I AM STUPER SATIRE MAN!!!! OOK AT ME!!!!!! YAYYYY!!!!
Posted on 02/23/2013 9:36:15 AM PST by John Semmens
Senator Rand Paul (R-Ken) held a press event to announce he is returning $600,000 in unused funds to the US Treasury. The Senator said he was “proud of the fiscal prudence shown by my staff in making sure we are as efficient as possible with the taxpayers’ money.” This is the second time Paul has refunded money. Last year he returned $500,000.
Representative Mick Mulvaney (R-SC) also announced his office was returning $160,000 in unspent funds. “At a time when Americans are tightening their budgets, I have made an effort to do the same with my Congressional office budget,” Mulvaney said.
Presidential Press Secretary Jay Carney denounced the refunds, calling them “political grandstanding” and “deliberate attempts to undermine the nation’s confidence in the president’s program. Given the perilous state of the economy the President has made it clear that maintaining a high level of government spending is essential to sparking economic recovery. The savings on computers, paper and ink that Senator Paul boasts he has achieved are the exact opposite of what the President wants.”
The press secretary promised that “these uncooperative actions will not succeed. The amounts diverted by these Congressional misers are small enough that a single additional trip to a golf course outside of the D.C. area by the president can expend sufficient funds completely obliterate their negative impact.”
Carney speculated that “seeing their errant penny-pinching wiped out by a leisure expenditure benefiting the President could be a severe blow to the morale of these right-wing obstructionists.”
if you missed any of this week's other semi-news/semi-satire posts you can find them at...
http://azconservative.org/2013/02/23/administration-lashes-out-at-congressmens-failure-to-consume-office-budget-allowance/
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yeah that is about right
Right on the mark, John. Thanks !
Another good one.
OMG John. That’s a classic. Save for posterity. Thanks for the post, and the ping.
A lot of conressional offices get too much money. The excess is given to non profit operations during the year.
During their run for the office in the next election cycle those same non profits give money back to the congress member. Essentially they convert office money to campaign funds.
Brilliant! Thanks again for the ping.
That's hysterical. Thanks, John.
You had me going for a minute.
I AM STUPER SATIRE MAN!!!! OOK AT ME!!!!!! YAYYYY!!!!
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Senator Rand Paul (R-Ken) held a press event to announce he is returning $600,000 in unused funds to the US Treasury. The Senator said he was “proud of the fiscal prudence shown by my staff in making sure we are as efficient as possible with the taxpayers’ money.” This is the second time Paul has refunded money. Last year he returned $500,000.
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