Biden sleepwalks his way to largest tax-paid pension in presidential history

OPINION:

Joseph R. Biden, due to his political service in several public offices — senator, vice president, president — will now draw the largest pension of any U.S. president. Ever. In History. 

Glory to the taxpayers. Biden may go down in history as “Sleepy Joe Biden” due to his “Weekend at Bernie’s” deadman walking way of moving around (that’s a reference to a 1989 movie, by the way). But he’ll do it in style.

He’ll do it laughing and joking all the way to the bank.

He’ll do it while cashing his annual $417,000 pension check — “the most hefty pension that any U.S. president has received,” as Market Realist wrote.

That’s more than the $400,000 per year he earned as president.

“It’s pretty unusual, historically unusual, to have such a large pension amount,” National Taxpayer Union Foundation President Demian Brady told the New York Post. “I would have to say that it’s the largest.”

Biden will be able to collect benefits under the Former Presidents Act of 1958 and from the Civil Service Retirement System. 

“The General Services Administration [just] budgeted more than $1.5 million for Biden, which is $727,000 alone for office space,” Market Realist reported.

And as Brady explained, “there’s no cap on the rent for that … no limit on the amount of square footage that’s being rented and funded by taxpayers.”

It’s for life.

“Biden Gets Largest Presidential Pension Ever, Double Obama’s,” Newsmax wrote in one headline.

At least Obama wasn’t brain-dead.

At least Obama didn’t call out wheelchair-bound people to stand and take a bow; didn’t call his vice president the president — more than once; didn’t thank dead people as if they were still alive; didn’t stumble aimlessly around the stage, as if looking for an exit — or entrance — or the stray ice cream cone; didn’t reach out his hand to shake air.

There’s something very immoral about providing a president who has topped the list of Worst Leaders Ever with a pension sum that surpasses every other commander-in-chief’s pension plan — and more so, using taxpayer dollars to do it.

Compare that with this, as reported by CBS News in 2016: “Donald Trump on refusing presidential salary: ‘I’m not taking it.’”

Biden may have “earned” his historically high pension with an equally near-historical high of public service years. But when using tax dollars to provide for political servants — shouldn’t quality count?

Shouldn’t actual service count?

“White House uses autopen photo for Biden portrait,” PBS NewsHour reported three months ago.

“White House hangs photo of Biden autopen signature instead of portrait,” CNN reported months ago, as well.

Money is certainly no reflection of character or skill.

• Cheryl Chumley can be reached at cchumley@washingtontimes.com or on Twitter, @ckchumley. Listen to her podcast “Bold and Blunt” by clicking HERE. And never miss her column; subscribe to her newsletter and podcast by clicking HERE. Her latest book, “God-Given Or Bust: Defeating Marxism and Saving America With Biblical Truths,” is available by clicking HERE.