Posted on 01/06/2011 9:38:10 AM PST by tcrlaf
I think they have a point. If it costs $1 million per hour to run one house of the Congress (not including whatever money they decide to spend that hour), perhaps it would be better to just have Congress in session two months out of the year. The savings would be incredible.
Pelosi’s long, rambling and mindless speech yesterday must have cost us a bundle, too.”
Along with her costs of Pelosi Airlines—food & booze onboard—every single relative she ever thought she ever had stringing along for the free ride—Pelosi’s last weekend in power trip to Hawaii with all she could get to join her.
I would like to see what it has cost the taxpayers for Pelosi Airlines running costs for the past 2 + years.
While that auditor is at it, please try to firure the costs of all the ‘vacations’ Barry & Michelle took- both alone & together & with more than one plane.
Didn’t they have the DOG on a separate plane when they went to New England for 10 days???
Keep readint the Constitution, Republicans—maybe just a word or two will penetrate the heads of the Dummies who got us into this mess. You know which ones—they are the ones with the targets on their backs for the next election, also.
For that matter, why not take the entire legislative budget for G&A and direct labor, and assign the proportionate cost to each legislator. You know, something like each person we send to Washington costs us $683,000,000 per year and that's if they do nothing. Typically the cost goes up with the more they do.
We should use the private industry model, and make our expenses match or come in under our receipts. That way each representative would know that each had to find cuts of $683,000,000 from day #1 just to collect a paycheck the next year. If they don't, they get terminated. And no raising the taxes(anticipated revenues) to cheat either. That's how Enron collapsed.
Everything the conservatives try to do will be portrayed as “spending”. This is the taling point. Look for it to be repeated relentlessly by dems and their propagsnda organs.
It might cost that much if they where not already geting paid but since they are being paid anyhow, it would have cost that much regardless. Dumb liberal jackass, don’t have a clue
Where was the Liberalist cost estimate when a tv comedian was invited to speak at congress to make fun of the Constitution, as it relates to the serious topic of the lack of sensible immigration control, which he mocked. That had to be at least as costly by any similar back-of-envelope calculation. No leftist had any issues with that waste of time and resources. Oh, but the reading of the single most important document of our history, which SHOULD make liberals sweat, is somehow more of a waste of resources than some tv jack@$$ making liberals giggle. Not only should the Constitution be read in Congress, but every single word or every single bill before it can be voted on should be read. Do your jobs Congresscritters, read EVERYTHING out loud and STOP THE SPENDING!
Why don't the shrinks in the psychiatric industry analze the mentality of these whacked-out lefty politicians and crazy pretend-journalists as assiduously as they did Barry Goldwater without even knowing or examining him?
(...rhetorical question, of course).
Leni
They should read it at the start of every week the Congress is session to remind them what they are to follow!
That is an excellent idea!
Another faceless, nameless "expert on government waste."
Wonderful.
The only waste was the selective editing of the Constitution. Criminal House members may make up their own facts, but cannot make up their own edited version of our Constitution.
That certainly is cause for outrage. Not ONE spineless House membber, even the determined freshmen, had the balls (figuratively) to protest the editing of our founding document.
By the way, how much did it cost us taxpayers to coddle the perverts and allow them to serve in the military on their own terms (no one else can)? Anyone "back of the envelope" that one?
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