EDITOR:
Today we are giving our presidents huge pensions while at the same time we are complaining about high salaries of CEO's in the private sector.
A president is no better than a CEO of any business. CEOs and presidents ought to be judged and compensated by the way they do their job.
A CEO has to increase the value of his company and at the same time show a profit for the share holders. A failure to do so would be the end of his job.
A president's job is to protect our citizens and to secure our borders. He also has to look out for the well being of his company and his share holders. In this case the company is the United States and the share holders are the citizens of this country.
This brings me to the point. Every four years we hear the same question: "Are you better off than you were four years ago?"
Well, if the answer is no, then why do we reward our CEO (president) with a lavish pension? Isn't it time we run our government more like a private business? After all, do we still have a republic, or are we to embrace the old world socialism?
Dieter Hoffmann
Coleville
