[Hot Tabasco]

Elected officials should not be entitled to any benefits whatsoever following their leave of office................

[muawiyah]

Alas they are ~ that's been the situation ever since being a Congresscritter was made into a FULL TIME JOB and they were cut off from other employment opportunities ~ LIKE BRIBES and stuff like that.

Here's the problem ~ and I don't care how you think you can deal with it ~ when you have a Representative Republic you will get politicians.

It is known if you don't pay them handsomely they will "take stuff". And even if you do pay them handsomely some of them will "take stuff" anyway ~ but there'll be fewer of them so you can reach out and grab them by the collar and put them in jail.