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Perhaps Biden can donate to national debt
Jean Larkin
May. 18, 2014 1:01 am
Did anyone note the salaries in the Parade magazine ('What people earn,” April 11)? Governors of Florida, Tennessee and Alabama declined any pay. Sen. Jeanie Forrester, New Hampshire, can only earn $100 per year, a state rule.
Yet, Vice President Joe Biden earned a salary of $230,000 plus. In 2012 he received $29,761 from Social Security. Just think in eight years he could have taken $330,000 from Social Security. Did he really need it? Most of us don't take Social Security until we retire.
Perhaps Biden can donate the $106,000 each worker in the United States owes on our national debt. Staggering, isn't it?
Motto - if they voted for Obamacare, vote them out. If the Democrats stay in power, we will soon be in debt to $20 trillion.
Jean Larkin
Cedar Rapids
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