The Bush retirement plan: build library, enjoy perks

Source: Yahoo / McClatchey

WASHINGTON — President George W. Bush's "after-life," as Laura Bush calls the post-presidency, is shaping up to be pretty comfortable, with a Dallas office, staffers, Secret Service protection, a travel budget, medical coverage and a $196,700 annual pension, all at taxpayers' expense.

The Bushes will move to their new $2 million , 8,500-square-foot Dallas home — not paid for by taxpayers — on Jan. 20 , and there Bush will be close to his future presidential library at Southern Methodist University .

"We're working on a conceptual design for the building," said Mark Langdale , president of the George W. Bush Foundation . The president will help develop the $300 million structure, which will include a library, museum and policy institute.

Fundraising is just beginning, Langdale said. Once the project is finished in 2013, the National Archives and Records Administration will take over the operation of the library and museum, at federal expense. Construction will be paid for with private funds, and Bush is expected to be involved in organizing the fundraising drive.

"He is enthusiastic about spending a lot of his time and effort working on the programs of the institute," Langdale said.

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from Bush. LOL!

for a long time.

Word here is that the Cheneys are heading straight to Wyoming on January 20.

We know what his "time and effort" produces.

I would say don't HOPE for too much "time and effort." Look at what it's done to our country so far.

I'm glad Bush will be gone soon, but he's still wrecking the country in his final hours (check out http://tv1.com/playlists/105 to see the news he's been making lately). I'm still hoping there will be jail time in his future.

at a cost to the American taxpayers of 23 million.

Oh, and another 23 mil for Cheney.

...afterward it's on his tab. Good luck, asshole.

former presidents and their VPs are entitled to at least ten year's worth. Since its enactment, only Jimmy Carter has turned down SS protection.

Reality is Jimmy Carter is the only former president who doesn't need protection. Of course George W Bush will need it for the rest of his life. But will only have it for ten years. Unless Congress changes the law again which no doubt it will since Congress changed the law to begin with trying to limit protection for Bill Clinton.

All presidents should have lifetime protection along with their widows. If they choose to have it.

They have never said one way or the other but according to those who supposedly knew, Jackie Onassis released her detail when she left for Athens to marry Onassis. Dumped them at the terminal at JFK. She later asked for continued protection for John and Caroline. But then had her own security watch the Secret Service. She never trusted them. After Dallas, who would? One of the advantages of the Secret Service was they allowed her to get a restraining order against photographer Ron Gallelo. The Secret Service testified they considered him a threat to the children. Kind of hard to counter the Secret Service.

and throw him to the Hague ASAP.

Hawkeye-X

HawkeyeX

Why hould The nederlands, and Europe get him?.. Have we been that bad for the last 8 year, that it is right to send your worst President ever to us to put into our prison system?.. Compared to most american prison system for the most part west european prison system is compartable to a holliday in the sun, with good food, good cell, and even a decent "Pay" if you work a couple of hour every day...

Mr Bush are after all YOUR problem, and even that I do understand that You want to send him to ICC, so he can be convicted by all his crimes that he truly have been doing for the last 8 year (he and the rest of the administration, both present and past member) this s after all USA who have to act according to your own standard, who you once was so famous for...

It is the american public, who have to get to the bottom of the truth when it came to President GWBs administrasjon, and his crimes, misgivings and the rest of the crimes he might have been doing.. Not Europe, who for the most part was been telling to go sqrew ourself in our collective ass... USA have to stand up, and take the evil as it cames, and mr Bush, and his administration absolutely deserve a time in cort, where all their crimes international as national can be proven once and for all. If ICC was to be the only arm who is arresting, convicting and send the criminals in the administration to prison, the american would not be more vicer than it was before mr Bush wa put in Haag... In fact many american would belive mr Bush to be inocent, and that ICC was biasted against an Republican President, who have not been doing nothing wrong... And that europe was just there to get even with US..

It is US who must take him to the cort system, not ICC.. If YOU want to get him into a prison, and the rest of the big shots from his administration into a prison cell, You have to push mr Obama to get going the right thing.. Europe and ICC can't clean up this mess, becouse this is something US have to manage on their own... In 1945-46 when the Nurnberg trials was coming and 12 of 21 was finding guilty and hanged, it was coming from abroad.. The germans on their own would never have managed to get Goering and the rest of the top leaders of the Nazist to their just end.. It was the americans, the brits, the french and the russians who in the end was doing something never happend before.. Get the guilty on a trial and even get some of the hanged for their crimes. But Germany was a country who was overwelmed, and on their enemies hand.. The US have stil their own army, their own freedom, and if they shoose, they can still prove for themself, that they want to adhere to the same prinsiples US was telling the world in 1945, after WW2... But then YOU, the americans have to get the guilty one into the cort, and do the right thing.. Americans can't just send YOUR former president to Haag and belive that Europe on their own can make it posible that it never wil happend again... Like in the post war Germany, where the documation about the crimes the germans have been doing even today, more than 60 year after the war ended have peopole shocked and angered YOU have to soulshearch yourself, and go into a painfull reality about what in fact happend the last 8 year where the US was going amok, and was in the proses of destroying more than 70 year of sivilized "how to do thing" between nations (wel in fact, it is more then 70 year more like 150 year, but you got my drift I belive)..

I know US can do it if they want to. I know US, if they want to, can make it posible, that it NEVER would happend again, that a president would misuse the trust given by their peopole after a attack like 11 Sept 2001 to more or less ruin the country, and shift the balance of power, not to the interest of the US... I know US can do what is right, even if wil be hard to get tru it...

But again, it is more or less up to YOU in US to make it posible. Not up to the Dutch, or to Western Europe.. It is up to US alone to get the american public to understand what type of criminal behavour your president, and your administration have been doing for 8 year..

Diclotican

Sorry my bad english not my native language

...pursue him to the ground, arrest him, prosecute him and imprison him for the remainder of his miserable life in some Super Max.

Repeat for:

1. Shitstain Shoots-Guy-In-Face
2. Herrobergruppenfuehrer Rumsfeld
3. Condom Liesalot Rice
4. KKKKKKKarl "Prison Beyotch" Rove
etc.

I wonder if they will mention what a toxic terrorist Bush/Cheney have been to Americas' landscape. http://www.wisecountyissues.com Kept US safe my ass.

They tried so hard to uphold the Constitution; curb global warming; solve the energy crisis but there was ALWAYS some horrid liberal stopping them

And maybe just have his "brother" sign the solicitation letters. Are you all ever going to wake up to the reality of the dynasty?

of his time and effort working on the programs of the institute," Langdale said....'

Highly doubtful. He has the attention span of a gnat. There is no way he can put a program together...pay someone to do it so he can call it his - that he can do.

Yes, put a cutout of a new moon on the door. That's the only concept that works.

for trying to destroy our blood and treasure..fucking traitor.

Is it to teach Authoritarianism, lieing, treachery? Is it to teach deficit spending, decreasing the value of the dollar, and making ourselves hated throughout the world? Policy Institute. How about a Policy Institute for wise governance, which would show future politicians how to behave oppositely of the 43rd president?

and he hasn't finished coloring one of them yet ... I hope the idiots who voted for him are real happy about how they're tax dollars will be spent.

Freudian slip Laura dear?

maybe a vault to hide his stash in.

all but one I read were anti cheney/bush...:D

Surely it shouldn't cost that much to buy a shelf and stick "My Pet Goat" on it, should it?