I meant to post this earlier this week, but with everything else going on it was overlooked. Since Hillary Clinton, President Obama and a delegation from Congress are in Copenhagen trying their best to kill American sovereignty, I thought now is as good a time as ever to deliver the news.
The Wall Street Journal reported that Congress is travelling in style while we foot the bill.
The expenses racked up by U.S. lawmakers traveling here [Edinburgh] for a conference last month included one for the “control room.”Besides rooms for sleeping, the 12 members of the House of Representatives rented their hotel’s fireplace-equipped presidential suite and two adjacent rooms. The hotel cleared out the beds and in their place set up a bar, a snack room and office space. The three extra rooms — stocked with liquor, Coors beer, chips and salsa, sandwiches, Mrs. Fields cookies and York Peppermint Patties — cost a total of about $1,500 a night. They were rented for five nights.
While in Scotland, the House members toured historic buildings. Some shopped for Scotch whisky and visited the hotel spa. They capped the trip with a dinner at one of the region’s finest restaurants, paid for by the legislators, who got $118 daily stipends for meals and incidentals.
Eleven of the 12 legislators then left the five-day conference two days early.
The tour provides a glimpse of the mixture of business and pleasure involved in legislators’ overseas trips, which are growing in number and mostly financed by the taxpayer. Lawmakers travel with military liaisons who carry luggage, help them through customs, escort them on sightseeing trips and stock their hotel rooms with food and liquor. Typically, spouses come along, flying free on jets operated by the Air Force. Legislative aides come too. On the ground, all travel in chauffeured vehicles. ….
Remember this while you’re trying to make ends meet this December. Millions of Americans are out of work. Millions more worry about losing their jobs. The national debt is through the roof. And our so-called representatives are traipsing around the world, living the good life, and we’re stuck paying for it.
I was using quarters and dimes from the pocket change jar for gas last month.
And these jerks do this?
F*ckers!
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Where is Michael Moore? Where is “60 Minutes”? I remember all the outrage Congress had at the car manufacturing execs for flying into D.C. for hearings earlier this year! This is nothing but oligarch excess behavior on the backs of the taxpayer that the MSM plays along with in their twisted statist minds.
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Sam-Keep saving the change. It probably will get worse before it gets better.
Michigan-Michael Moore is at an all-u-can-eat buffet and hasn’t gotten the news yet.
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