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"It's time to be patriotic ... time to jump in, time to be part of the deal, time to help get America out of the rut." Joe Biden - September 2008
I guess charging taxpayers to rent out a home to the Vice President's Secret Service detail (also paid by the taxpayers) is also "part of the deal" that we got when this walking gaffe machine became Veep. Thanks for being such a stand-up guy 'Plugs'.
Biden collects rent from Secret Service
$2,200 a month for cottage use
By Jim McElhatton-The Washington Times Updated: 7:42 p.m. on Sunday, July 31, 2011
The U.S. Secret Service does more than protect Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. — the agency also pays him rent.
Since April, Mr. Biden has collected more than $13,000 from the agency charged with protecting him and his family for use of a rental cottage adjacent to the waterfront home he owns in a Wilmington, Del., suburb.
Mr. Biden, listed not as vice president in federal purchasing documents but as a “vendor,” is eligible for up to $66,000 by the time the government contract expires in the fall of 2013, the records show
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