Paid Speeches

I was kind of really amazed about the articles written by Rachel Rose Hartman from yahoo.com saying that former United States, President George W. Bush is earning from his speeches. Yes! It's my first time to hear someone earning as much as $15 million for 140 speeches. Is this such a good news or what? How could you imagined such amount where you valued per speech at $110,000? How true is it, we never know! 

But she goes on, citing another example of a former US president. Bill Clinton who also earned $65 million after his final term. The most interesting about Bill Clinton is that out of his total speeches, 36 of it is valued at $7.5 million or $208,000 per speech. Awesome isn't it?

I wonder if this is the case here in the Philippines. Now, this could be a stunning opportunities for famous and eloquent people whether in public or private speaking. This will be a great idea for people who are good speakers to earn as much as he wanted. And so the saying goes, "the things of this world are no longer free or even affordable.." that even speeches are paid. 

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