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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
It seems the amount of Money spent on former presidents come from a variety of expenses paid through Government agencies for various reasons:
- They get an office and staff
- Travel expenses (former POTUS do a lot of representative stuff, it seems)
- Secret Service Protection
The bill proposes that instead of having that continue, the former POTUS would just get 200k working expenses a year as budget for everything. Which would, among other things, fuck over a lot of people working for them since there is no transition period.
Its basically like your Provider booting you out of the door, giving you three hundred dollar bills every month and then consider their support done, as opposed as you going to them with a specific reason and asking it to cover it.
edited 27th Jul '16 5:14:41 AM by 3of4
"You can reply to this Message!"Also, why is it legal in USA to demonize people publicly on tv? Like whats up with politicians calling each other really over the top bad things? Seriously, don't you guys have laws against defamation?
Freedom of speech is very important in the US.
Blind Final Fantasy 6 Let's PlayMost "cost saving measures" like that are, in reality, no such thing. You can't control costs of a few million here and there when the budget is trillions. Anything that proposes to cut costs or eliminate government waste that doesn't touch military or entitlement spending is almost certainly a poorly disguised attempt to "starve the beast" (degrade government services by denying them funding) rather than a genuine attempt to balance the budget.
Not that the Republicans have actually cared about a balanced budget in the last 20 years or so (at least).
Really from Jupiter, but not an alien.On the "there's no such thing as a pretty revolution", that's just ignorant:
List of nonviolent revolutions by era
Since I don't think I've seen it posted: An evening at the RNC with the worst people on the internet
. The Man Who Whines About Being Banned From Twitter, The Rape Advocate etc.
Also, the Anti-Defamation League has officially declared (((echoes))) as a hate symbol
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About the 'silenced': I think they are referring to things like this
, I don't know the context of it though. Of course, the DNC leaks have also thrown some fuel to it.