"Gas, grass, or a$$, nobody rides fer free"
Posted on 07/31/2011 2:50:58 PM PDT by Nachum
The U.S. Secret Service does more than protect Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. — the agency also pays him rent.
Since April, Mr. Biden has collected more than $13,000 from the agency charged with protecting him and his family, for use of a rental cottage adjacent to the waterfront home he owns in a Wilmington, Del., neighborhood.
Mr. Biden, listed not as vice president in federal purchasing documents but as “vendor,” is eligible for up to $66,000 by the time the government contract expires in the fall of 2013, the records show.
Officials say the arrangement came about when a previous tenant moved out of the cottage and the Secret Service moved in.
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Now you know why people pay millions of dollars to get elected to a job that pays in the hundreds of thousands.
You beat me by 3 minutes!!
What an ingrate.
I believe the Clintons are doing the same thing in the Hamptons.
What waterfront home?
Dude lives off Montchanin:
In fact, now that I think of it, you would have to traipse through the Dupont property to get to river.
Bleh.
I’d rather ping to yours than post it. :)
I’ve already informed Admin Moderator to delete my thread.
I see no problem with this as long as Biden pays for the bullets in their guns and the gas in their cars while they’re working to protect his bald life.
I know I get tired of saying this, but....can you imagine if Bush did this?
Libs aren’t so anti-capitalist when they’re the ones making the “obscene” profits!
“the arrangement came about when a previous tenant moved out of the cottage and the Secret Service moved in.”
... at double the old rent I suspect.
Clinton did the same thing.
There was a question at the end of his presidency about how he was going to pay for his house in Chappaqua, NY with its $10,000 mortgage payment due each month. Clinton, you remember, never owned a home and had always lived off the taxpayer during his years of service in Arkansas. Enter Terry McAuliffe who financed the house for Clinton. Clinton then turned around and charged the Secret Service $10,000 a month rent for the use of a small gatehouse at the entrance to his property.
Clinton, continues to live off the taxpayer.
Edwin M. Donovan, special agent in charge at the Secret Service's Office of Government and Public Affairs in Washington, said the agency pays $2,200 in rent per-month, the same amount a previous tenant had paid before moving out.
April to August is five months (and I am being generous by counting Aug.), which is $11,000. Did he also charge them a first and last, or a security deposit?
Probably a smart move as he knows he and The Zero are tanking the economy.
Wow. I didn’t know that. Thanks for the info.
Compare a present politicians retirement with General Grant. He had to write his memoirs to provide for his family after his death by cancer. Grant fought the Civil war and was President of the United States. Today's politicians generally succeed in sodomizing twelve year old boys and snorting the largest trail of coke in history. What a bunch of self important nothings!
If he normally rents this cottage out I can’t say there’s anything wrong here. Otherwise it gives him a financial incentive to stay at home instead of the veep’s house.
Would you deny Mother Teresa the occasional crust of bread?
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"Informed" instead of "asked"?
Don't let that "MD" title go to your head much, do you?
You know, we threw off that yoke in the 18th century. No royalty here.
You have a job title, it does not make you royalty.
In fact, it makes you highly suspect as regards overbilling
for services, relying upon the government to pay the high dollars to you.
"Informed" the moderator indeed. HA.
Well, this will certainly endear him to the Sectet Service. The more the SS and military loathe the Fiend and Vice Fiend, the better.
Would you deny Mother Teresa the occasional crust of bread?
Biden only draws a pittance for his monumental work for "we the people?"
So what if he rents out the cabin behind his mansion for a few pennies?
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And you have a comma splice.
...in addition to other grammar errors.
I tossed those in just to attract you.
Worked like a charm.
Now, let’s see how the “I’M ROYALTY” medical tech responds.
What is wrong with you? Couldn’t get into med school?
Did you ever stop to think that maybe she lives in Maryland?
Note, though, IANAL.
"Gas, grass, or a$$, nobody rides fer free"
What the hell is your problem? Leave the good doctor alone.
VP Biteme, so cheap ! He ought to be charged the same amount for hit Secret Service protection.
Medical?
Are you clueless enough that you don’t know how to click a person’s handle to see that she’s from MD?
Or did you just assume the “MD” meant “Medical Doctor”?
VP Biteme, so cheap ! He ought to be charged the same amount for hit Secret Service protection.
Yeah, I asked that question once.
I was told not to question her highness the medical technician.
What is wrong with you?
Not a thing. Do you want to worship medical techs? Call them by a title?
Do you often find yourself looking for someone to worship in that way?
Biden is a crook.
Maybe even...just perhaps....Waldorf, Maryland...?
No...I call medical techs “Doctor” because even surgeons (i.e., medical techs) have earned that title. ;-)
Why?
The "good doctor" presumes to "tell" the moderators here what to do.
The "good doctor" presumes to use her job title in her name
in order to drag up a bit of respect she does not deserve.
Most folks would spit on that kind of elitist presumption.
Imagine if cheney did this.
I have no idea what that house is.
I used to do my morning runs by his house which is located at Monchanin and Bucks.
I'll bet you have a job title too.
Do you expect folks to call you by it as if it were your name?
"Doctors" do. They introduce themselves as "Doctor" so-and-so.
The first thing you hear from them is a lie.
Ask them to show their birth certificate.
I'll bet their name isn't really "Doctor".
Lying pukes.
You really have been a snarky SOB on the threads lately, humblegunner. Seriously dude, push away from the keyboard for a little while and go have some fun. Or have a drink. Or stop having drinks. Or whatever.
But you really need to freshen up your outlook. I am seriously just trying to help. You sound miserable in every one of your posts lately.
p.s. How's my grammar?
So let me get this straight.
Everyone's supposed to ignore your terrible syntax, rotten grammar, incoherent ramblings...
...yet when SilvieWaldorfMD -- whether she hails from from Waldorf, MD; has earned the title; or both -- fails to include a comma, you assume she is presumptuous.
Frankly, you're the one who is acting rather presumptuous.
I mean, you have a username that about innards, yet one might just as easily assume you are what's within the intestines...specifically the sigmoid colon and down to the ampulla...
Yes, your handle sure describes you well: "Spewing ____"
:-)
Good advice on my outlook.
Not so much on folks using fake royalty titles.
I’ll never waver on that. But I’ll admit I can be a bit of an ass sometimes.
Just not on this issue.
Thanks for the honest criticism. Really.
Didn’t Dolley Madison die in near-poverty also (albeit due to her ne’er-do-well son’s spending habits, but still...)
I’m going to stop pinging you, although I should have pinged you to this one.
Well, you have to put "DR" in front of the user name.
Otherwise, it's equal to a ping to an ignorant peasant.
Don't you know "Doctors" are better than you?
Look at the titles, man! Bow the hell down!
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