Posted on 06/02/2005 11:18:04 AM PDT by ken5050
Much has been written about the need and desire of Felt's family to cash in on his 15 minutes of fame. I have no problem with this, but we're also hearing about how he is living in a converted garage at his daughter's house, and that she has taken care of him for 20 years. Before designating her for sainthood. I 'd like to point out that he has been receiving a federal pension all this time, and he retired at the top of the federal pay system I know very little about the federal system, but assume there are many here who can estimate what his salary was at the time he retired, and what his pension is, even assuming that he elected a reduced benefit option to provide a survivor benefitfor his wife.
With COLA, over 25 years....it could well be..must be some basement, huh?
Thank you...
Listen, maggs..just give me the formula to change lead to gold....
Cute..very cute..
Money-grubbing lowlifes----Felt piled on our wounded Nation for his own self-serving reasons----these people would not lift a finger if America was in trouble.
Marcus Tullius Cicero A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist.
And give up my goldmine? Not on your life.
;-D
Why thank you!!
I agree with everything you say except "...government employees hget everything paid for..." with respect to medical expenses. Government employees must pay some rather steep health insurance premiums for what can be good to excellent health care benefits. But their health care is not free. You are apparently mistaking government employees with welfare cases. It's often an easy mistake to make.
You finished Jr. High yet?
That she ran away to join a commune does not address her attitude towards her father, but it does suggest a weak mind and an inferior sense of adulthood and responsibily.
If her father is in fact mentally incompetent, it is not much of a stretch to infer a probable inclination to exploit a minimum effort golden opportunity.
Though MF was pardoned by Reagan, would MF still retain his pension after a felony conviction?
Thanks for the correction. I misspoke. I know they pay premiums..and soem are considerable..but in return they get everything they need..
As I understand it..pensions are NOT forfeitable because of convictions...if you are indicted, and convicted, before retiring..or being allowed to retire..then it can be a different matter..
He was a disgruntled employee that was past over for promotion.
He was the holder of Hoover's secret files and he leaked information to two junior reporters to lure Nixon into a cover up scenario. Colson says that Nixon kept asking if a crime had been committed and was being told "no"
He probably had some dirt on someone because Nixon later testified on his behalf and Reagan pardoned him.
Nixon de-fanged this snake (Hoover's FBI) but it cost him. Anyway that's the way I choose to look at it.
Sorry, but your statement that federal employees get everything they need medically is still false. They get what the policy they elect give in benefits for the premiums they pay, just like any other health insurance buyer. And there is no health insurance policy in the world -- because all health insurance policies pay out less in benefits than is collected in premiums (or the company selling the policy goes bankrupt and no one receives any benefits) -- that gives anyone (let alone federal employees) "everything they need". If you doubt this, go to the OPM website and examine the various health insurance policies federal employees can choose. You will see that all -- just like your health insurance policy -- have limitations.
P.S. And we don't know if "Deep Throat" even bothered to buy health insurance. I believe 40% of the uninsured are uninsured not because health insurance policies are not available to them; they are uninsured because they believe they are healthy and stupidly believe they will always be so.
Here's another possibility: what if he was NOT Deep Throat, but that the daughter and Woodward have entered into a plot to deflect attention from the real one? We only have her word that he ever admitted it...that and a family attorney who promptly sold the story to Vanity Fair.
At any rate, I have no doubt she is desperate for money. If he has been supporting her for the last several years, that support will dry up when he dies. She is obviously not trained in any sort of lucrative work. It's pretty hard to sell one's home, move to an apartment, and get by on the money you earn cashiering at a grocery, especially if you have been scraping by on an income of $150,000. Desperation makes people do strange and often bad things.
re #131.........is Felt living in his daughter's basement or in her converted garage?
Again..thanks for the correction. I was attempting to convey the concept that as a group, retired federal employees are generally far better off as to the overall level of medical care than can receive. Does that work? If not..you write it..and thanks again..
So true. NSNR
I would agree that federal employees are far better off than most people with respect to the health benefits they can receive, but they are no better off than must people who work for very large organizations. As a general rule, the larger the group, the lower the premiums for the same benefits. However, if you want to moan and groan about a group that has excellent health insurance (I just put on my flame retardant suit), why not moan and groan about the members of the UAW working for GM -- if I can believe Business Week -- those people pay nada in premiums, the company picks up the tab, to the tune of $2,600 per vehicle sold. That's why GM is very likely to join Studebaker and T. Rex in the very near future.
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