Clintons Voluntarily Cap Ex-Presidential Speaking Income At $65 Million A Year

“We’ll have to cut some corners in our family budget,” former U.S. President Bill Clinton told a hastily assembled Taipei news conference. “But Hillary and I have decided to limit the amount of income we will earn each year from speaking engagements with governments whose interests are often hostile to our own at $65 million.”

Clinton’s action took place one day after President Barack Obama capped banking executives’ salaries at $500,000 if their banks were receiving bailout money.

“In this economy,” Clinton told reporters, “we’ve all got to tighten our belts. If the bankers can get by on 500K, then Hillary and I will have to make do somehow with the $65 million.

“To paraphrase our wonderful new President, can we find the personal courage to turn down tens of additional millions of dollars in speaking fees from shady governments and foreign business people seeking to buy influence by paying us millions just to show up for an hour, make a speech, and do some ‘grip and grins’? Yes, we can!”