RSSThere Go The Libs … Out And About On Tax Payer Dimes
J.J. Jackson | July 3, 2009
Psst. Here’s a secret that lawymakers do not want to you know about. They are spending your money to take trips and doing so in greater amounts than ever before!
In fact, although even under Republican control of Congress such spending increased as well (and as we all know most Republicans are fairly liberal too) it has gone completely bonkers since the Democrats took over in 2006. The Wall Street Journal reports:
The spending on overseas travel is up almost tenfold since 1995, and has nearly tripled since 2001, according to the Journal analysis of 60,000 travel records. Hundreds of lawmakers traveled overseas in 2008 at a cost of about $13 million. That’s a 50% jump since Democrats took control of Congress two years ago.
The cost of so-called congressional delegations, known among lawmakers as “codels,” has risen nearly 70% since 2005, when an influence-peddling scandal led to a ban on travel funded by lobbyists, according to the data.
Lawmakers say that the trips are a good use of government funds because they allow members of Congress and their staff members to learn more about the world, inspect U.S. assets abroad and forge better working relationships with each other. The travel, for example, includes official visits to American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Members of Congress are not the Commander in Chief so justifying visits to the troops on the taxpayer dime is a bit of stretch don’t you think? Likewise, inspecting assets would also be an Executive Branch function one would think. So what is the real purpose of these trips? You know what they are … sightseeing and vacationing on the backs of working Americans.
Yet you cannot get Congressmen and women to read a 1,300 page bill on the topic of Cap and Trade? Or the “Stimulus” bill before that? Or “TARP” before that? None of which should have even been passed because the authority for such things even in the Constitution? Perish the thought! They are too busy rushing off to work on their tans to be bothered with actually doing their jobs! Besides they have slaves … I mean peons … I mean staffers who will tell them all about it right?
Now where’s that mojito? Hey! Is that a conga line? Wooo hoooo! PAAAAARTAAAAYYYYY!
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