedly low profit margins, Fox pointed out that Exxon CEO Lee Raymond’s retirement package was “$450 million dollars for doing a 90 hour job...
http://thinkprogress.org/economy.../173877/landry-oil-dream/
It doesn't seem to bother you that ...the pay package for ConocoPhillips’ top executive, Jim Mulva, went up by 25 percent last year to $17.9 million, money sucked from taxpayer subsidies and drivers’ wallets.
Wall Street owns the country…Our laws are the output of a system which clothes rascals in robes and honesty in rags. The [political] parties lie to us and the political speakers mislead us…Money rules. Mary Elizabeth Lease, 1890
#16. To: lucysmom (#15)
What ex-presidents get in retirement benefits is chump change when compared to oil company execs, for instance.
I see. Going by your value system,I guess a woman that is only gang-raped by 3 people has nothing to complain about if some other woman is gang-raped by 4 people.
That some set of standards you have,there. You must be very self-satisfied to be so moral.
"It is impossible to talk reason with those who can only parrot Party Slogans." sneakypete Sept 2011
Stay Hungry...Stay Foolish --Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs,life-long Dim,and major Barry Soetoro supporter.
#17. To: sneakypete (#16)
That some set of standards you have,there. You must be very self-satisfied to be so moral.
Those are not my standards, they're straw men of your own creation. As for the rest - why would I take satisfaction in your creation?
Wall Street owns the country…Our laws are the output of a system which clothes rascals in robes and honesty in rags. The [political] parties lie to us and the political speakers mislead us…Money rules. Mary Elizabeth Lease, 1890
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