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Its Easy When Its Isn’t Your Money

Jan 25, 2010 Political

The recent trip to Copenhagen for the summit on the hoax known as global warming cost US taxpayers about a MILLION dollars. The people who went to this event spent more per day for their rooms and food than most people sepnd a month on their mortgage.

For 15 Democratic and 6 Republican Congressmen, food and rooms for two nights cost $4,406 tax dollars each. That’s $2,200 a day – more than most Americans spend on their monthly mortgage payment.

CBS News asked members of Congress and staff about whether they’re mindful that it’s public tax dollars they’re spending. Many said they had never even seen the bills or the expense reports.

Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., is a key climate change player. He went to Copenhagen last year. Last week, we asked him about the $2,200-a-day bill for room and food.

“I can’t believe that,” Rep. Waxman said. “I can’t believe it, but I don’t know.” CBS News

Nancy Pelosi filed the disclosure and it had the names of everyone on it but that does not excuse Waxman or anyone else from not knowing how much this cost. They were spending OUR money for this trip and it is up to all of them to be fiscally responsible with our money. There is no excuse for not knowing how much of the taxpayer money was involved. They should know it before they ever embark on a trip and they should take decisions that involve the most judicious use of OUR money.

This is the attitude that one sees from people who are spending someone else’s money. If the money came out of their pockets they could tell you down to the shiny new Lincoln cent how much it was going to cost and how much it ended up costing. But since they are not paying the bills, they don’t really care.

They remind me of children whose parents have given them a credit card that is paid for, no matter how much is charged each month, by the parent. The kids do not learn responsibility and they spend frivolously because it is someone else’s money.

We need people in Congress who will look out for our interests and who will be good stewards of our money.

It is time to vote them all out and put fiscal watchdogs in there regardless of what party they claim as their own.

Tags: copenhagen, million dollars, taxpayers, wasteful spending

Maybe Ron Paul Really Has Supporters

Nov 7, 2007 Political

The news was out yesterday that Ron Paul raised 4.2 million dollars in one day. For a guy polling at 1% that is pretty good. I guess there must be something to this idea that he has an Internet grass roots thing going on. Perhaps these folks will be sleepers and show up on election day and make him a big winner.

It would be something if this guy won. I could just imagine the look on the faces of the front runners who have spent millions and are polling well ahead of Paul.

I also imagine that either the Ron Paul spammers are rich or he really does have a lot of support on the Internet polls.

Good luck to him, he will need it and congrats to his supporters. This is really amazing.

Source:
Breitbart

UPDATE: While the Ron Paul supporters are donating why not click the Project Valout IT link in the graphic and donate $5 to the troops?

Tags: election day, grass roots, million dollars, ron paul, supporters