Quote: (06-28-2015 01:15 PM)Dusty Wrote:
That concerns all politicians for the last 160 years. Those that opposed those orders were publicly executed. A president/prime minister in every country has a simple job - say anything that they want him/her to say and take the blame for it. After the career is over he or she will be paid for this job with a 9 digits amount like Clinton or even some presidential candidates like Al Gore.
There are plenty of examples in recent Canadian / US politics where politicians flip-flopped instantly after being elected. None of those guys want to be "Kennedied". It's better to paid 100 mio. + $.
My take is that Obama will cross into the one billion territory - doing speeches, making endorsements, being on company boards without doing the work etc. Bill Clinton probably made about 500 mio. + on his speeches and insider trading schemes - he may already be a billionaire for all we know, since US politicians can legally do insider trading (passed that law a few years ago). So any politician having a mere 5 mio. $ as his net worth is either a moron or he is omitting 50 mio. $ there.