>>”I will not be able to make it to the end of this administration, just financially,” Snow said. “This job has been such a pleasant surprise in how much I like it. I love it.”<<
I have to say that does not ring true. I say that even as I like and respect Tony Snow. But if this story quotes him acurately and not out of context, I think Tony just lied to us about his main motivation to leave.
He said the same thing on Hugh Hewitt the other day
I liked him better as a talk show host. At least i felt like his opinions were his own.
So where do you think he could make more?
Just askin!
Maybe you should give Tony a break?
If you knew you had a 75% probability of being dead in the next 5 years, and could make $1.5 million for your wife and children per year vs. $168,000...wouldn't you do it?
I don't know about that ... maybe he could handle his old mortgage, and maybe he could handle his old mortgage along with rent on his DC digs... But if you pile on some big medical bills, I'd guess that his financial obligations are eating him alive.
And maybe, just maybe, he's worried enough about his lifespan that he wants to put away a nest-egg for his kids.
Tony may be lying to himself about his motivations. People with cancer often do that.
And finances really may be worrying him just as he said as he may want to provide better for his family given the real possibility he may not be around much longer.
God bless our dear Tony Snow.
My father passed away in June due to cancer. He had insurance, but after conventional treatments began to fail, he underwent some experimental treatments, some of which cost $5,000 per treatment.
I can easily believe that medical expenses like that would force a man to change jobs and relocate his family.
It seems to me, that with an issue as complex as a career, there is never a single reason to switch jobs. There may be one reason that is the main one, but there are always multiple reasons. Those of us who have ever changed jobs know that. When a prospective employer asks me why I am leaving my old company, I would be a fool to give every single reason that is a factor.
Saying that you are changin jobs for financial reasons is usually an honest part of an answer and often the single most important reason. I think we should give Tony Snow the benefit of the doubt and accept his stated explanation. There is no reason for us to question it.
For those who think $168,000 is a enough, you’re right. It’s enough to live comfortably, but it’s not a luxurious income in the DC area. Plus, most of us, if we took a big pay cut, might have trouble meeting our mortgage payment which we took on when our salaries were higher. He may, as many people have said, have large medical bills, and he may want to put aside money for his family. All of this makes sense.
I say we give him our thanks for a job well done and continue to remember him in our prayers.
I hope the thought is not foreign to you that a man would move heaven and earth to secure his family's future, particularly when his own mortality has been tested twice in five years.
$168,000 is not a liveable wage?
Geez! I’d sure like to try “surviving” on $168,000.
Unfortunately, we and our friends and relatives, neighbors, etc have to survive on a whole lot less.
So my b.s. meter is screaming off into the red zone.
When Tony Snow would sub for Russ L, he sounded pretty decent and good and sensible.
More likely, being forced to change from a decent, sensible, honest human being into a b.s. shill for the Admin and dealing with well-dressed folks in Congress/Senate of character less than the average wino must have finally gotten to him.
You don't live in DC. Greenspam's game of inflating us out of our financial troubles has accelerated the costs of living in DC out of control. Trying to support a family of 3 on that kind of money is stressing enough without all the other pressures (including costs) that arise from working in the WH. Having to have new well tailored freshly pressed suits must cost him a bomb alone.
I had a two word response to your sensitive post about Tony Snow’s lying to poor little you, but I realized it will get me in the cooler again. It rhymes with “duck stew.”
I do too but maybe not for the reason you think. He is not looking well at all, he is losing weight and he is losing his hair and I think that he wants/needs to go home. I suspect the severity of his cancer has not been fully disclosed and he just wants to disappear without causing concern amongst his loyal fans..
One does not quit a job for financial reasons if they don't have another job lined up and if he had that job then he would have announced it.
My prayers go out to Tony and his family.......
I would not dream of calling Tony a liar unless he told me he’d lied or unless God told me.
It’s thoroughly out of character with him.
Add all his health problems and the expenses that go with it, it isn’t hard to believe he has cash flow problems. It could also be that he feels he needs to get more money saved to provide future security for his family because he doesn’t think he’s going to be around a whole lot longer.
It isn’t for you or I to judge him for his motives for not wanting the job any longer.
He has medical bills, and other bills. Moreover, you are ASSUMING and that is totally uncalled for and disgusting.
If he’s looking at a shortened life expectancy due to recurring cancers and has three kids to see through college, he may very well feel he needs to leave sooner rather than later to maximize his earnings potential in whatever time he has left.
as one who experienced the cost of cancer treatments - and Tony's going through a second round? - I CAN believe it. Even if insurance pays 80%, it leaves you with a mountainous bill = plus related expenses.
I think Tony Snow has more than earned our trust.,,and thunderous appreciation of his incredible dertermination to continue at his post when he has had to have felt very ill, particularly after treatments. It saddens me to see that people would pre-judge this man, especially in a world-wide forum.
Unless you KNOW, and unless you have have also gone though the tortures of the damned that comes with cancer treatment - and the mountainous bills - I wish people would kindly just shut up.
I believe that Tony is very, very sick. You can tell by looking at him. He’s giving it up because I don’t think he can keep up much longer. We need to keep him in our prayers.