Dear Mr. Clinton;
I pleaded to Emir of Kuwait in 1990 to stay away from me and not to harm me, but with no avail . The day Emir of Kuwait, and his Saudi gangs (members of al-qadae who still are filled in Kuwait) sought to kill me, Kuwait was gone next day. There are many illogical stories about me, that I myself do not believe them , how about you Mr. President. Don't take me wrong I don't believe in the existence of Allah, God , or whatever you wish to call it, but I believe strongly in the existence of the others somewhere beyond our planet earth. I sent you a letter, you replied, that day I was deprived from everything in USA-because I was living among families who daily receive letters from the party of the bullies, the Republican party ; "tell us you are with us or against us, why you do not donate.. and such and such bullies". Mostly, my baby lost a father when she needed him the most. Dear Clinton you came to Kuwait, and collected money from the tribal oil sheikhs, and they have silenced you. You met everyone in my book when you came to Kuwait except me. You are good man , very good man for a politician, and I know if you didn't do what you did, you wouldn't be a leader. I saw worse from the Bush father, and the Bush son after each war in the Gulf, not only sucking our money, but huge contracts, oil, and other contracts were signed between Bush's family and our government , but no one in congress or the white house, or whorehouse raised a brow.
For more information Mr. president you may ask Senator Dole
House panel votes to cut ex-presidents' pensions
Bill Clinton’s huge post-White House paydays loomed over a congressional panel’s vote on Tuesday to slash taxpayer-funded benefits to former presidents.
There was no direct mention of Clinton during the discussion by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, and the proposal to scale back benefits provided by the Former Presidents Act passed with bi-partisan support.
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But Clinton’s post-presidential earnings, which have dogged the presidential campaign of his wife Hillary Clinton, provided the backdrop for consideration of the Presidential Allowance Modernization Act, and seemed to be on the minds of Republican committee members.
“I think this is a very good bill, a very necessary bill, given what we’ve seen going on here,” said Rep. Glenn Grothman (R-Wisc.). “The thing I like about this bill is that, if people begin to earn outside income trading on their office, the income that we give them begins to drop and hopefully it will restore some dignity to the office of ex-president.”
After the mark-up, Grothman’s office acknowledged that he was, in fact, talking about Bill Clinton.
Since leaving the White House in 2001, Clinton has been paid at least $127 million in speaking fees alone, while also earning huge book advances and being paid to consult for various companies. Many of the corporations and countries that paid him had an interest in influencing U.S. foreign policy while Hillary Clinton was secretary of state – a confluence that critics say constitutes a conflict of interest.
At the same time, Clinton and his office by Election Day 2016 will have received more than $16 million through the Former Presidents Act, according to a POLITICO analysis of budget documents.
The cash – which has gone towards Bill Clinton’s pension, travel, office and even the salaries and benefits of staff at his family’s foundation – is more than that collected by any other ex-president during that time, POLITICO found.
Since former George W. Bush left office in 2009, though, he has outpaced Clinton in the value of total benefits received through the program – $9.2 million versus $8.3 million – according to POLITICO’s analysis. But Clinton still receives more than other presidents for his personal pension under the act. That includes $218,000 this year, and $221,000 next year, according to an appropriations request submitted to Congress earlier this year.
Officials with the Clinton Foundation this year brushed aside questions about the taxpayer-funded benefits and Clinton’s use of them to supplement staff salaries at the foundation. “His office is allocated $96,000 per year for personnel salaries. GSA does not dictate the number of staff for whom the allocation is used,” the officials said in a statement.
The act was passed in 1958 to “maintain the dignity” of the presidency by subsidizing the correspondence of former commanders in chief and keeping them from falling on hard times, like those faced by Harry Truman.
Those concerns don’t exist in today’s day and age, said Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), chairing the committee mark-up in the absence of Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), who sponsored the bill with the committee’s top Democrat Elijah Cummings (D-Md.).
Chaffetz missed Tuesday mark-up as he recovered from surgery to remove his gall bladder. But Meadows called the bill a “common-sense” update to “an arcane law” that provides “an unnecessary government handout to former presidents making millions of dollars after leaving office.”
The bill would put separate $200,000 annual caps on each ex-president’s pension and administrative expense allocation, and would also reduce from their overall benefit payments amounts equal to any private sector earnings beyond a $400,000-a-year threshold.
“Taxpayers should not have to pay for a former president’s allowance if the former president is making a comfortable living earning more than $400,000 a year after leaving office,” Cummings said.
The bill is similar to legislation Chaffetz introduced in the preceding two congresses. While this is the first time the bill has made it to the House floor, its prospects for enactment could be clouded if it becomes seen as a political cudgel for Republicans to wield against the Clintons during Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.
A Democratic congressional aide downplayed that possibility, pointing out “There are two former Democratic presidents and two former Republican presidents, none of whom is struggling financially or needs financial assistance from the American people.”
The White House didn’t immediately respond to a question about whether President Barack Obama would sign the bill or similar legislation if it got to his desk.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/05/ex-presidents-pension-house-vote-bill-clinton-118100.html#ixzz3b9iqibBB
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