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There is a graphic moving around facebook at the moment. You might know one of the 21,629 people who share this. The graphic (which must be retyped) says:
Salary of retired US Presidents…..$450,000 FOR LIFE
Salary of House/Senate members …..$174,000 FOR LIFE
Salary of Speaker of the House……$223,500 FOR LIFE
Salary of Majority/Minority Leaders…..$193,400 FOR LIFE
Average salary of a soldier DEPLOYED IN AFGHANISTAN……$38,000
Average income for seniors on SOCIAL SECURITY……$12,000
I think we found where the cuts should be made! If you agree .. Pass it on!
PG made a comment …. I know where the cuts should be made.
BRING THE SOLDIER DEPLOYED IN AFGHANISTAN HOME TODAY!
The money paid to unpopular politicians is an easy target for rabble rousers. What they don’t tell you is the profits being produced by killing women and children in Afghanistan. It is estimated that it takes $1,000,000 per soldier per year to fight a war. Where does that $962,000 go?
Before we go any further with this, it should be noted that most statistics are lies. PG does not know where the originator of this graphic got the numbers. The $1,000,000 per soldier per year number is also suspect. Creative accounting is an art form in Washington, and the truth is we just don’t know how much those crooks are taking home.
The pensions paid to former government officials are puny, compared to the money they make in crooked deals. Newt Gingrich is a one man profit center. ” Gingrich defended his actions by stating that his lobbying is not technically lobbying because it “benefits the country at large.” (PG was chatting with a friend once. She was self employed, by entertaining gentlemen callers. She called it consulting.)
Since leaving the White House, Bill and Hillary Clinton have made truckloads of money. Hillary tried to buy her own term in the White House. After she lost to ace fundraiser BHO, Hillary wrote off $13,200,000 she loaned her campaign. “The senator and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, released income tax returns during her presidential campaign that showed the couple earned $109 million in eight years. Their annual income rose to $20.4 million in 2007 from $420,000 in 1999. Almost half the Clintons’ income during those years, $51.9 million, came from the former president’s speeches.”
Pictures for this feature are from The Library of Congress