by Pa Rock
Citizen Journalist
Anyone who has ever held a job from which they planned to retire knows the knot that forms in the belly from anticipating things that could wreck that plan. Illness could derail it, the pension funds could fall into the pockets of corporate raiders, the company could go bankrupt, or, God forbid, the potential retiree could be fired before he or she reaches the finish line. Retirement plans are particularly susceptible to surprises in the corporate sector, but often those who make it into the realm of government employment have a stronger chance of reaching retirement and finding the funds still there when they do.
For the past several months Donald Trump has been targeting former FBI Deputy Director (and former Acting Director) Andrew McCabe for dismissal. One of Trump's complaints about McCabe was that he had let former FBI Director James Comey fly back to Washington, DC, on a government plane after Comey had been fired while at a speaking engagement in California. Trump's dismissal of Comey apparently contained a fantasy figment of the FBI chief standing in line at a crowded airport trying to buy a ticket home.
Trump has characterized McCabe as a political player, openly criticizing McCabe's wife's run for a public office in Virginia as well as resenting McCabe's apparent defensive posture regarding James Comey.
Trump was also openly disdainful of the fact that McCabe was on the verge of retiring from government service with full benefits, and he has been bemoaning that fact on Twitter for three months. Trump's tool, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, fired McCabe just twenty-six hours before that retirement would have become a reality. Sessions fired McCabe over "ethical" concerns, this from a man who couldn't "remember" much more than his name when he testified before Congress about his dealings with Russians!
Trump called the firing of McCabe "a great day for the hard-working men and women of the FBI," and he also referred to the firing as "a great day for democracy." While it may have been a great day for Trump's ego, others see it as being one more volley in the White House's inexplicable war on law enforcement and the FBI.
A bunch of lawyers will make a bunch of money before the dust from this Trump tantrum finally settles, but when it does I suspect that presidential vindictiveness will lose out to fairness and common sense - and McCabe will get his retirement pay and benefits. But in the meantime he will continue to suffer the gastronomical upset that comes with worrying about reality of retirement.
Donald Trump has shown Andrew McCabe, as well as the rest of us, just how fragile and fleeting our retirement plans really are. A deranged despot can wreck everything.
Citizen Journalist
Anyone who has ever held a job from which they planned to retire knows the knot that forms in the belly from anticipating things that could wreck that plan. Illness could derail it, the pension funds could fall into the pockets of corporate raiders, the company could go bankrupt, or, God forbid, the potential retiree could be fired before he or she reaches the finish line. Retirement plans are particularly susceptible to surprises in the corporate sector, but often those who make it into the realm of government employment have a stronger chance of reaching retirement and finding the funds still there when they do.
For the past several months Donald Trump has been targeting former FBI Deputy Director (and former Acting Director) Andrew McCabe for dismissal. One of Trump's complaints about McCabe was that he had let former FBI Director James Comey fly back to Washington, DC, on a government plane after Comey had been fired while at a speaking engagement in California. Trump's dismissal of Comey apparently contained a fantasy figment of the FBI chief standing in line at a crowded airport trying to buy a ticket home.
Trump has characterized McCabe as a political player, openly criticizing McCabe's wife's run for a public office in Virginia as well as resenting McCabe's apparent defensive posture regarding James Comey.
Trump was also openly disdainful of the fact that McCabe was on the verge of retiring from government service with full benefits, and he has been bemoaning that fact on Twitter for three months. Trump's tool, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, fired McCabe just twenty-six hours before that retirement would have become a reality. Sessions fired McCabe over "ethical" concerns, this from a man who couldn't "remember" much more than his name when he testified before Congress about his dealings with Russians!
Trump called the firing of McCabe "a great day for the hard-working men and women of the FBI," and he also referred to the firing as "a great day for democracy." While it may have been a great day for Trump's ego, others see it as being one more volley in the White House's inexplicable war on law enforcement and the FBI.
A bunch of lawyers will make a bunch of money before the dust from this Trump tantrum finally settles, but when it does I suspect that presidential vindictiveness will lose out to fairness and common sense - and McCabe will get his retirement pay and benefits. But in the meantime he will continue to suffer the gastronomical upset that comes with worrying about reality of retirement.
Donald Trump has shown Andrew McCabe, as well as the rest of us, just how fragile and fleeting our retirement plans really are. A deranged despot can wreck everything.
1 comment:
Andrew McCabe will be just fine. What he stands to earn from the talk circuit, book, and motion picture royalties will have him laughing to the bank.
Beyond the outrage of Trump having run amok and Sessions being a weak person is the personal discomfort McCabe will face. He had to go home to his wife, that Democrat, and admit she was right all along. So many real Republicans face this indignation in the aftermath of the radicalization of their party; well like the man said the "bell tolls for them."
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