Posted on 01/18/2017 3:32:48 PM PST by detective
on his final Tuesday in office, appointed soon-to-be former staffers and supporters to administration posts, including senior adviser Valerie Jarrett and National Security Adviser Susan Rice....AND ON HIS FIRST DAY IN OFFICE TRUMP FIRED THEM ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!! STATING HE WAS SENT TO AND WILL DO WHAT HE WAS SENT TO DO
DRAIN THE SWAMP.
THAT SHOULD BE THE HEADLINE ON 20 JAN.
DRAIN THE SWAMP.
Privatize the Kennedy Center and Holocoust Memorial and apply the proceeds to paying down the national debt. The same with PBS, Amtrack, the US Postal Service, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, the student loan program, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, and many more organizations and agencies sucking on the taxpayer teat.
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OH YEAH
time to end that era.
Time to end the error. One big ass mistake.
This memorial gives Ben Rhodes a paying job in DC which requires no work but will give him the “cover” to work with Obama in DC on other more secretive projects.
These Kennedy Center jobs give Obama staffers Valerie Jarrett and Susan Rice a paycheck requiring no work which will serve to provide “cover” andd support for them while they do their real off the books work for Obama or Obama’s boss.
Good point.
<><>Is Valerie getting a US govt pension? How many?
<><>Is she on the payrolls of other US govt agencies?
<><> Is she listed as a no-show govt contractor?
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REFERENCE--- Valerie Jarrett in the White House also pocketed
a $36K Annual Pension For Part-Time Chicago Transit job
dailycaller.com ^ | 2/17/2016 | Chuck Ross / FR Posted by rktman
Chicago is known for its L-train. But it's the gravy train that White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett prefers to ride.
In addition to the $173,922 Jarrett earns per annum as President Obama's senior adviser, she is also paid an annual pension of $35,660 for the eight years she served as chairman of the Chicago Transit Authority, according to a Chicago Sun Times investigation.
Jarrett was appointed to chairman of the agency - a part-time position - in 1995 by then-mayor Richard Daley, whose brother, William Daley, served as Obama's chief of staff. Jarrett served as the former mayor's deputy chief of staff and was appointed to numerous other positions during his term. (Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
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REFERENCE----Wonder how many transportation bonds were issued while Jarrett was at Chicago Transit? Her pension payout would pale against her hidden income from lucrative Chicago bond deals.
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CONTACT CONGRESS--DEMAND THESE AGENCIES COMMENCE INVESTIGATIONS AT ONCE:
http://www.contactingthecongress.org/
<><> FBI -- Wire Fraud Division
<><> IRS-Fraud Unit
<><> Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General,
<><> Department of Commerce’s Office of Inspector General.
<><> DOJ's Criminal Division-- Public Integrity Section
....isn’t it rich that Rhoads has been appointed to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, is this another slap in Benjamin Netanyahu’s face?? This is the man who laughed at “fooling the people”, he got the public to buy his tall tail about the Iran deal. Keep your eye on him, I wouldn’t trust him with my compost pile.
^^^^THAT^^^^
(Ping!)
Thanks, Liz.
The Congressional Research Service reports that for requests for both 2016 and 2017 fiscal years, Obama's proposed federal budget would expand funding through the Former Presidents Act. In 2017 alone, Obama wants nearly an 18% hike in expenditures… $588,000. That means $3.865,000 in appropriations will be available to spend on former Presidents! The 2016 proposed budget includes an additional $25,000 increase.
The Former Presidents Act, enacted in 1958, provides living former presidents with a pension, office staff and support, funds for travel, Secret Service protection, and mailing privileges. It also provides benefits for presidential spouses. Currently, former presidents are awarded a pension equal to the salary of cabinet secretaries, which totaled $203,700 for the 2015 calendar year and was boosted by $2,000 for the current calendar year.
Critics of the act argue that it financially supports former presidents who are not struggling. Many of them, alternatively, have gone on to profit from writing books about their time in the White House or delivering paid speaking engagements.
Former President Bill Clinton, for example, earned $132 million for delivering paid speeches between February 2001 and March 2015, according to an analysis from CNN. Clinton received $924,000 in taxpayer dollars last year by way of the Former Presidents Act.
Republicans in the House and Senate have introduced legislation that would cap annual pensions for former presidents at $200,000. 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. The measure was approved by the House in January with bipartisan support.
"It's pretty simple. You want a retirement and pension, it's there. But if you're going to go out and make enormous sums of money, then you don't need taxpayer subsidies," Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R., Utah), who introduced the bill in the House, told ABC News in an interview. "The former presidents are making gobs of money speaking and writing books, more power to them, but that doesn’t mean they need more taxpayer dollars on top of that," Chaffetz added. "It's embarrassing that they take that money."
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CONTACT CONGRESS HERE: http://www.contactingthecongress.org/
Demand Congress vote no. No more money for ex-presidents.
In other words, lumps of slime have oozed into other parts of the swamp.
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