Posted on 02/16/2009 7:53:58 PM PST by Hythloday
Senator Sherrod Brown took a private, taxpayer-funded plane from Cleveland to Washington and back so he could vote on the stimulus bill and get back to his mother's funeral the next day. Will he have to appear before Congress and be excoriated for flying on a private jet?
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If Congress was consistent in punishing executives needing bailouts, all our politicians’ jets would be taken away, and their salaries cut in half, if not more, for the extra several trillion THEY have put ALL OF US on the hook for.
Everyone who voted needs to literally be tarred and feathered and run out on a rail.
Does the movie “Idiocracy” ring a bell?!
True...of course the Wall Street bankers also flew in on private jets..except one forgot who.
Pretty sure that everyone is using the term ‘private’ to distinguish from a commercial plane. The reports I have seen have identified it as a government plane (not AF1), so it very likely was a military plane.
The President himself has acknowledged that the expense of the flight is being borne by taxpayers and that it was considerable.
In the future, please content from your blog into our bloggers forum.
Thanks,
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