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Disappointing History
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RE: Disappointing History
(February 24, 2019 at 8:31 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote:
(February 23, 2019 at 9:28 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Actually, Washington did take a salary as President. What he declined was a salary as commanding general during the Revolution.  Smart as a whip, too - it's a helluva lot easier to pad an expense account as a soldier than as a statesman.

Boru

Plus the Colonials were desperate to keep GW in command, so they just ignored his bullshit expenses.


Here's a partial list:

Quote:
  1. Household Expenses Valley Forge Winter of 1777-1778: $2,000
  2. Telescope from France: $1274
  3. A light Phaeton (a “chariot”):$1,430 and a riding mare: $1248
  4. Decorating house in Cambridge with “Bedstead & Curtains, Mattrass, Blankets…”:  $546
  5. Damascus Cloth (probably table linen): $62.00
  6. 20 lbs. of tea: $468
  7. Household expenses (Nov. 21,1780-Sept.6,1781 including food like “pidgeons,” veal, eggs, “hurtleberries”, cork cask, 400 limes, Madeira wines: $20,800.
  8. French cook (recurring): $58.50
  9. Mrs. Washington’s traveling expenses: $27,665.30
  10. Interest charges for what Washington laid out: $7,488.


What clearly leaps out is Martha's traveling expenses.  $27665 in 1776 was roughly three quarters of a million today.  Ok, that's spread out over eight years, but...fuck. Wherever she was travelling, it must have been in a coach drawn by unicorns and attended by the Colonial Boy's Choir.

Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
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Messages In This Thread
Disappointing History - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - February 5, 2019 at 6:34 pm
RE: Disappointing History - by Gawdzilla Sama - February 5, 2019 at 7:41 pm
RE: Disappointing History - by ignoramus - February 5, 2019 at 7:49 pm
RE: Disappointing History - by Gawdzilla Sama - February 5, 2019 at 7:56 pm
RE: Disappointing History - by Dr H - February 7, 2019 at 5:07 pm
RE: Disappointing History - by Gawdzilla Sama - February 7, 2019 at 5:46 pm
RE: Disappointing History - by fredd bear - February 23, 2019 at 8:19 pm
RE: Disappointing History - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - February 23, 2019 at 9:28 pm
RE: Disappointing History - by Gawdzilla Sama - February 24, 2019 at 8:31 am
RE: Disappointing History - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - February 27, 2019 at 7:03 pm
RE: Disappointing History - by fredd bear - February 27, 2019 at 6:33 pm
RE: Disappointing History - by The Grand Nudger - February 7, 2019 at 6:33 pm
RE: Disappointing History - by Gawdzilla Sama - February 7, 2019 at 7:58 pm
RE: Disappointing History - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - February 8, 2019 at 1:55 pm
RE: Disappointing History - by Brian37 - February 7, 2019 at 8:47 pm
RE: Disappointing History - by Little lunch - February 24, 2019 at 3:08 am
RE: Disappointing History - by Rev. Rye - February 7, 2019 at 10:06 pm
RE: Disappointing History - by Jackalope - February 8, 2019 at 12:37 am
RE: Disappointing History - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - February 8, 2019 at 1:56 pm
RE: Disappointing History - by The Valkyrie - February 27, 2019 at 6:43 pm
RE: Disappointing History - by Little lunch - February 28, 2019 at 9:15 am
RE: Disappointing History - by fredd bear - March 2, 2019 at 6:39 pm
RE: Disappointing History - by Little lunch - March 3, 2019 at 12:48 am

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