Did you read the recent news concerning Congressional travel, a/k/a 'junkets?'
It seems that the millions of dollars spent by our Congressional Representatives and Senators has doubled in something like the last 4-6 years, and is up some astronomical percentage over a decade.
It's a bi-partisan trough feed for our Federal piggies.
Wives attend, free, when government aircraft are used. Guess what's been expanding? Yep. The federal airliner fleet at Congress' disposal, as well as budgets and personnel to organize the use of said airplanes.
See, if our Congressional officials flew commercial on these3 junkets, wives would have to be paid for.
These people aren't shy about looting us taxpayers, either. One retiring Republican Representative admitted to taking a sort of 'round the world' farewell junket, before entering- what else- the lobbying trade?
It's sickening, isn't it? Of course, counting on the July 4th holiday to defuse this news, our elected federal hogs are back home folksing it up to appear just like one of us.
Disgusssting......
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