Recently someone mentioned something about the President's salary being only about $250K. Based on the responsibility, and the amount of overall expense he or she manages, its ridiculous. How can you expect to attract talent at such low wages? Lets face it, Kerry and Bush aren't exactly the cream of the crop...All you end up with are wealthy ego maniacs. Same thing in Canada, in fact our Prime Minister has more millions than Bush does. There has to be a way to draw the absolute best candidate from the US population, and that won't be accomplished by offering them $250K when they can make millions in the private sector...What I think they should do is this: Have a $250K base salary, and then 3 years into the term conduct a large survey sample and pay the President a bonus based on a performance satisfaction survey. 10% satisfaction=1 Million, 80% satisfaction=8 Million. This way perhaps there might be some real talent competing for the position of power. This might be particularly useful for the public with president in his 2nd term resting on his laurels. $250K is a joke. That probably gets spent everytime Airforce 1 gets fired up to go to Texas.<br /><br />Just a thought...<br />;-)
