The price of a President

[vienna]

This may answer some of your questions:


http://www.presidentsusa.net/presidents_salary.html


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[Wolferz]

More than he's worth.

[mapuc]

Originally Posted by vienna

This may answer some of your questions:


http://www.presidentsusa.net/presidents_salary.html


<O>

Thank you for the link

Since 2001 the President of USA gets every year $400000 this is what I understand his own money. He has to pay for his own food
(While the President technically has to pay for his own food)

Additionally to his salary, the President gets numerous expense accounts

Have used the currency calculator to calculate how much 400000 is in Danish and some of the other money he gets. It seems that the President of US is a very expensive employee.

I guess a Danish President wouldn't get that much in salary.

And then you have the Senate and the Congress= The Danish Folketinget.

Markus

[vienna]

Originally Posted by mapuc

Thank you for the link

...And then you have the Senate and the Congress= The Danish Folketinget.

Markus

The really big expense is the surrounding bureaucracy which is immense and extremely unwieldy. There is a lot of "pork" in the business of government and a lot of obstacles in the way of reforming the situation. Take, for example, the current problems in the US Veterans Administration: While there are a lot of calls for the resignation of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (most vociferously from the opposition party; it is an election year, after all), the sad truth is the upper-level and mid-level officials in the Veterans Administration are protected by numerous laws and regulations so that even if they have failed or are derelict in their duties, there is little or no possibility of removing them from their post as a means of changing the system. Its rather like trying to kill cockroaches cutting off their heads -- the body still keeps moving and lives on...


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[TarJak]

Take a look at Britain. Replacing the monarchy doesn't reduce their cost. Unless you take the French solution.

[Catfish]

Ask the 'Windsors' how they managed to go by WW1

Those sneaky Saxo-Coburg-Gothas

[kraznyi_oktjabr]

Bureaucracy, security and routine maintenance of associated infrastructure (official residences etc.) for President of the Republic of Finland costs about €9,000,000 annually. This does not include president's salary nor certain other expenses. With today's exchange rate that is about $12,3 million.

I will return to this with more details in Saturday when I have time to dig into budget.

[Jimbuna]

The Queen remains very popular not only in the UK but throughout the Commonwealth.