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Bill Clinton budgeted to receive nearly $1 million in taxpayer money in 2014
By Bill McMorris
Published June 24, 2014
Washington Free Beacon
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An April Congressional Research Service (CRS) report shows that the Government Services Administration (GSA), which is in charge of supporting federal disbursements, budgeted $950,000 for former president Bill Clinton in the 2014 budget.
Clinton will collect a $201,000 pension in 2014, a figure four times larger than the median family income in the United States. The Clintons have received a total of $15,938,000 in federal money since 2001.
Hillary Clinton recently described the poverty her family experienced upon exiting the White House while promoting her book. They were �dead broke,� Hillary said, adding that she and her husband �struggled to, you know, piece together the resources for mortgages for houses, for Chelsea�s education, you know, it was not easy.�
Clinton�s pension is just a small portion of the costs the former president will incur over the next year. GSA budgeted $450,000 to pay for Clinton�s office space, the highest total of the four living presidents.
CRS noted that America has not always taken financial care of their former heads of state. Harry S. Truman, for example, died in poverty in his Missouri home after leaving the White House.http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...-taxpayer-money-in-2014/?intcmp=trending
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Houses? If you are paying for houses, you don't need my sympathy or money. Poor bastards.
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my... how far down the rung .... has gone the average joe...
I work harder than a ugly stripper....
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Presidents leaving office should only get their pension. Zip, zero, nada anything else.
We don't 'owe' them a damn thing.
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Presidents leaving office should only get their pension. Zip, zero, nada anything else.
We don't 'owe' them a damn thing. Amen. Why are we paying Slick's office expenses too? What do they think he does out of that office? He runs a business out of it!!!!!!!!!!! 
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No wonder so many dumb [bleep] want to run for the office. The best damn job any of them will ever have in their life times.
Don't vote knothead, it only encourages them. Anonymous
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Take for example the guy in Minnesota that was appointed to complete Paul Wellstone's term after he died in a plane crash up in Hibbing while campaigning...
he served less than a month, yet he gets FULL senatorial retirement benefits...
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my... how far down the rung .... has gone the average joe... I am not so worried about the average Joe (except to think that he's getting the short end of the stick in every direction from the pols.) This is the US. There's SUPPOSED to be income inequality. It reflects relative contributions to society. Years ago a famous college English prof told us that the fact that poets were poor pretty much evidenced what they were really worth in the community. Obviously there are injustices. Some jerk rap artist make piles. A corporate raider makes even more. But the very worst injustice in my book is how these politicians all become millionaires and cannot be dislodged. The examples here are just a starting point.
Norman Solberg
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Bill trying to convince that Hillary is "jes reg'lar folks".
Cleanup on aisle five: Bubba tries to help Hillary - Former President Bill Clinton tried to defend his wife�s claim that the family, which has raked in an estimated $155 million since leaving the White House in 2001, is not �truly well off� and crediting her rapid rise into the economic stratosphere to �hard work.� The former president, appearing at an event hosted by the family�s quarter-billion dollar foundation in the swing state of Colorado, defended Hillary Clinton, the 2016 Democratic frontrunner, saying that she was connected to ordinary concerns, in part because the family goes grocery shopping. �We go to our local grocery store on the weekend,� the former president told David Gregory, an NBC News host who was part of the Clinton event. �We talk to people in our town. We know what�s going on. The real issue is, if you�ve been fortunate enough to be successful, are you now out of touch and insensitive to the agonizing struggles other people are facing? That�s the real issue.� When they do go to the market, the Clintons aren�t likely encountering much in the way of �agonizing� economic issues. The Clinton�s hometown, Chappaqua, N.Y., was recently ranked as having the fifth-wealthiest Zip Code in the nation. The former president did say that his wife�s claims of hardship were not the �most adept.�
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This wont matter when she gets the nod from her party and the media clams up about anything negative about her.
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Presidents leaving office should only get their pension. Zip, zero, nada anything else.
We don't 'owe' them a damn thing. If they serve as some sort of representative of the US, then they should be paid for that. But that ought to be a specific job, for which there is a specific budget. If the president is on the government payroll and we're paying for his "office", then he should not be getting big bucks for speaking engagements; that's double dipping.
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my... how far down the rung .... has gone the average joe... I am not so worried about the average Joe (except to think that he's getting the short end of the stick in every direction from the pols.) This is the US. There's SUPPOSED to be income inequality. It reflects relative contributions to society. Years ago a famous college English prof told us that the fact that poets were poor pretty much evidenced what they were really worth in the community. Obviously there are injustices. Some jerk rap artist make piles. A corporate raider makes even more. But the very worst injustice in my book is how these politicians all become millionaires and cannot be dislodged. The examples here are just a starting point. Need to get this message to the Roman Pope and a few of his Cardinals. Maybe, just maybe, the Church can give all that payoff money for sexual abuse to the poor instead of to lawyers and settlements.
The degree of my privacy is no business of yours.
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I hold the view that when the bastards are out of public employ they should be getting absolutely nothing, just like the rest of us when we change jobs.
The mongrels here pull the exact same stunts.
These are my opinions, feel free to disagree.
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I hold the view that when the bastards are out of public employ they should be getting absolutely nothing, just like the rest of us when we change jobs.
The mongrels here pull the exact same stunts.
If they could only get Social Security based on years of work, you can bet that they wouldn't put that program at risk -- as they threaten to do from time to time.
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I understand the logic...
but
this really sucks
cause we are twice porked
thrice if you count Hildy
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