Secret Service will cost more if Kerry elected

John Kerry is one of the richest Senators in government. When someone is elected president, it means the Secret Service has to protect the President and his family as well as his property.

The Kerry's have five U.S. properties not counting the several foreign properties they own too. The cost to run these homes are more than what the average American could afford, even if the rent was free, and all you had to pay the water, gas and electric. Including ground keepers, maintenance, pool, and house keepers. To be President would require the taxpayers to pay for all that now if elected. Including a complete staffed Secret Service security 24 hours a day. In addition to that we will have to pay for each of their homes for security improvements even if they never go to them all, that is, that just in case. Who do you think will pay for all this? We Pay! This takes all the expense off Kerry and puts it on us.

Nevertheless, factor another major cost to Americans that Kerry does not want you to know about. Becoming president would automatically include taking care of all their properties with Secret Service Agents that includes five agents per six-hour shift, four times a day, 365 days of the year for the rest of their lives so long as they own those properties.

It comes with being President, once you are elected. It requires us the taxpayers, to pay for this as well as his annual salary, as well as his retirements including the cost of living adjustments to boot, plus salaries and protection for all their real estate property, plus Secret Service Agents, and pay the bills for the rest of his life. In addition, feed the Secret Service agents and rotate new ones every 6 hours for the rest of his life.

That's my experience also....... I stayed at the point in Arizona ,the Broadmoore is Colorado, etc etc.....Always the USSS picked up the tab for rental cars and the rooms but lordy help yer paycheck if ya bought a cookie & a coke out of the minibar....... We always stopped at the local grocery and bought our dinners for brown baggin in the hotel room, lots of pizza delivery or we made a quick pit stop into a local burger joint etc.... . I always liked the details at the double tree's as that big old jar of cookies was a sure threat and I had to conduct extensive taste testing . It was for the protecteee ya know ! Only doin my job !...........buuuuuurrrrrrrpppp !

I did get quite a collection of Brooks brothers best suits as USSS paid us a very nice clothing allowance. Quite a life to go from a range clearance/ demolition mission in the desert one day and sh*t and go blind time with the USSS TSD weenies the next !

Never in my life had I ever seen so much money wasted by either party........... Nothing like tossing a E-3 into a Lincoln town car and a brooks brothers suit and watching him wonder if it's OK to move without being told.

Lots of DOD assets used by the USSS....White House Communication Agency is also a DOD ran op, as is the transport of all the presidents vehicles and USSS support vehicles. Money Money Money !!!.......

I have known quite a few White House Communications folks. They did not have the problems with the Secret Service budgets, they were pretty much a DoD only operation. Transportation is the same, how many C141, C5 and C17 are used to transport limos, Suburbans, and various support vehicles?

It debends on the purpose & threat level of the trip...... for example when GHWB went to Houston once.... the night before the election he lost to bubbafucco. Every Marine one Helo in the inventory seemed like it was present so no one could pick out which one the potus was on....

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