Off topic - Harry Truman

[SEFEGeorge]

The closing paragraph is classic ................

President Truman

When President Truman retired from office in 1952, his income was

substantially a U.S. Army pension reported to have been $13,507.72

a year. Congress, noting that he was paying for his stamps and

personally licking them, granted him an \'allowance\' and, later, a

retroactive pension of $25,000 per year.

When offered corporate positions at large salaries, he declined,

stating, \'You don\'t want me. You want the office of the president,

and that doesn\'t belong to me. It belongs to the American people

and it\'s not for sale..\' Even later, on May 6, 1971, when Congress

was preparing to award him the Medal of Honor on his 87th birthday,

he refused to accept it, writing, \'I don\'t consider that I have

done anything which should be the reason for any award,

Congressional or otherwise.\'

Today, some Presidents and many in Congress have found a way to

become quite wealthy while enjoying the fruits of their offices.

Political offices are now for sale.

Good old Harry Truman one time observed: \'My choice early in life

was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician.

And to tell the truth, there\'s hardly any difference.\'

[herkeng]

If Truman were in politics today, the far left commies would have run him out of the Democratic party. It is a sad time when the party of my parents has sold out the blue collar folks for the Hollywood elite.

Herkeng