WHEN IS ENOUGH / ENOUGH?

While the American people are flooded with TV Ads, bill boards, posters,bumper stickers and various other reminders that this is an election year we should pause to consider this: Why does government cost us so much?
For starters consider this.  The American people, you and I, pay our president 400,000 dollars each year to be at the helm.  Then we give him/her an expense account of 50,000 dollars.  Of course he/she must travel so we give him/her another 100,000 dollars.  Oh yes, then there is the matter of entertainment????  So 19,000dollars for that item.  So far so good.
Then then VP must be paid.  That is another 233,000 dollars from our collective pockets, plus expenses, travel, etc.
The Congress must be paid and they come in at 174,000 dollars apiece.  I won't bother to add it all up/ might spoil your day.
Of course, to make a bad thing worse, the People of this great and generous country give each of them a nice salary when they leave office.  That is so they won't have to get a job and work a little like you and me.
Why do we pension Presidents?  Are they not employable? 
When Pres. Hoover left the White House he carried his bags to the station and went home--having never taken a salary while in Washington.  Roosevelt died in office (no pension).  Harry Truman and Bess just went home and took a vacation (no Secret Service either).  Congress did, a couple years later give him a pension of 25,000 dollars.  Now the practice has gotten out of hand when those elected can vote themselves a raise???.....Medicineman!