I’m not a Hillary fan, but if she can hitch a ride on a government plane that going where she wants to go anyway, what’s the problem?
That's not the way it works with political elites like Clinton. The expectation is that the Air Force is her private airline standing by to take her where she wants to go, not merely bumming a space-a ride to a place the Air Force just happens to be flying to(highly unlikely).
I doubt the AF flies into Westchester very often. VIPS flying on AF planes got way out of hand in the 80s. It started off when cabinet members wanted to fly space-a but rapidly escalated. Pretty soon Congressmen wanted flights from Washington to their home every weekend. After that we started getting calls asking about their family members and staff taking junkets to Hawaii. The AF isn’t staffed for this and it detracted from readiness to dedicate aircraft to a mission that we were never funded to support.
The result of the abuse was that Congress eventually cracked down on the abuse and came up with strict guidelines on when AF planes can be used. I don’t believe any of them included making a special trip to fly Hillary home for the weekend because she doesn’t want to spring for a charter or take a commercial flight.
” ... if she can hitch a ride on a government plane that going where she wants to go anyway, what’s the problem?”
Hillary is a private citizen, like I am. I doubt that I could call the nearest Air Force base and be given a seat, even on a space-available basis, on the next flight to Westchester or wherever.
The “problem” is that she is entitled and pushes others around either directly or indirectly. She is a waste of space and air.