In
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
on 05/10/2007
at 02:24 PM, "Chase, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>The President of the United States get, what, a $400,000 annual
>salary? And a tenure limited by the Constitution to 8 years maximum.
And quite a variety of perq for the rest of his life.
>Explain that!
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac. Even a failed president gets a huge
amount of payoffas and spinoff from his presidency, and the potential
for graft behind the Iron Curtain was even higher than it is here,
where it is already enormous.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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