Compare a present politicians retirement with General Grant. He had to write his memoirs to provide for his family after his death by cancer. Grant fought the Civil war and was President of the United States. Today's politicians generally succeed in sodomizing twelve year old boys and snorting the largest trail of coke in history. What a bunch of self important nothings!
Didn’t Dolley Madison die in near-poverty also (albeit due to her ne’er-do-well son’s spending habits, but still...)