Posted on 01/10/2015 4:03:23 PM PST by bestintxas
Helping America's poor, aged and sick is the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' reason for being, but hundreds of its top officials are traveling in style and luxury at taxpayer expense.
Records obtained by the Washington Examiner under the Freedom of Information Act show that HHS executives spent $31 million taking 7,000 first class and business class flights between 2009 and 2013, including 253 trips for which a one-way ticket cost more than $15,000.
Half the records listed the price of a coach ticket for comparison. For that portion alone, the upgrade boosted the cost by almost $14 million, from $4.9 million to $18.5 million.
Federal employees are allowed to fly business or first class if the flight is longer than 14 hours, but only 1,400 of the 7,000 flights met that description.
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Boehner is the single greatest problem to the GOP. It is not Romney, Bushes or other RINOS, it is Boehner.
HHS an unconstitutional organization if there ever was one.
They should cut all funding and do away with it.
I don't have any problem with that for a one way outbound flight. The problem was that they let them come home.
My guess is the Lobbyist King Boehner, is benefitting his crony capitalists SOMEHOW in this maneuver.
Worthless public servants partying on the taxpayers’ dime. This BS has got to stop. It’s bad enough when we have to pay to take over Hawaii for Obama and friends.
There’s nowhere to cut the budget.
over 1 million members of the US armed forces paid due to John Boehner — Let’s remember to criticize him for this too. and also funding VA hospitals.
“over 1 million members of the US armed forces paid due to John Boehner — Let’s remember to criticize him for this too. and also funding VA hospitals.”
you will go down as bankrupt if you do not criticize the bad because you wish to keep the good.
you MUST go after ALL spending, or you will go bellyup.
And they want a gas tax?! Look how much is wasted all over the flippin’ place!
“HHS an unconstitutional organization if there ever was one.”
BTTT
I'll be happy to criticize him for a top heavy, bloated military that last won a war in 1945. Wait, let me correct myself. The General Staff did manage to beat Grenada.
Where the he** are they needing to go that costs $159 one way?
BIG GOVERNMENT IS CRONY SOCIALISM
Socialism Is Legal Plunder - Bastiat
The plunder continues.
DEPOPULATE plunderers from the body politic. DISMANTLE their collectives.
One of them is costing us even more, and will until he gets out of prison:
“And they want a gas tax?! Look how much is wasted all over the flippin’ place!”.........
A million here, a million there, pretty soon you’re talking real money. They “need” that gas tax money to protect their way of life. They haven’t done a damn thing about creating jobs so taxes can be collected via other means.
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