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Obama Hikes Post-Presidency Payments (Obama proposed hikes for fiscal years 2016, 2017)
The Washingon Free Beacon ^ | March 17, 2016 | Morgan Chalfant

Posted on 03/18/2016 7:53:46 AM PDT by Kaslin

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1 posted on 03/18/2016 7:53:46 AM PDT by Kaslin
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it’s just paper!!!

Burn the whole ####ing system down to the ground and start over. Figuratively speaking, of course.


2 posted on 03/18/2016 7:56:28 AM PDT by dp0622
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To: Kaslin

No conflict of interest here.
Nothing to see, move along.


3 posted on 03/18/2016 7:57:18 AM PDT by BuffaloJack (Slavery will continue to exist and thrive as long a Islam continues to exist.)
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To: Kaslin
We get the poorest candidates for the presidency because only pathological characters want the job. Would more money get better candidates? No. That's not what they're there for. It's hopeless and they just get worse and worse.

Who could have imagined Clinton or Bush dynasties even fifty years ago? Maybe the fathers, I suppose. Now look at the Democrat candidates; Hillary and Bernie. One a corrupt imbecile. The other a Communist imbecile.

It's really hard not to be pessimistic about the direction things are taking.

4 posted on 03/18/2016 7:58:32 AM PDT by johniegrad
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To: Kaslin

But there’s no COLA this year and several other years during his presidency for Seniors receiving Social Security or federal and postal retirees, most of whom live on modest retirement checks and many of whom are not eligible for Social Security because their work years are federal time. If they do have enough quarters of eligibility to qualify for Social Security, the Government Pension Offset mandates a 60 percent reduction of whatever Social Security they might receive and perhaps a total reduction. In other words, not even a crummy one percent increase for seniors retired under this system or seniors receiving only Social Security.


5 posted on 03/18/2016 8:05:52 AM PDT by Ciexyz ("You know who gets hurt? The people who worked hard, lived frugally, and saved their money." - Trump)
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To: Kaslin

Anyone surprised??


6 posted on 03/18/2016 8:06:45 AM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: johniegrad
One a corrupt imbecile. The other a Communist imbecile.

I get it that these two are imbeciles but what I don't get is why are there so many in the voting world who are willing to support these two imbeciles????

7 posted on 03/18/2016 8:07:25 AM PDT by eeriegeno (<p>)
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To: Kaslin

Why do Millionaires need tax payer’s hard earned money


8 posted on 03/18/2016 8:07:49 AM PDT by butlerweave
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“Why do Millionaires need tax payer’s hard earned money”

Wow, you get the award for the most racist statement ever uttered in the history of this universe and the five closest parallel ones


9 posted on 03/18/2016 8:13:13 AM PDT by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
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To: eeriegeno

Well, the short answer is that Democrats have to vote for somebody. And for whatever reason, leading Democrats stepped aside, to try to make it easy for Hillary to have a coronation at her convention.

Nobody really thought that Bernie Sanders, Martin O’Malley, etc. would be serious competition for Hillary for the nomination. I think many are surprised that Bernie has done as well as he has.


10 posted on 03/18/2016 8:13:25 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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Why do Millionaires need tax payer’s hard earned money

They don't. I'd like to see if there was some way of motivating more talented people to run for these offices. As it stands now, we tend to get power hungry people with limited abilities and little real world experience.

To get there, these politicians have to endure a level of public scrutiny not imagined by the fathers.

It would be nice to have better candidates with real world experience running for office. But even those few people with success in other areas who may want to serve charitably in government have to expose themselves to the nastiest set of conditions to do so.

I don't know what the incentives might be for folks like that but I doubt it's going to be money. So I don't see this move by Obama as being anything productive except to his pocketbook.

11 posted on 03/18/2016 8:17:30 AM PDT by johniegrad
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To: Kaslin

In January isn’t the number of former presidents going to go from three to four? I would assume the extra money is for that.


12 posted on 03/18/2016 8:21:04 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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I'm sorry, but there is no President that deserve a pension "inflation adjustment"/increase that is greater than the annual salary of someone working for minimum wage in this country.

Just the incremental increase is enough to employee nearly two people at minimum wage.

I know THEIR solution would be, "You're right. We need to increase the minimum wage!"

I say, out with the cost increase.

13 posted on 03/18/2016 8:21:45 AM PDT by cincinnati65
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To: Don Corleone
Anyone surprised??

No. Since the number of former presidents is increasing then I expect the funding for them has to go up.

14 posted on 03/18/2016 8:22:11 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: Kaslin
resident Obama . . .

I see what you did there.

15 posted on 03/18/2016 8:23:22 AM PDT by Hoodat (Article 4, Section 4)
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why on earth would we the tax payers give a raise to this jackass who belongs in jail for what he has done to us and this country? This is beyond hubris, as usual, he wants to rub our noses in to what he's done to us.
16 posted on 03/18/2016 8:34:10 AM PDT by drypowder
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To: dp0622
Burn the whole ####ing system down to the ground and start over. Figuratively speaking, of course.

You've no idea how perilously close I came to responding to that with "speak for yourself".

17 posted on 03/18/2016 8:35:45 AM PDT by Samwell Tarly
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To: drypowder

That is what I want to know too.


18 posted on 03/18/2016 8:39:20 AM PDT by Kaslin (He needed theThe l ignorant to reelect him. He got them and now we have to pay the consequences)
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To: Kaslin
Additionally, the bills would cut each pension by a dollar for every dollar the former president earns over $400,000 in the private sector in a given year.

They should also cut out some of that staff requirement. Make the mopes answer their own damn mail.

19 posted on 03/18/2016 8:41:15 AM PDT by glorgau
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To: Hoodat
yup and I have done this since January 20, 2009. I just pray that I don't have to continue with it, if Hillary Rodham Clinton is elected as the 45th occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave
20 posted on 03/18/2016 8:45:49 AM PDT by Kaslin (He needed theThe l ignorant to reelect him. He got them and now we have to pay the consequences)
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