Congress’s Travel Tab Swells - WSJ.com
WASHINGTON — Spending by lawmakers on taxpayer-financed trips abroad has risen sharply in recent years, a Wall Street Journal analysis of travel records shows, involving everything from war-zone visits to trips to exotic spots such as the Galápagos Islands.
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.
In the last Great Depression, it was the capitalist swells who spent money like water. In the current Great Depression, it’s the politicians who spend and carouse like capitalist swine.
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That’s, of course, because they’re doing so on other people’s money - chiefly, the bulk of the ordinary, middle-class, wage-earning citizenry - via Gubmint-established and -sponsored graft (aka: tax-and-spend…and spend, and spend some more…)…
The New Capitalists - your friendly neighborhood “professional politicians” - the grifters who never stop grifting…