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Obama returns 5% of his salary
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/03/obama-salary_n_3008600.html?ncid=txtlnkushpmg00000037
WASHINGTON -- The White House says President Barack Obama will return 5 percent of his salary to the Treasury in light of automatic spending cuts that have led to furloughs for thousands of federal workers.
A White House official says Obama decided to return part of his salary each month for the rest of the year to share in the sacrifice that government employees are making. The official wasn't authorized to discuss the decision publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.
The president makes $400,000 per year. A 5 percent pay cut amounts to a little less than 1,700 per month.
The decision is retroactive to the beginning of March. That's when $85 billion in federal spending cuts kicked in after lawmakers failed to agree on a plan to undo them.
Re: Obama returns 5% of his salary
As a wise man once said, "symbolism over substance."
Isn't he the one that targeted the sequester cuts to do the most damage so that he could make public political points? I don't think that worked the way he wanted it to.
Not to mention the huge party he is having at the White House at the end of the month...
yeah that 5% is really going to hurt his family on the same level the 20% hurts the Federal Employee.
He should give it to a single mother like Michelle.
(She called herself a single mother.)
He receives criticism from conservatives about how the sequester doesn't affect his salary.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2013/04/02/Obama-Congress-Exempt-from-sequester-salary-cuts
So he decides to cut
JFC you people will jump all over *anything* if it has to do with the Obamas. She didn't say "OMG I'm a single mother! I have it so hard!" She made a mistake, which she corrected immediately in the same breath. She said:
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Oh please if a conservative pres. did it everyone would be dripping with praise.
What would the president have to cut his salary by to make it "hurt"? 50%? 75%?
Then again a conservative pres. would probably not cut at all and argue t