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.

Clinton & Obama

I have tried not to compare or draw conclusions regarding Obama severe defencies as President of the United States but it is becoming very alarming. Obama is following in the footsteps of Clinton when it comes to dealing with enemies of our nation and dealing with terrorism in general. Clinton saw no problems with innocent civilians getting killed in response to his orders of taking out al Qaeda top members with drone killing, Obama is following the same footsteps in dealing with ISIS, aka ISIL and refusing to call them Muslim fundelmentalist followers of the Quran instead the winks and nods by calling them radicalized which in fact they are not.

Andrew C McCarthy, was the attorney that prosecuted the blind sheik(Omar Abdel Rahman) and eleven other jihadists. To fully understand the persons that he was prosecuting he read the entire Quran, and asked for advice on certain passages and came to conclusion that the blind sheik and the other eleven were not radical Muslims but devout followers of the faith.

For Obama to say that the Muslims that are killing innocent civilians and attacking places all over the world have been radicalized is a huge lie and a disservice to this nation. Those radicalized Muslims are just devout followers of the Quran and Islam.

When you have the holy leader of Iran calling for “Death To America”, and it’s being broadcasted on cable news and regular news, you have the news media complicit in not sayin the the holy leader of Iran is radicalized when they know in fact that is what a devout Muslim follower of Islam really would say.

First it was Carter during his presidency, his idea of getting the American held hostage by a nation of devout followers of Islam to apply sanctions to hurt the new leaders of Iran. Carters idea was flawed from the onset, the leaders of Iran never suffered just the general population of Iran did. The new leaders used the sanctions to whip up hatred for America.  The talks never materialized during carters presidency, Carter thought using the carrot stick approach that the hostages would be released. Clinton used the same carrot stick approach in dealing with al quaeda by using jets and drones and he failed just as well.  I’m not sure but the phrase so as not to offend devout followers of Islam the term radicalized Muslims was coined sometime between 2001 and 2006. Obama is using the same carrot stick approach as Carter and Clinton had and you can see where it got them and it put the nation at risks for their liberal beliefs.

Obama uses the phrase so as to not offend Muslims, instead of radicalized Muslims he should be stating that it is devout followers of the Quran who are making bombs and killing innocent civilians because they see themselves in a holy war against all nonbelievers and we are the infidels according to the Quran.

I have read the Quran and I agree with Andrew C. McCarthy that they are not radicalized Muslims but devout followers of the Quran and call it a holy war against the infidels.