Posted on 09/20/2011 12:36:25 PM PDT by grundle
The Justice Department spent more than $120 million in fiscal 2008 and 2009 to host law enforcement conferences across the country, many of which featured "extravagant and wasteful" costs for food, beverages and event planning, including spending $16 on each of 250 muffins served at an August 2009 legal conference in Washington, D.C., a report said Tuesday...
... another conference featured a lunch that cost $76 per person and coffee costing more than $1 per ounce. Other costly items cited in the report included a $32-per-person snack break consisting of Cracker Jacks, popcorn and candy bars, $7.32 Beef Wellington hors doeuvres, $10 cookies and $5 Swedish meatballs.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
That is highly disturbing.
The muffins were whole wheat. Half wheat were only $8 a piece.
that’s why I like it...like Zappa isn’t? ;)
That’s all well and good and whatnot, but I cringe at a govt dept having “banquets”
Remember the lib shrieking and heavy coverage when it turned out we paid double for troops in Iraq who took another plate to cover and keep their chow warm?
Let’s sit back and SEE how many Legacy Media outfits report the $16 muffins for the machine-gun smuggler.
Remember that drink costs for Nancy’s jet for ONE year amounted to over $100,000 —just the drinks.
Silence, serf! Just keep handing over your taxes and don’t question the luxuries enjoyed by your masters.
Amerikas nomenklatura
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=528809
Nomenklatura they are indeed.
What I would like to know more about is the Alaskan party planner supposedly brought in to do the party in CA. The Alaska angle intrigues me.
Then they need to have their conference somewhere else.
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