[ilgipper]

An allotment should be made for security as it is directly related to the job they held. I don’t are if they earn their own money or not or if I agree with them. There is a security requirement needed to protect them from domestic and foreign crazies specifically because of their time serving the country as President. It should be limited to home protection and basic travel protection. If the Obama’s jetset as they have in office, they should get the same amount as George Bush who spends most of his time at home in Dallas. As far as annual income, I don’t know....if congress gets one, why wouldn’t the President? We know damn well the congress isn’t going to vote theirs away, and it is much more expensive than a few living presidents.

[kabar]

Former presidents were entitled from 1965 to 1996 to lifetime Secret Service protection, for themselves and spouses and children under 16. A 1994 statute, (Pub.L. 103–329), limited post-presidential protection to ten years for presidents inaugurated after January 1, 1997. Under this statute, Bill Clinton would still be entitled to lifetime protection, and all subsequent presidents would have been entitled to ten years' protection.

On January 10, 2013, President Barack Obama signed legislation reinstating lifetime Secret Service protection for himself, George W. Bush, and all subsequent presidents.

Richard Nixon relinquished his Secret Service protection in 1985, the only president to do so.