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EPA chief claims he needs first-class flights to avoid 'unpleasant' interactions with taxpayers
The Week ^ | February 14, 2018 | Jeva Lange

Posted on 02/15/2018 5:50:21 AM PST by ilovesarah2012

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To: tx_eggman

Bammy & Mooch’s DOG got a separate place to Martha’s Vineyard.——REALLY along with a Secret Service agent to handle the dog. THEY really knew how to milk the taxpayers.

Judicial Watch has compiled the costs to the taxpayers of THEIR ‘vacations’ & travel over 8 years..... The total is over $105,662,000.

How does that compare to Pruitt???


81 posted on 02/15/2018 10:22:55 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: The Sons of Liberty
Wasn't it something very similar that got Tom Price fired?

Price was flying private charters. Big difference. I have no problem with a Cabinet Secretary flying first or business class; but not their subordinates.

82 posted on 02/15/2018 10:33:17 AM PST by WASCWatch
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To: ilovesarah2012

I think that interacting with passengers in coach should be part of the job description.


83 posted on 02/15/2018 10:45:59 AM PST by Chickensoup (Leftists today are speaking as if they plan to commence to commit genocide against conservatives.)
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To: WayneS

He didn’t bump a customer in First Class to get his seat as did Sheila Jackson Lee.


84 posted on 02/15/2018 11:22:48 AM PST by Ozark Tom
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To: cyclotic

FWIW, a lot of the train ride was at night. Factor that in and that you don’t have as much hassle or time getting on and off the train, and it’s really not much worse than flying. I’d plan on driving, but not in the middle of winter.


85 posted on 02/15/2018 11:26:02 AM PST by grania (Deplorable and Proud of It!)
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To: ilovesarah2012

I probably wouldn’t recognize him either. But I also don’t have a job that used to depend on grants from the EPA to “study” global warming.


86 posted on 02/15/2018 11:30:34 AM PST by shoff (Vote Democrat it beats thinking!)
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To: ilovesarah2012
I recently watched a documentary on HBO - “Atomic Homefront”.

While I am not typically an environmentalist nor an alarmist and realize that HBO might not be a reputable source to some, but I you have a chance to watch it, it is well worth it. It made me angry, as should it anyone.

Representatives from the EPA and the Army Corps and the owner of the landfill continually talk down to these residents and then refused to talk to them at all.

The EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers and the landfill owner Republic Services have done nothing and continually downplay the risks, yet people along Cold Water Creek (North St. Louis County, Missouri) have had their homes and yards contaminated by radioactive waste, materials left over from refinement during the Manhattan Project, that was dumped many years ago in the nearby landfill, illegally BTW, and now a smoldering fire in the landfill is getting very close to reaching the nuclear waste, and there is a cluster of cancer cases and other illnesses associated with exposure to thorium 230.

It’s been designated as an EPA Superfund site since 1990, yet there’s been no cleanup or containment attempted and many of the residents never knew anything about it as it wasn’t disclosed to them when they bought or built their homes, and now they can’t even sell their homes and move away because their property values have plummeted.

https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2018/02/hbos-atomic-homefront-will-make-you-furious.html

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/atomic-homefront-1059723

Maybe Scott Pruitt could fly to St. Louis and talk to these people give them some honest answers and vow to help them. He could even fly there first class for all I care.

87 posted on 02/15/2018 12:01:04 PM PST by MD Expat in PA
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To: alancarp

Happens on every flight for my Congressman. Every single flight.


88 posted on 02/15/2018 7:05:11 PM PST by narses ( For the Son of man shall come ... and then will he render to every man according to his works.)
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To: dsrtsage

LOL, I worked at WalMart for years, the customers were more scary then the employees.


89 posted on 02/17/2018 3:13:39 PM PST by Joe Miner
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