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Grapevine: Your tax dollars at work for former presidents

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    Report: Cable bills for Clinton, Carter

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Now some fresh pickings from the political grapevine here's a case of the revolving door that might get your blood boiling.

The Washington examiner reports the man who helped craft Obama cares regulations.

On insurers.

Will now make a lot of money.

By suing insurers.

Based on those regulations.

The examiner knows the trial lawyers situation is a subset of the broader dynamic.

Any congressional staffer or administration official makes himself more valuable to an industry by increasing government's role.

In that industry.

The daily caller found some eyebrow raising expenses of former president's that.

You are paying for.

Bill Clinton wired at least ten televisions in his offices to a premium suite of contents from DirecTV including HBO Cinemax and showtime.

For 185.

Bucks a month.

Jimmy Carter put at least two of his office television's on the DISH Network.

Good for 650 dollars of programming last year.

Although these expenditures.

Are consistent with current law it's worth pointing out that mr.

Clinton.

Has earned about nine -- million dollars for speeches since leaving office.

And mr.

Carter has taken and at least seven million dollars mostly from fourteen books he's written.

President Clinton is also being called after a statement -- a Consumer Electronics Show recently he said quote.

Half of all mass killings in the United States have occurred since the assault weapons ban expired in 2005.

Half of all of them in the history of the country.

The Washington Post fact checker.

Looked at a recent book identifying 156.

Mass public shootings defined as.

Four or more victims killed publicly within 24 hours since 2005.

When the assault ban expired.

There have been 32.

In other words about 20%.

Finally President Obama has spoken out for equal pay between men and women in the workforce but his own White House does not apparently live up to that standard.

The administration's annual report to congress indicates that while women comprise half of the 468.

Staffers.

They make.

13%.

Less on average than their male count ports.

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