{"id":51309,"date":"2016-01-21T13:08:36","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T20:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=51309"},"modified":"2016-01-21T14:20:46","modified_gmt":"2016-01-21T21:20:46","slug":"absolutely-no-comparison-to-our-scum-bag-politicians-a-to-zee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/01\/21\/absolutely-no-comparison-to-our-scum-bag-politicians-a-to-zee\/","title":{"rendered":"ABSOLUTELY NO COMPARISON TO OUR SCUM BAG POLITICIANS…A to Zee."},"content":{"rendered":"

THE ONLY POLITICIAN IN SRI LANKA WHO CAN BE COMPARED TO **PRESIDENT HARRY**\u00a0 IS \u00a0“THE HONOURABLE DUDLEY SENANAYAKE”<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

Susantha Wijesinghe\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n

Thought you’d enjoy this!<\/strong><\/p>\n

It’s one you\u2019d want your Children and Grandchildren to read.
\nThey won’t believe this happened, but it DID.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Harry & Bess
\n(Seems unreal to ever have happened opposed to realities in our day ….)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Harry Truman was a different kind of President. He probably made as many, or more important decisions regarding America’s history as any of the other 42 Presidents preceding him. However, a measure of his greatness may rest on what he did after he left the White House.<\/strong><\/p>\n


\n<\/strong>The only asset he had when he died was the house he lived in, which was in Independence Missouri. His wife had inherited the house from her mother and father and other than their years in the White House, they lived their entire lives there.<\/strong><\/p>\n

When he retired from office in 1952 his income was 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.<\/p>\n

After President Eisenhower was inaugurated, Harry and Bess drove home to Missouri by themselves. There was no Secret Service following them.<\/p>\n

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.”<\/p>\n

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.”<\/p>\n

As president he paid for all of his own travel expenses and food.<\/p>\n

Modern politicians have found a new level of success in cashing in on the Presidency, resulting in untold wealth. Today, many in Congress also have found a way to become quite wealthy while enjoying the fruits of their offices.. Political offices are now for sale (cf. Illinois).<\/p>\n

Good old Harry Truman was correct when he observed, “My choices in life were either to be a piano player in a whore house or a politician. And to tell the truth, there’s hardly any difference!<\/p>\n

I say dig him up and clone him!<\/p>\n

If you agree, you need not forward it. If you don’t, delete it. I don’t want to know one way or the other. By me forwarding it, you know how I feel.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Enjoy life now — it has an expiry date!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. It’s interesting to note that Australia’s longest serving Prime Minister, Bob Menzies,could not afford to buy a house when he retired and some wealthy friends in Melbourne donated one to him where he lived until he died.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    THE ONLY POLITICIAN IN SRI LANKA WHO CAN BE COMPARED TO **PRESIDENT HARRY**\u00a0 IS \u00a0“THE HONOURABLE DUDLEY SENANAYAKE” Susantha Wijesinghe\u00a0 Thought you’d enjoy this! It’s one you\u2019d want your Children and Grandchildren to read. They won’t believe this happened, but it DID. Harry & Bess (Seems unreal to ever have happened opposed to realities in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}