***THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPALS OF A LIMITED GOVERNMENT WAS SOMETHING OUR FOUNDING FATHERS FOUGHT
AND DIED FOR. THE INCREASE AND EXPANSION OF GOVERNMENT AND THE CURRENT EFFORTS TO "RE-DISTRIBUTE" THE WEALTH IS DESTROYING AMERICA***NANCY PELOSI
The House Speaker normally used a
USAF-C20B jet called The Gulfstreamer III. Pelosi was very upset that the jet had to stop and re-fuel on the trips back and forth to her native California. So she ordered a 20 seat,USAF
C-32 Boeing 757 jet which costs taxpayers $480,000.00 per month. WORLD NET DAILY reports that $101,000.00 of receipts is made up of "in flight services" consisting of assorted liquors,
beers, and wines. The average expenditures for those "in flight services" average about $1000.00 per week. WORLD NET DAILY also report of her military oversees business trips.
Over a 2 year period her military travel cost has been $2,100,744.59. One trip to Baghdad included members of Congress and their spouses included a long list of alcoholic drinks and the cost
averaged $17,931.00 per day. WORLD NET DAILY also reported that a 2007 trip to Israel, she ordered that only KOSHER food items be sent to her room and KOSHER alcohol for mixing beverages.
THE FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION spent $350,000.00 to sponsor NASCAR driver David Gilliland.
THE REFUSAL OF MANY FEDERAL EMPLOYEES to fly coach costs taxpayers $146 million annually.
WASHINGTON will spend $2.6 million training prostitutes to drink responsibly on the job.
THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT owns more than 50,000 vacant homes and spends $25 billion annually maintaining
unused/vacant federal properties.
MEMBERS OF CONGRESS have spent hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars on supplying their offices with popcorn machines, plasma televisions, iocin air
freshners, DVD equipment and camcorders, plus the expenses of leasing Lexus automobiles and $84,000.00 on personalized calendars.
WASHINGTON spent $1.8million to help build a private golf course in Atlanta, Georgia
AIR FORCE AND NAVY PERSONNEL used government funded credit cards to pay for $102, 40.00 on entertainment
admissions, $48,000.00 on gambling, $69,300.00 on cruises and $73,950.00 on exotic dancers.
AUDITS showed $34 billion worth of Dept. of Homeland Security contracts contained significant waste,
fraud, and abuse.
COMMERCE DEPARTMENT has lost 1,137 computers since 2001, many containing American's personal data.
CONGRESS recently spent $2.4 billion on 10 new jets that the Pentagon insists it does not need and will not use.
THE STATE OF WASHINGTON sent $1.00 food stamp checks to 250,000 households in
order to raise state caseload figures and trigger $43million in additional federal funds.
MEMBERS OF CONGRESS are set to pay themselves $90 million to increase their franked mailings for the
2010 election year.
FEDERAL AGENCIES ARE DELINQUENT on nearly 20% of employee charge cards, costing taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars in late fees annually
***THE TOTAL COST FOR ILLEGAL ALIENS IS $338.3 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR***
$11 TO $22 BILLION is spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year
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