[joethedrummer]

“... Harry Truman’s financial struggles,...”

Oh BOO HOO!!

If the man wasn’t smart enough to SAVE any of the money he EARNED as President all those years, he certainly could have gotten a decent JOB to support hisself.

Cry me a RIVER, please.

[Vigilanteman]

Truman's pension was pushed by Herbert Hoover, believe it or not. I'm in favor of having public pensions means tested beyond a national average, but feel they should get at least a national average. That goes from every public employee from unionized garbage collectors on up to the president.

Secret service protection is probably unavoidable considering all the whack-jobs loose in this country. That's a public cost we must pay for allowing them to run loose.

All of us know that social security will be means tested before long. It would be best to start with defined public employee pensions first.