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A simple calculation: $20,000/minute
Arithmetic | 4/28/17 | vanity

Posted on 04/28/2017 1:08:37 PM PDT by pabianice

Obama set to get $400,000 for Wall Street speech, or $20,000/minute for 20 minutes. If he talks for 40 minutes, $10,000/minute.


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1 posted on 04/28/2017 1:08:37 PM PDT by pabianice
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To: pabianice

[Obama set to get $400,000]

So, about $1 a lie....


2 posted on 04/28/2017 1:11:07 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Hebrews 13:2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for ... some have unwittingly entertained angels)
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To: pabianice

WTH is wrong with people who would pay this POS anything?

(with all due respect to excrement)


3 posted on 04/28/2017 1:11:09 PM PDT by bicyclerepair (MAGA - DRAIN THE SWAMP ! - I love my online family of FReepers.)
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To: pabianice

More power to him. If he’s making it legally, I don’t care and I ain’t gonna complain about it.


4 posted on 04/28/2017 1:12:06 PM PDT by TomServo
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To: pabianice

Yeah - and he used to have to “work” a whole year to make that.


5 posted on 04/28/2017 1:13:06 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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To: pabianice

Who cares. All he’s going to say is:

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6 posted on 04/28/2017 1:16:21 PM PDT by seawolf101 (Member LES DEPLORABLES)
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To: pabianice

And how much is that minus stuttering? He must be reading from a matchbook.


7 posted on 04/28/2017 1:20:57 PM PDT by InvisibleChurch (https://thepurginglutheran.wordpress.com)
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To: pabianice

Or about $75 every time he says “I” or “ME”


8 posted on 04/28/2017 1:21:08 PM PDT by Bernard (The Road To Hell Is Not Paved With Good Results)
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How much is that per ‘Uhhh’ and ‘errr’?...............


9 posted on 04/28/2017 1:21:46 PM PDT by Red Badger (Profanity is the sound of an ignorant mind trying to express itself.............)
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Gee, I did a one hour talk this week and got a coffee cup. I’m sure that the content was far more substantial than what could ever come from Zero.


10 posted on 04/28/2017 1:22:09 PM PDT by NewHampshireDuo
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He’s essentially a high priced male socialism prostitute who’s available for parties, graduations, and kids’ birthdays. They pay him, and he goes up there in front of a lectern and services the crowd orally. The only part up for debate is the ‘male’ descriptor.


11 posted on 04/28/2017 1:23:05 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: bicyclerepair
Isn't it a university that is paying with public funds?

Political speakers should be limited to ticket proceeds for speeches.

There shouldn't be an opportunity for self enrichment by funneling funds to a public university only to have the public university funnel funds back to the politician.

12 posted on 04/28/2017 1:28:15 PM PDT by DannyTN
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Reggie: “400.....LARGE?!?! Whats eyes gits outta ‘dis deal boss man”? Bathouse Barry: “You KNOW what you get, same as always......”)


13 posted on 04/28/2017 1:29:48 PM PDT by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a great life!)
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Years ago, when PCs were just coming on to the market, I worked for a computer consulting company. Every year we gave a Japanese company a big presentation about the industry, and they gave the presenter a PC. I wanted a PC, so I spent weeks preparing my talk.

The day came and I gave my presentation. And the PC? Nope. I got a set of cuff-links and I didn't even have a shirt that used them.

14 posted on 04/28/2017 1:34:09 PM PDT by pabianice (LINE)
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What if he goes full-Fidel and talks for four hours? There’s a minimum wage floor, but he’ll never be near it.


15 posted on 04/28/2017 1:37:30 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: pabianice

If his (or, more properly, its) teleprompter breaks down, what’s the going rate for 20 minutes of “uh” “er”, and associated gas sounds?


16 posted on 04/28/2017 1:47:47 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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They’re getting a bargain at $400k because when he’s done talking, he leaves

We the People had to endure him talking down to us for 8’ years and it cost us about $13 trillion


17 posted on 04/28/2017 2:00:28 PM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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They’re getting a bargain at $400k because when he’s done talking, he leaves

We the People had to endure him talking down to us for 8’ years and it cost us about $13 trillion


18 posted on 04/28/2017 2:00:36 PM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: TomServo
More power to him. If he’s making it legally, I don’t care and I ain’t gonna complain about it.

I care about both legality and morality. Being that Obama still has a lot of power and clout. That he has a history of lying and cheating for power. And that the payment is grossly disproportional to what one would expect the actual value of the service the payment is allegedly for.....I am forced to suspect that the payment is not really for the speech but is a bribe of some kind.

19 posted on 04/28/2017 2:01:22 PM PDT by AndyTheBear
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To: pabianice

How much for every “I, me, and my”?


20 posted on 04/28/2017 2:02:41 PM PDT by ptsal
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