President's annual salary: $400,000.
Annual retirement pay of former presidents: $180,000.
Annual salary of Speaker of the House: $223,500.
Annual salary of the majority and minority leaders: $193,400.
Annual salary of 532 other members of congress: $174,000.
Not too shabby when one considers that these "public servants" also get annual "cost-of living" raises (that they deny to recipients of Social Security retirement benefits) and have virtually all of their hefty (and often bogus) expenses (including sumptuous vacations) paid by the taxpayers. The system enables them to live almost entirely at the expense of the public treasury.
(Average Americans earn from $33,000 to $77,000 a year.)
And those large living inside the D.C. Beltway aren't just to the elected elitists. Their staff members share in the public treasury's largess. So too do members of the White House staff -- click on this chart to enlarge it for viewing:
No wonder they're clueless
about why we serfs are
madder than hell.
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