Lets charge the Secret Service

The powers that be have a different morality than the morality in flyover land,  I find it reprehensible that they would charge the secret service.  The same people that would take a bullet for you rent to use the spare cottage on his property.  But they see it as a way to soak the taxpayers, the same taxpayers that are having a hard time making ends meet, the same taxpayers that pay increased taxes to fund the privileges that the uber-elite demand.   If I sound pissed....I am.  These people have no consideration for us taxpayers, they forget that they are in office to serve us, But they have the attitude of "we serve them"   I find that reprehensible.

Biden Collects $2,200 A Month In Rent From Secret Service

August 3, 2011 by Marcy Bonebright 

OFFICIAL WHITE HOUSE PHOTO BY DAVID LIENEMANN

Vice President Joe Biden makes a phone call from his home office in Wilmington, Del. It was recently revealed that the Vice President charges rent to the Secret Service to occupy a cottage adjacent to his home.

It has recently been revealed that Vice President Joe Biden does not just depend upon the Secret Service to protect him and his family — he is also the agency’s landlord.
“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,” read an article for The Washington Times.
“Edwin M. Donovan, special agent in charge at the Secret Service’s Office of Government and Public Affairs in Washington, said the agency pays $2,200 in rent per-month, the same amount a previous tenant had paid before moving out.”
According to the article, the Secret Service believes that occupying the cottage affords a “level of security for the Biden family the agency might not have had otherwise.”
“He should be afforded every single protection available to him and his family, as should every vice president and president,” said Leslie Paige, spokeswoman for the Washington-based Citizens Against Government Waste, in an interview with the newspaper. “You’d think the vice president, who shepherded the deficit committee, would think twice about charging the Secret Service rent. Why would he need the money? I don’t get it.”
According to the article, Biden’s mother lived in the cottage until her death in January 2010. On the contract, Biden is not listed as the Vice President, but reportedly as “vendor” — technically making him a Federal contractor.