Businessmen Who Served America

While the founding fathers wrote the Constitution, they envisioned men like themselves, who were businessmen to temporarily serve America.

From George Washington to Lyndon Johnson , presidents didn’t put their businesses in a blind trust ot sell them to serve as President if elected.

George Washington operated 2 desks in the Oval Office, one for the duties as President & the second one as his business desk. John Adams operated his plantation & other businesses from the same desk that Washington had operated his private sector businesses.

Thomas Jefferson was a plantation owner & operated his land holdings from a 2nd desk in the Oval Office. So from 1789 to 1953 persons who were elected President were not required to give up ownership of their businesses since they were already established.

After 1953 the Democratic Party evolved into an elected political class that never actually work but just fed themselves at the tax payers expense. In 1815 congress voted to change to an annual salary of 1500.00 per year in addition to the per diem. Currently this is the cost to operate congress at tax payers expense. I have broken it down as best as I could based on the limited data

432 house members174,000 x 432 
75,168,000 payHouse speaker 223,500Senate and house leaders193,400 x 5 = 967,000.00Benefits exceeed per congressional person125,00066,875,000 x 435 members
House operating expenses for all 435 membersTotal 410,931,885.00Per member is 944,671.00 for office and employe pay of a staff of 18

Per senate member is 3.5 million for office and personnel expenses 35 million dollars total cost to operate the senate. This doesn’t include the uses of private gyms in the house and senate buildings or the private dining areas.

They are not subject to any no smoking laws, they can make multiple flight reservations, but only have to pay for one, free parking at any airport.
In addition to their yearly salary they also get vacation pay, not listed for each month they are not in DC, the vacation pay is not listed.

Members of congress can receive up to 28,400 in outside pay each year, non taxable of courseFor all 535 members it totals 15,194,000 per year.
To operate congress it takes 589,165,385.00 per year.

This does not include office space in their respective states at tax payer expense. 

Getting back to the men who have been elected President up until Lyndon B Johnson have been businessmen not required to divest or place their businesses in blind trusts. Our founding fathers want people who own and operate businesses to serve America for a few years, then go back to the private sector.

Trump is not violating any laws or regulations or even the emolument clause, since all his businesses were operating before he was elected or sworn in. The emolument clause was in regards to accepting actual gifts that could be implied as graft.

Have any of those elected to congress sold or placed their businesses into blind trusts while they serve. Using nancy pelosi as one example, not on her life, her husband still operates his businesses with input from nancy herself.

Other than the operating Expenses of the White House & the White House staff, plus the secret service agents, Trump has not accepted a pay check for his position as President. Operating White House expenses is roughly 1,375,000 per year.

This does not include the secret service detail 24/7 this is for 2020. Nor does it include the salaries of the White House staff currently at 35.8 million per year compared to Obama’s staff close to 61 million per year.

Trump didn’t sell his businesses, but put up a legal wall between his organization that his adult children operate while he is president. This is not illegal, but something our founding fathers envisioned.

The Democrats & The Elites Hypocrisies

The democrats and their elitist friends in hollywood are hypocrites when it comes to the separation of illegals, and their children when they cross into America illegally.

Where is the outcry when Americans are arrested and separated from their children who are then put into the foster care system. You will just hear crickets because democrats and the elitist won’t be protesting.

In 2013 there was 2.7 million legal American children in the foster care system nation wide due to single parent or both parents serving time. You will not see the likes of Nancy Pelosi or Maxine Waters protesting the separating of American children from their parents after they are arrested. You won’t see any movie stars having hunger strikes at all.

Everyday there are adults arrested that have children and are separated in all 50 states, but we hear no outcry from any democrat or Hollywood elite protesting at all. They would rather protest for illegals it shows the rest of America where their priorities are at. Once again democrats feel that illegals have more rights under our Constitution that actual American citizens.

Democrats and the elites get upset when you point out that Bill Clinton signed the bill into Law to deter parents in South American countries from sending their children alone to cross into America illegally.

Where is the outrage of American adults being separated from their kids when they are arrested?