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President Obama plans to return 5 percent of his salary to the Treasury in solidarity with federal workers who are going to be furloughed as part of the budget cutting process known as sequester, an administration official said Wednesday.The voluntary move would be retroactive to March 1 and apply through the rest of the calendar year, the official said. The White House came up with the 5 percent figure to approximate the level of automatic spending cuts to non-defense federal agencies that took effect that day.
“The president has decided that to share in the sacrifice being made by public servants across the federal government that are affected by the sequester, he will contribute a portion of his salary back to the Treasury,” the official said.
Read more @: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/04/u...cuts-obama-to-return-of-part-of-pay.html?_r=0
Hey i guess thats pretty humble and pretty cool :shrug:[/FONT][/COLOR]
Read more @: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/04/u...cuts-obama-to-return-of-part-of-pay.html?_r=0
Hey i guess thats pretty humble and pretty cool :shrug:[/FONT][/COLOR]
Read more @: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/04/u...cuts-obama-to-return-of-part-of-pay.html?_r=0
Hey i guess thats pretty humble and pretty cool :shrug:[/FONT][/COLOR]
Because it's really not all that much of a sacrifice - $20,000. Once he leaves office he'll be taking hundred of thousands from us every year until he dies. That's in addition to the millions he'll make doing whatever it is he wants to do.I really don't understand why anybody is attacking the president over this...At least some figures in office are stepping up to the plate and making sacrifices themselves.
Read more @: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/04/u...cuts-obama-to-return-of-part-of-pay.html?_r=0
Hey i guess thats pretty humble and pretty cool :shrug:[/FONT][/COLOR]
I think it's a good thing that he did it. I bet bonehead Boehner or clownazz McCain won't do the same thing. Lets see if ANY other politician will do the same. I really don't see any of the republicans doing it any time soon.
You guys would complain if he cured cancer, swore off golf, and guided White House Tours himself.
He can't "make" congress do anything. Article 1; US Constitution.How bout he makes all the members of congress do the same?
Do that, and maybe I'll bend the ol' ear...
Meantime?
Empty gesture is empty.
I really don't understand why anybody is attacking the president over this.
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