Seeing how everyone becomes JUST after their terms as president (especially 2 term ones), what the fuck do US presidents do for a living afterwards?
Where do they get their income?
Do they have benefits? Is there a law that gives them welfare money after bresidency?
Do they work afterwards? Are they on retirement?
Why don't they just drop dead?
>>1950370
Former presidents get a pension of like $200,000 a year.
>>1950386
And they get paid to speak, sometimes they write a memoir.
>>1950386
>having to subsidize failures like Bush and Obama with our tax money
JUST
>>1950445
What tax money?
Two living former presidents run nonprofit think tanks or charities, another is independently wealthy but giving leadership talks and doing paintings.
>>1950450
Not his tax money.
Charities
Speeches/Philanthropy
Books
Secret pensions from corporations they helped ruined the country for
>>1950445
You can thank mark Twain, he found former president Grant drunk in a gutter and started writing about the need for a pension for presidents. Although it wouldn't actually come about until the 1950s.
>>1951158
If people think today's elections are weird, imagine a president who won on the grounds of military leadership losing re-election as a hangover-ridden PTSD patient?
>>1951151
>Secret pensions from corporations they helped ruined the country for
keked