$15,000 worth of it.
Here’s another delightful little tidbit to contemplate as April 15 looms, and as our moral, ethical, and intellectual betters try to convince us that the sequester is a disaster and government spending is noooooo problem. CBS DC:
Former President Bill Clinton’s 8,300-square-foot Harlem office near the Apollo Theater costs taxpayers nearly $450,000. George W. Bush spends $85,000 on telephone fees, and another $60,000 on travel. Jimmy Carter sends $15,000 worth of postage — all on the government’s dime.
The most exclusive club in the world has a similarly exclusive price tag — nearly $3.7 million, according to a new report from the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. That’s how much the federal government spent last year on the four living ex-presidents and one presidential widow.
And of course, we all know whose fault it is:
Topping the list in 2012 was George W. Bush, who got just over $1.3 million last year.
A-ha!! So shut up, wingnuts!
Can’t these guys fend for themselves once they’re released back into the wild? If we’re canceling White House tours, can’t we make Jimmy Carter buy his own stamps?
And then there’s the whole Biden deal. Why was he in France in the first place? Did he think he was going to see where they invented pizza?