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by homme 6333 days ago
Cripe, more than the US president less all the attendant duties. A functionary making that much...obligatory greenspun (nsfw) http://philip.greenspun.com/school/tuition-free-mit.html
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If you factor in the cost of transportation and protection (not to mention the rent on a swanky, DC-area mansion), the President is pretty high:

http://dealbreaker.com/2009/01/no-more-than-the-president-of...

The edit button is gone, so I feel bad about this. The President is pretty highly paid. According to his book, he hasn't be getting high since his 20's.
I wish people would lay off him. Look, for the last time, Bush is not President anymore. Next we'll be going over his alchoholism and business failings in his 30s.

Leave him be, please.

Uh, guess you didn't get it (no, not the book).