While the Obama Administration destroys Social Security and Medicare and “America, basically” to appease Tea Party fanatics employed by the Koch Brothers, Obama’s vice president is collecting $26,400 per year in taxpayer money that the Secret Service must pay him to rent some shed behind his house in Delaware. And why would the Secret Service want to camp out in Biden’s yard? Because they must protect him. And for this privilege they must pay the landlord, who is also Joe Biden.
The U.S. Secret Service is charged with protecting Joe Biden and his family, but the agency is also charged $2,200 a month to rent a cottage next to the vice president’s Delaware home. Records show Biden has collected more than $13,000 since April on the cottage in Greenville, and is eligible for up to $66,000 before the contract expires in 2013.
Asked if the Secret Service typically pays rent to those it protects, agency spokesman Edwin Donovan said, “It’s a rental property so we pay rent there.”
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Sarah Palin has just been a distraction, all hail the real Ruler of the Grifters! Grift on grifter, grift on.
So VeeP is where the real grifterbucks are, then?
and if he doesn't get the rent by the 5th, you deadbeats are getting evicted and the whole fucking govt. is shutting down.
I guess Joe's 3 AM phone call is the Secret Service calling letting him know really backed up the toilet and he needs to call a plumber. If they are late with the rent, who does Biden call?
Why do you think he was so concerned about the debt ceiling being raised?
Biden always seems to "check on the shed" whenever the lady Secret Service agent has just stepped out of the shower.
They could save some money and share the rent with the Fish & Wildlife guys that run the Desert Tortoise website.
Asked if the Secret Service typically pays rent to those it protects, agency spokesman Edwin Donovan said, “It’s a rental property so we pay rent there.”
I would have said, "It's a Secret, dumbass!".
Because I'm trying to cling to the limited reserve of silliness I have left.
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Sorry, Mexican standoffs are the new silly now. For your sake I hope you're heavily armed next time you try to be 'funny.'
In the annals of 'DC shit to get worked up about', this is pretty low on the scale for me…but my outrage meter has taken a beating lately & is on temporary break.
Dick Cheney is pissed that he didn't think of this first.
Although he probably did charge his lawyer for the shotgun shell landing in said lawyer's face.
I can't wait for the inevitable Bible Spice tweet on how Joe Biden is bilking the U.S. Government.
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What does Cheney need with human money when he has the ear of Satan & Co.?
Michele B could have gotten a $300k subsidy for it. Rookie.
Having to pay rent to your boss to be able to do your job?
Note to self: do not let my boss read this or he'll start charging cubicle rent on my fabric-covered box.
I am sure Baconz feels your pain.
Dale!!!
So now "company towns" can be a liberal idea.
Kinda like Obama is turning Tea Baggers into "centrists" by going along with their batshit.
John Galt would approve.
If Bachmannn can get farm subsidies then Biden can get rent subsidies.
Sounds like the Secret Service is paying federally subsidized cash for their housing. Miche1e will of course end this horrible practice when she is the recipient of their protection.
Haha! Yeah, right. She'll charge them $26,400 a month.
$417K amortized over 48 or 96 months.
That's pretty low rent, since that shed is probably full of all kinds of high-tech gizmos like hidden electronic world maps covered with triangles and circles, webcam monitors from ladies restrooms in bus stations around the country, and his old grass edger and hand-pushed reel lawnmower.
Did Joe have to move X'tine O'Donnell out first or is there a Lady Bug bed warmer for the agents?
Well, I don't have enough info to judge whether this is a bad thing or what. I mean, what are the amenities in this shed, I mean cottage, like? Because if they get a hot tub, all the porn channels, and a wet bar, then it's not such a bad deal. If not, GTFO…
Tool shed? Guess the hall closet was already occupied.
Guess that having the Secret Service there kinda makes it tough for Joe's kids to sneak out and burn a blunt in the shed while the parents are having a martini in the living room.
Well all those companies incorporate in Delaware for a reason, so not surprising that Delaware's previous senior senator might know a bit about grifting (also see Delaware Grifter Xtine O'Donnell).
So, does this mean I can charge NES rent for that big ol' light pole on my property? Sure, I benefit from the light, but I could be using that space for growing hobo beans.
I'm getting $30,000/mo to allow the FAA to monitor the airspace over my suburban tract house — doesn't everyone get that?
