Posted on 04/03/2013 4:18:01 PM PDT by SkyPilot
The New York Times reports:
President Obama plans to return 5 percent of his salary to the Treasury in solidarity with federal workers who are going to be furloughed as part of the budget cutting process known as sequester, an administration official said Wednesday.
The voluntary move would be retroactive to March 1 and apply through the rest of the calendar year, the official said. The White House came up with the 5 percent figure to approximate the level of automatic spending cuts to non-defense federal agencies that took effect that day.
Politico adds:
"The salary for the president, as with members of Congress, is set by law and cannot be changed," the official said. "However, the president has decided that to share in the sacrifice being made by public servants across the federal government that are affected by the sequester, he will contribute a portion of his salary back to the Treasury."
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So let me get this correct, obama is going to return 5% of his salary and....
tax payer paid unlimited entertainment budget
tax payer paid unlimited travel/vacations
tax payer paid the best health care in the know universe
tax payer paid room and board
tax payer paid transportation
Well well well how magnanimous.
Its is better than nothing. No, it is nearly nothing.
We foot the bill as his kids go on 2 Spring vacation trips.
Symbolism over substance.
Agreed.
In full disclosure, I felt the same way when morons were offering to "pay" for White House tours.
Symbolism over substance.
For the low paid GS worker, the political theater does not pay their kids medical insurance, car payment, or the rent.
Ask Sean Hannity or Donald Trump about those people affected by the Sequester, and they want to change the subject - fast.
HEY MORON, PARK THE JET...AS STARTERS!!!!!
Check this out:
Barack Obama Will Return $16666.67 in Salary Due to Sequestration
Time changed its headline to now read: "Barack Obama Will Return Five Percent of Salary Due to Sequestration"
I like the 666 headline better.
I want to see his “job benefits” taxed as income. This extends to his spouse and her ‘free’ vacations.
Great! More Obamafoams fo da peeple!
Wooo a big $20,000 cut. Hope he can get by okay...
Lol!
That man is a saint.
No one suffers over this more than he does
Is it time to go golfing in CA again ? :)
These uber-grifter nobamas are beyond disgusting. Shouldn’t they be in prison?
I know what you mean
We have to take away their guns first and turn their kids against the Bible and to perversion instead and then it will be easy, assuming they don't use their guns to end it all when we (pro-bamas) take everything from them they believe in.
I would not put it past this joke of a president.
Big FREKIN’ damn deal. At least 30% of mine is taken under protest just like everyone else’s.
If it were not for that he wouldn’t have any salary.
How about he gives back 47% and let the fools that voted for him pay the rest?
Yup. Join the club.
The 47% figure reminds me that almost half of our nation does not pay Federal taxes - and in fact, they receieve a welfare check called the Earned Income Tax Credit.
These people are getting a check up to $6 grand for occupying the planet.
When I googled Earned Income Tax Credit, this picture came up!
The Lib/progs dismiss as as the use "right-wing"---a handy paintbrush with which liberals tar conservatves. They cunningly label the rest of us "right-wing" b/c in liberal-land, "right-wing" is code for "horrid" things like "judgementalism," "moral certitude," and, "religious piety."
The snide Lib/progs dismiss us as lacking the left's "enlightened values" — reason, tolerance, diversity, equality.
Quoting the left's intellectual mentor, author, Saul Alinsky: "They do not have a fixed truth -- truth to them is relative and changing..... they are free from the shackles of dogma." (from Rules for Radicals dedicated to Satan).
Ia anyone really surprised at his arrogance and hypocrisy?
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