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23 years ago
She was seen recently on the senate floor
speaking against the high salaries of company CEO's.....

Hillary Rodham Clinton, as a New York State Senator, now comes under this fancy "Congressional Retirement and Staffing Plan," which means that even if she never gets reelected, she STILL receives her Congressional salary until she dies.

If Bill outlives her, he then inherits HER salary until HE dies. He is already getting his Presidential salary until he dies. If Hillary outlives Bill, she also gets HIS salary until she dies. Guess who pays for that? WE DO!
It's common knowledge that in order for her to
establish NY residency, they purchased a million
dollar-plus house in upscale Chappaqua, New York.
Makes sense. They are entitled to Secret Service
protection for life. Still makes sense.

Here is where it becomes interesting. Their mortgage payments hover at around $10,000 per month. BUT, an extra residence HAD to be built within the acreage to house the Secret Service agents.

The Clintons charge the Federal government $10,000 monthly rent for the use of that extra residence, which is just about equal to their mortgage payment. This means that we, the taxpayers, are paying the Clinton's salary, mortgage, transportation, safety and security,
as well as the salaries for their 12 man staff -- and this is all perfectly legal!

When she runs for President, will you vote for her?
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Lowman
23 years ago
Is she watching Bill dance naked??
Mr.Mean
23 years ago
He's showing her his humidor.
osage
23 years ago
Now you know why Paula Jones didn't look so bad to "Slick Willie".
E-Chick
23 years ago
ewww...I just shuddered...imagine waking up next to her?
Robby
23 years ago
I just hope we don't have to keep paying either of them too much longer...
eleltea
23 years ago
Looks more like her idol Elanor all the time, just not quite as pretty.
Slimboli
23 years ago
... NOW who would fault him for 'cheating' on her?
E-Chick
23 years ago
Being haggard or ugly is no excuse for a cheatin' spouse...he married her ugly...it's HIS fault...
Robby
23 years ago
Beauty is only skin deep. UGLY GOES RIGHT DOWN TO THE BONE!!!
Tobasco
23 years ago
She is a disrespectful bitch, a loser, a phoney, and arrogant. Other than that she is OK! Hehe! Just my opinion.

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Spiny Norman
23 years ago
Don't know how I missed this one.......

From Snopes.com

Claim: The Clintons are charging rent to the Secret Service agents assigned to protect them.

Status:
>False.

Example: [Collected on the Internet, 2001]


Just in case your blood pressure wasn't up enough . . .

As you know, the Clintons had to establish residence in New York for Hillary to run for the Senate. So they bought that big house-BUT there was no place for Secret Service which has statuary responsibility to protect the First Family.

So, a special 'safe area' was built.

NOW, the Clintons are charging them rent! It just happens that their rent is about same amount as their mortgage payment!

In short, we taxpayers pay for the Secret Service addition, AND the Clinton's mortgage! Such a deal, eh? What will it take for the American public to wake up?

Don't you just feel like you've been suckered again, fellow taxpayers?

I say let's pass this info throughout the length and breadth of this Nation to shake the American people into a heightened state of anger upon knowing they have been literally raped during their long sleep by no other than those trustees they have appointed to look after their interests . . .



Variations:

A shorter, less vehement version terminates after ". . . we taxpayers pay for the Secret Service addition, AND the Clinton's mortgage!" with "Perfectly legal. Bet that makes your day."

Some versions arrive prefaced with "From a Fox News source" heading.

Origins: The piece quoted above began circulating on the Internet in November 2000. One hardly knows what to make of backfence gossip so inelegantly crafted that its unintentional humor is as striking as what we're supposed to be hopping mad about. The piece is worth a read if only for its ". . . the Secret Service which has statuary responsibility to protect the First Family" line. (What, the Secret Service has to stand really, really still? Or are lantern-jawed agents charged with running about gardens to shoo away diarrheal pigeons?)

All humor aside, this is a blood-boiler; full of sound and fury, but signifying nothing. It's gossip, plain and simple; a dirty little story dumped onto the Internet to further discredit a President and First Lady some don't like.

The Secret Service is notorious for its reluctance to discuss even mundane aspects of how it carries out its duties, so authoritative information about the setup of the Clinton home in New York state is hard to come by. However, around the time of the Chappaqua
purchase, the press estimated that a permanent, taxpayer-funded security system worth more than $1 million would have to be installed to adequately protect the President. Security measures of this level are not specific to the Clintons; the homes of all Presidents are treated this way, as (to a lesser extent) are the homes of former Presidents. In each case the costs of installation and maintenance for the security systems comes from public funds, because the protection of First Families is viewed as a right and proper charge upon the nation.

The Clintons' home in Chappaqua is served by the White Plains office of the Secret Service, which was already well-staffed before the Clintons' home purchase (largely because many consulates maintain houses in the area). The arrival of the First Family shifted the office's workload from 90% investigative and 10% protective to 80% protective and 20% investigative. The office was there before the Clintons bought into the neighborhood, and it will continue to be there even if the Clintons leave.