I do not want to know what that might be code for.
This is a refreshing return to normal corruption and payola–squeezing a few grand out of the government just because you can–instead of the relentless, large scale and unstoppable destruction of the economy that the Republicans are insisting on.
I'm pretty sure it says right in Article II that the VP has to be a dick.
He should have rented to a rich lobbyist instead. He could've gotten 5 times that.
I know this will come as a shock, but a very similar story was told about the Clintons. Checking out snopes, it seems it is standard practice for the Secret Service to pay for space used; the amount is set by the Secret Service and not the homeowner.
As noted in the snopes article, the Secret Service even paid to guard an empty house the Reagans were trying to sell back in 1981.
Snopes? What are some sort of Communist? It's all Lie-bural propaganda!
Should we monkey around with a new Snopes trial, or would that really blow and we inherit the wind?
Joe Biden knows a lot of tools. Giving up that too shed was a big deal.
Asked if the Secret Service typically pays rent to those it protects, agency spokesman Edwin Donovan said, “It’s a rental property so we pay rent there.”
Then he added, "Actually we're just glad we don't have to spend Wednesday afternoons cleaning childrens' blood off the ceiling anymore."
Wait a sec….(turning around like that dude in the Jeff Goldbloom HBO film "Framed). They have to PAY to save his life?!?!?!?! If some one was going to jump in the way of a crossbow I think I'd let them "Crash" at my guest room. Look at Cato Callin and O.J… 'Betcha O.J. would've wished he gave Cato free rent when O.J. was standin' tall in front of Judge Ito.
Government organizations that require space usually pay rent. Is it different because they are charged (by law) with protecting the VP? Why should he give up his space (even "shed" space) without compensation? Should Biden also reimburse the Treasury for the free travel he gets? You know who doesn't have legally required Secret Service protection, but gets it anyway? Dick Cheney. When Biden demands a cortege after his service is over, then we should complain.
Exactly. How much would it cost to get the exemption to rent the property "rent free?" What kind of liability does that open the Secret Service up to? Do they make alternations to the property that decrease the value? Who the fuck knows when there can be fauxrage manufactured against the administration?
After Biden it's President Boehner in the line of succession. Protect away. (I know it's all about calling out Pres O for his republican fetish today, but seriously, seriously.)
I remember the good old days of the Secret Service paying to rent out a Georgetown townhome because it was across the street from Madeleine Albright's house. Wonder how much that put them back.
"I kept catchin' that boy hwhacking off in my tool shed"
With that deal, it is amazing that Biden was the poorest person in the Senate!
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Before Sarah Palin weighs in. . .
ANCHORAGE, Sept. 8 — Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has billed taxpayers for 312 nights spent in her own home during her first 19 months in office, charging a "per diem" allowance intended to cover meals and incidental expenses while traveling on state business.
The governor also has charged the state for travel expenses to take her children on official out-of-town missions. And her husband, Todd, has billed the state for expenses and a daily allowance for trips he makes on official business for his wife.
$60,441 – and that doesn't count what she paid back after all those 'frivolous' ethics complaints ruled she wasn't on the up-and-up on what constituted "State Business."
Mind you, she unilaterally moved the Governor's duty station to Wasilla so she could work from home and charge the State for this luxury; while telling village residents that they should buck up move away from home (even if only temporarily) to find work when they were suffering under a food / fuel crisis in 2009 under her watch.
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Right now Cheney is calling all his friends and laughing his ass off, telling them: "Shit, I got three million a month for that piece of shit shack! What a fucking piker!"
Your move, Great White Griftress of the North.
The Secret Service is just glad they don't have to perform ritualistic child and virgin sacrifices in Naval Observatory's basement, anymore. That shit was messy, let me tell you, and got even more so when the gods of chaos and havoc were not impressed.
so?
Isn't this typical for Delaware? Isn't the state's sole source of income highway tolls for drivers just passing through?
To paraphrase the VP himself "Whoopty-fucking-big deal". Joey B. is the only thing standing between us and President Orangeman of Ohio should Barry not be here.
Hell, I'll go to Delaware and stand guard.
i say this is a good deal for just $2.2k a month the Secret Service will get not only an accommodation but also a free detailing service and an Amtrak tour guide from Delaware to Dc
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