Posted on 01/03/2023 10:59:38 AM PST by Sam77
Backing the Forever War is good business for neocon scum.
And just a coincidence that Hunter and Jim Biden received $50,000,000+ from the chicoms, while biden was vp...LOOK, A SQUIRREL!/sarc
Yeah, we are so screwed.
And Truman should know:
“Harry Truman was a very rich man on the day he left the White House, and he became a good deal richer in the five and a half years between that day and the passage of the FPA. Moreover, Truman departed from the White House with so much money because he apparently misappropriated what in today’s terms would be millions of dollars from the United States government....
My research into Truman’s private financial files, which became available with the release of his widow Bess Truman’s personal papers, reveals the following:
• When Truman left the White House, he had, according to his own (far too conservative) estimate, a net worth that would be equivalent to $6.6 million in simple inflation-adjusted terms.
• By his own accounting, Truman’s wealth increased by the 2021 equivalent of another $3.7 million when Congress passed the Former Presidents Act five and a half years after he left office.
• Contrary to his claims, Truman made a fortune from his memoirs, and from other writing and speaking engagements, in the years immediately after he left the presidency.
• A large portion of the wealth Truman accumulated during his years in the White House seems to have come from a more than $2 million (in 2021 terms) expense account that Congress created a few days before the beginning of his full elected term. Truman apparently illegally pocketed the bulk of this money and filed fraudulent tax returns to disguise that fact.”
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/07/the-truman-show.html
” Just how radically is revealed by a draft will in Bess Truman’s files, dated December 26, 1953. Written in Truman’s own hand, the document totals up Truman’s estimate of his primary assets a few months after the end of his presidency.
These consisted of $250,000 in United States savings bonds, $150,000 in cash, and what Truman estimated to be $250,000 in land, along with a book contract that he figured would net him $100,000 after taxes and expenses (as we shall see, both of these latter estimates turned out to be far too low).
In sum, if we disregard the book contract he signed a month after leaving the White House, Truman’s estimate of his net worth when he departed the presidency was approximately $650,000. Simply adjusted for inflation, that $650,000 is equivalent to $6.6 million today. But this latter figure fails to capture the fact that America is a vastly wealthier nation now than it was then. Consider that in 1953, the 99th percentile of household net worth was approximately $125,000. Meanwhile, in 2020, the comparable figure was about $11.1 million. In other words, to be as rich today relative to other Americans as Truman was in 1953, a person would have to have a net worth of around $58 million.”
Same article.
Yep, 'coincidence'... /s
Yes, thanks for the correction but since Paul was hammered I’ve often referred to him as ‘John’ as in ‘a John’... I know his name is Paul. I’ll stop doing it - too many kind fellow freepers reach out to protect me from my ‘mistake’. Thanks Cobra.
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