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Sieben Posted: Mon, Apr 19 2010 8:12 PM

Where's his money from? Does he invest in pharmaceutical companies? ;) Do special interest groups directly impact his personal livelihood (outside of campaign contributions, these are easy to find)

I know bush was part of the carlyle group, which exstensively invested in the military industrial complex prior to the war in iraq.

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Chris replied on Mon, Apr 19 2010 8:21 PM

I actually just read the other day that he raked in like $5 million last year; most of it from book sales and I believe the US President makes about $500,000/year.

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Sieben replied on Mon, Apr 19 2010 9:50 PM

Peanuts...

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Sieben replied on Tue, Apr 20 2010 4:14 PM

I would really like an answer to this. I have scoured the internet and can find naught be campaign contributions.

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Speaking fees, maybe?

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Sieben replied on Tue, Apr 20 2010 4:32 PM

My intuition says that he ought to be personally profiting from all this, beyond the normal glory of being the president.

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