What's Putin done now?

[facthunter]

Malcom Frazer said that Life wasn't Meant to be easy.  Nev

[onetrack]

It was pretty easy for him, and easy for him to say, from his exalted squattocracy/high-ranking politician position, with all the perks that come with both positions.

[facthunter]

He didn't have that much money and sounded more Toffy than he actually was. In their latter days He and Whitlam became quite friendly.  Nev

[Litespeed]

For all his faults, Fraser ended up been a great ex pm, he used his position for social causes and excelled.

 

Unlike every Liberal ex pm since.

 

[onetrack]

Every ex-PM of Australia costs us taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. In retirement, in the Whitlam, Fraser, Keating and Howard, Rudd and Gillard era, they got a free office, free office staff, free phone service, a free "private plated" car, free air travel (business or first class, of course), as well as their massive pensions, which lends a whole new world of meaning to the word "pension". 

In addition, these ex-PM's charge massive sums just for giving speeches - which they do regularly. As an example, Whitlam was costing taxpayers around half a million annually in pension, former position perks, and travel, phone and car entitlements, which he maxxed out at all times. It was reported that Whitlam was paid over $3M during his retirement, out of the public purse.

 

This is the reason why politicians entitlements were cut back in recent years, because they unjustly enriched themselves with massive pensions and perks, that they organised for themselves.

Despite having a Parliamentary tribunal for politicians pensions, it was essentially a rubber stamp for increases the pollies themselves put forward.

 

Fraser probably became a great social improvements promoter, out of guilt, when he came to the realisation that not everyone was born with a silver spoon in their mouth.

He was born into squattocracy wealth, and inherited huge wealth and properties, and he wouldn't have ever known what it was like, to struggle for a living.

 

https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/national/2018/10/28/former-prime-ministers-cost

 

Compare our snout-in-the-trough PM's with Harry Truman. He ran the worlds biggest, most powerful and richest nation, and did it for $6250 a month from 1946 to 1949. Congress approved an increase in Trumans pay to $12,500 a month in 1950, part of which was to cover Presidential expenses, which were substantial.

When Truman left office, he got NOTHING - No pension, no Secret Service protection, no office perks of any kind. And he consistently refused offers of big money to join corporate boards or other good-paying positions, saying to do so would demean the Office of the President of the U.S.

 

The man stands head and shoulders above any other politician the world has ever produced - and the miserable excuse of a blatant money-grubbing, self-interested scumbag that is currently the U.S. President, is a galaxy away from Harry Truman.

 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/taxanalysts/2014/04/23/its-good-to-be-the-ex-president-but-it-wasnt-always/#:~:text=In his last full year,reported just $34%2C176.70 in income.

 

Here's a list of the more recent, revised levels of ex-P.M.'s pensions and perks, they are still substantial.

 

https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/national/2018/10/28/former-prime-ministers-cost

 

Edited 15 hours ago by onetrack
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