obama takes pay cut....

[satchelmcqueen]

of 5%. what a fucking trooper. lets all give it up for the KING for taking a hit. i recall dr ron paul saying he would do the job for a mere $39k (the average american workers salary). here obama will give up 5% of his $400k.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-to-take-salary-cut-to-draw-attention-to-flight-of-federal-workers-facing-furloughs/2013/04/03/0cc90c2c-9ca8-11e2-a941-a19bce7af755_story.html?wprss=rss_business

[sailingaway]

Ron refused his government pension as being immorally rich next to what ordinary citizens get.

Get back to me when Obama follows suit.

[Origanalist]

He feels our pain.

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/obama-sequester-cuts.jpg

[jkr]

that cut is whut ron said he would take as salary...

hahaha

oBOMBa, U LOO$er

[asurfaholic]

Guess that means those little girls dont get lavish vacations anymore, amirite?

[sailingaway]

Can you believe the left is saying that thousands on medicare are being turned away from cancer centers because of SEQUESTER????

They have no clue about Obamacare (speaking to the sequester picture, above.)

[sailingaway]

Guess that means those little girls dont get lavish vacations anymore, amirite?

No, that is the Obama's being 'furloughed', you just aren't looking at it right...

[No Free Beer]

It's better than nothing.

[anaconda]

5% of Biden's one-night Paris stay would have saved the taxpayers more. These people are a laughing stock.

[anaconda]

It's better than nothing.

It is nothing IMHO.

[TaftFan]

How populist

[satchelmcqueen]

its a joke but the average person will praise him for it. mission accomplished.
It's better than nothing.

[jbauer]

The comments are sad. We are never going to save this country. $85,000,000,000 over 10 FUCKING years people. We're running 1,600,000,000,000 over annually and are 16,351,527,800,000 in the hole to start with. Knocking off $85B over 10 years is like skipping starbucks 1 time a year for 10 years.

[Origanalist]

Following Obama, Kerry to donate part of salary

WASHINGTON (AP) — Three Cabinet secretaries became the latest senior administration officials to give back part of their salaries, in the spirit of government spending cuts.

The announcements that Secretary of State John Kerry, the richest Cabinet member, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano and Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew will voluntarily reduce their pay came a day after President Barack Obama and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said they'd return 5 percent of their paychecks to the Treasury.

State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said Kerry, however, will give his 5 percent to a charity for department employees. She said he already makes significant charitable donations.

Kerry makes $183,500 this year. His donation is worth $9,175.

The former Massachusetts senator was worth more than $184 million at the time of his 2011 Senate financial disclosure form. His wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, is heiress to the Heinz ketchup fortune and is reportedly worth more than $1 billion.

The Homeland Security Department said Napolitano would donate 5 percent of her salary to foundations that benefit Homeland Security staff. Further details were not provided.

The Treasury Department said that Lew would contribute a portion of his salary to nonprofit organizations that are supporting people and programs adversely affected by automatic government spending cuts. The amount of Lew's contributions and the organizations receiving the money were still being worked out.

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[V3n]

Flashback:


Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) gave a $600,000 check to the U.S. Treasury, "taking the money he said he didn't need from his office's budget to make a tiny dent in the nation's massive federal debt," CNN reports.