I know it seems premature to be worrying about 2024, but if we don't want to end up as a fascist state in the near future, planning ahead is pretty important.
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Like the whole point was to make it so ex-presidents *wouldn't have to* choose between using their status to get jobs and gigs and perks in the private sector or ending up poor because there's no way they can get a "real job" without doing that "The dignity of the office"
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But now they get all the official perks AND they milk the private sector as hard as they can in order to make 1%er money with "ex-president and celebrity" as their job and no one cares Obama gets the $200k as gravy on top of his Netflix deal etc
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The funny thing about the gravy train is the one who started it all off sitting on corporate boards was the president no one ever voted for - Gerald Ford. That said he was a decent guy and would not be GOP now (he was a pro-choice, supported ERA, opposed the religious right)
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or he might have been radicalized by partisan affiliation...
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Well, it might've been smart to up the cash incentive with the times. 200K was a motherload back in the day. Now, not so much.
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I mean... I understand it's tiny compared to the millions you can make in the private sector but I really don't feel bad for anyone who gets $200k a year the rest of their life for doing nothing
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