In December 2000, the Clintons took possession of another house, this one a $2.85 millon home in Washington, D.C., a stone's throw from famed Embassy Row. Though White House press releases refer to the Clintons as "residents of Chappaqua, New
York" and emphasize the house is "for Mrs. Clinton's use while the Senate is in session," security renovations will have to be made to this house as well even if only the former First Lady uses the place. (Former Presidents can get $200,000 in security
improvements at a second home, and more with Congressional approval, which usually is just a formality.)

Bill Clinton and his wife are the last to be afforded lifetime Secret Service protection. In 1997, Congress changed the rules governing protection of former Presidents, limiting future ex-Chief Executives to only ten years' worth of protection after they leave office.

The Clintons have always been subject to rumors of the "Slick Willy" variety -- that is, ones which play upon a recurrent theme of their taking advantage of loopholes and benefits they've a legal, but not moral, right to. In the world of popular lore, they are often
perceived as candy grabbers, greedy little children set loose in an enormous sweets shop funded by the taxpayer. This latest rumor is another of this kind, an expression of widely-held public opinion. It's gossip, but it's what the public is thinking, set down in
the form of a story.

There was a kernel of truth underlying the gossip here, but that kernel has been so distorted that it hardly qualifies as the truth any more. As Lloyd Grove reported in The Washington Post:

It is a standard arrangement that the Secret Service provide payment to homeowners for space used by the agency in such situations. The Clintons did not take it upon themselves to "charge the Secret Service rent."

The amount provided is based on a government formula, not set by the homeowner. In the Clintons' case, this amount is $1,100. (Note that this figure was not chosen by the Clintons, and it is well short of their monthly mortgage payment.)

Most importantly, although regulations call for the payment of this amount, the Clintons have not accepted any money from the Secret Service.
Robby
23 years ago
Spiney, I’m curious, do you ever post anything from Snopes discrediting liberals making baseless accusations against conservatives? I don’t post articles from other sites, (like newsmax or other conservative sites) not saying you shouldn’t or that there’s anything wrong per se, I’m just wondering if you’re an equal opportunity poster of this type of information. I know that Rick only slams Bush, I think you’re probably in that same genera, but I’m not sure. Do you believe Hillary is right up there with mother Theresa? And it’s all “a vast right wing conspiracy?” Like the whole blue dress thing? Isn’t that what she said at the time and when she came out with that manure?
Robby
23 years ago
Dirt on Hill, from Feb:
http://www.newsmax.com/showinside.shtml?a=2003/2/4/91052 

Two weeks ago Sen. Clinton said she was "very excited" about her Armed Services appointment, acknowledging that it would give her a louder voice to "criticize or praise" President Bush, according to the New York Post.

"As I learn more about the operations of our various military services," she added, "what I have to say may be better grounded."

Clinton's newfound access to the national security secrets of the Bush administration could also give her ammunition to further her political attacks. Less than a week after her Armed Services appointment, for instance, the New York Democrat accused the Bush White House of "mishandling" the North Korean nuclear crisis and alleged that Bush had ignored warnings from her husband's national security team about the threat posed by Osama bin Laden.

Our Air Force source sees trouble ahead once Sen. Clinton starts exerting her influence over military operations.

"While she and her husband were in office, my colleagues and I were outraged about the people we were directed to 'read in' to our military's most secret programs," the highly trusted veteran revealed, noting that "many of these people were not fit to receive SECRET clearances."
RICKAMAVEN
23 years ago
RDC

it's perfectly ok to dislike her, but you may put any comgressman or senator's, conservative, democrat, independents's picture and the information is the same.
dole, who i like get.s i believe two different pensions, both from the government and his wife get's 2 different pensions also.
RICKAMAVEN
23 years ago
Robby

true, bush is my "magnificent obsession" but i did post some unkind things about gore.

this one confuses me
"While she and her husband were in office, my colleagues and I were outraged about the people we were directed to 'read in' to our military's most secret programs," the highly trusted veteran revealed, noting that "many of these people were not fit to receive SECRET clearances." who are my colleagues and i.


i have a true war story about secret clearances from my repetoire of true actual case histories of pvt,
e-2, richard b miller. it's called the day they thought i was a communist spy.

do you think i just started raising hell?

Fatshotbud
23 years ago
Bet I could put a little sparkle into her eyes.
Robby
23 years ago
hey, we're all allowed our opinions, that's what's so great about this country. If everyone felt as I do, or everyone supported the same ideas, I think something in us would die. I enjoy the banter, sometimes gets out of hand on both sides, but I think in general, it's kept in check. It will be interesting to see how things heat up when we gear up for the elections...
RICKAMAVEN
23 years ago
Robby

you are correct of course.

i have started my pre election campaigne against bush. i expect he will be elected this time.

the question is, having been appointed the first time is he going to be allowed to run in 2008 having been elected only once.
Charlie
23 years ago
They all drain the public teat(tit) just some like the Clintons, do it a little more to their advantage.

Charlie

PS She is an ugly bitch and always will be an ugly bitch!
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