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.
I think one of the posters involved in the caregiver issue does PROJECT, probably because of having had entirely too much experience in that.
Most of the questions concerning the caregiver's motives and behavior have been satisfactorily answered with research by other posters.
The conclusion, in case you missed it, is that these people probably don't have all that much money, but are comfortable enough to be most concerned with student loans.
I can PROJECT on that!
There is not now, best I can see, any real questions about what's going on; just a lingering touch of speculation.
I'm with Gordon Liddy on this one though. I would reconsider the pardon Ronald Reagan gave this guy.
IMO, the unseemliness of it certainly goes to THEIR credibility.
The crap of making personal attacks on other posters.
But you knew that.
Even if he doesn't get to spend it, it "inures to his benefit" because he gets to direct where it goes.
In other words: He's cashing in.
According to his bio, Felt entered the FBI in 1942 and was the number 2 man until June 1973. I don't know if he retired at that time or moved elsewhere in the USG since he was later convicted of breaking into Weatherman homes without a warrant.
For the sake of this discussion, let's assume that Felt retired in 1973 with 31 years of USG service at the age of 60 (he was born in 1913.) He would be entitled to about 62% of the average of his high three years salary, which were probably the last three years of his service. Assuming his average salary was $45,000 (based on some information related to Congressional salaries, which cap civil service salaries), Felt received a pension of $27,900. This pension is indexed for inflation and goes up every year using the same rate as SS. Assuming a conservative 3.5% increase per annum, his pension after 32 years should be $83,887. He could be doing better than that since the inflation of the 1970s and early 1980s resulted in higher COLAs. I would have to do a year by year breakdown to get a better estimate.
I would have never suspected it.
You will notice I reserve my harshest invective for Democrats, Liberals, RINOS, "fibbies", and assorted evil doers of all kinds.
But you don't know, and attacking people who are asking questions is really out of order. I have explained to you why the question is pertinent. It isn't like we chose to pick on some poor unsuspecting innocent just for meanness.
She has made herself a public figure. Speculation on her motives, expecially given what was printed in Vanity Fair, is not unreasonable.
See my post 225.
Do you really need to ask? I'm sure he was a communist.
John Dean, just on Keith Oberman's show, has a column coming out tomorrow speculating that there might have been "assistant Deep Throats".
There are conditions when a federal pension is forefeitable. One is if you are convicted of treason.
>>Sorry for being so cynical
that's like using pms as an excuse to backhand children. you are out of line.
Howlin, thank you for the well deserved warning about forum protocol.
Neapolitano on Fox says if he accepts money, it is the second half of a bribe. Also says this is malfeasance in office and passing secrets.
Is anyone sure about the California commune, or was it something closer to home ~ like an old house in Arlington?
A fellow about my age named Hahn did something like this ~ as his ex-wife put it "he ran off with the hippies", and that involved this rather destructive commune in Arlington.
When that place went on the market a buddy of mine proposed we cash in everything we had and buy it ~ a mere $50,000. It now has a large highrise office building on the lot. Yes, we have bashed our foreheads into very flat places.
Anyway, these people were all the children of highranking Post Office Department Inspectors, FBI agents, and Treasury agents. It was a mixed group of Protestants and Catholics although this occurred at the time many Protestant federal law officers regularly attended the KofC watering hole in Arlington with their Catholic work associates.
Brings back the good old days ~ Bebe Rebozzo pouring Margaritas out of a pitcher with Richard Nixon, and then they'd crawl around on all 4s in the Rose Garden ~ really scandalized their military "guards" who all belonged to the same American Legion post that I did.
My goodness were there stories.
All of Felt's stories were available at the Legion or the KofC a few days before they showed up in the Post. There were no mysteries in town.
Glad I could help.
Once Felt turned 65, he is covered by Medicare.
He pretty much nailed it.
He knows.
Quite sneaky.
I still don't trust TV judges.
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