Bush is being well compensated for taking care of the ultra-rich while he was in office.
http://powerwall.msnbc.msn.com/politics/dubyas-quiet-15-million-payday-1688801.story
DailyBeast, Friday, May 20, 2011, 3:41am (PDT)
By Peter H. Stone, for The Daily Beast
When George W. Bush declined President Obama's invitation to a ceremony at New York's ground zero after Osama bin Laden was killed, the former president cited his desire to keep a low public profile.
But Bush has been raising his profile in a different, and lucrative, way: He has raked in millions of dollars since leaving office by making scores of speeches that typically earn him six figures a pop.
In the week after Obama's May 5 ground zero event, the 43rd president made time for three separate speeches to hedge-fund executives, a Swiss bank sanctioned for keeping secret bank accounts, and a pro golf event underwritten by the accounting firm involved in the Tyco International financial scandal.
Bush's standard speaking fee is reportedly between $100,000 and $150,000.
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Sherzer notes Bush has made a commitment to speak pro bono at an event at ground zero this upcoming September 11, the 10th anniversary of the deadly al Qaeda attacks.
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