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Need FReeper Help With Links To Clinton's Profligate Spending
March 26, 2002

Posted on 03/26/2002 6:14:11 PM PST by sweetliberty

I am specifically looking for references and documetation of the Clintons' world travels at taxpayer expense. I work with a person who is a liberal and feels it necessary to be provoking in his support of the ex- predator in chief. The subject came up this morning about executive abuses of taxpayer dollars and I brought it to his attention that the Clintons, separately, together, and in some cases with a huge entourage, had done more traveling around the world and spent more taxpayer money on it than every other president combined, to which he replied, "BULLSHIT!"

He asked if I could get him any documentation of that. I said I thought I could. It may be an exercise in futility....rational discussion with liberals often is, but I figured I'd give it a shot. I know I heard this reported at some point during the last 2 years of X42's reign of decadence and I figured there has to be some FReepers out there who will know just where to look. Be advised of course, that this person will look to discredit the sources, so the more solid the better.


TOPICS: Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: abuse; clinton; clintonhaters; liberals; money; taxpayers; vacations; waste

1 posted on 03/26/2002 6:14:11 PM PST by sweetliberty
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To: sweetliberty
Only complete site on Clinton corruption you'll ever need http://www.alamo-girl.com/
2 posted on 03/26/2002 6:21:14 PM PST by Bommer
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To: sweetliberty
Links to Clinton involvement in Enron would be useful too.
3 posted on 03/26/2002 6:22:47 PM PST by sweetliberty
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To: sweetliberty
Like I said only complete site on Clinton corruption you'll ever need http://www.alamo-girl.com/
4 posted on 03/26/2002 6:26:05 PM PST by Bommer
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To: sweetliberty
Detailed Review of Presidents’ Travel Crowns Bill Clinton “Harlem’s Honorary Globetrotter” Shatters Record for Tax-Funded Days Abroad; Total Cost Estimated to Top $1/2 Billion

Sorry it took me so long,hee,hee.

5 posted on 03/26/2002 6:29:38 PM PST by mdittmar
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To: sweetliberty
Heres one for Clinton/Enron
6 posted on 03/26/2002 6:29:44 PM PST by Bommer
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To: mdittmar
Excellent link! Thank you!
7 posted on 03/26/2002 6:37:11 PM PST by sweetliberty
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To: sweetliberty
OK ... I FINALLY found that article I mentioned ...

Enron Also Courted Democrats

AND HERE ARE 2 OTHERS THAT I FOUND

Ex-TVA director, Gore friend got large sums to aid Enron

Clinton 'sweetheart' deal sped up Enron's collapse

8 posted on 03/26/2002 8:22:28 PM PST by Mo1
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To: Mo1
Thanks for the posts Mo.
9 posted on 03/26/2002 8:31:43 PM PST by sweetliberty
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To: sweetliberty; Uncle Bill; Backhoe; Boyd; Wallaby; Alamo-Girl
I remember spefically that the costs of just one of Clinton's trips overseas cost something like double what the whole impeachment investigation cost. I'll see if I can dig up a link.

In the meantime, I'm bumping others who might be able to quickly lay their hands on some facts and link them here.

10 posted on 03/26/2002 8:45:54 PM PST by NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
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To: sweetliberty
Here is another one ...

CONGRESS: ROGER CLINTON IN SHAKEDOWN Report ties Clinton's brother to airport bid

11 posted on 03/26/2002 9:00:23 PM PST by Mo1
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To: NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
"President Clinton's world travel is fit for a king. Results from a newly released General Accounting Office report prove flagrant abuse of foreign-travel privileges by the Oval Office. These trips amount to a pillaging of tax dollars from the defense budget.

About a year ago, news reports began to surface about excessive spending for executive junkets. Curiosity prompted me to request the GAO to tally the tab passed to American taxpayers. Sens. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., and Craig Thomas, R-Wyo., co-signed the original request for GAO information in July 1998. The GAO told us the project would take years to finish because of the number of trips and complexity of financial reporting procedures. Instead, it added up the price tags for trips to Chile, China and Africa. The total came to $72 million, and $60.5 million of that -- 84 percent -- was siphoned at the expense of American military readiness.

The money came out of the U.S. defense budget -- specifically, the operations and maintenance account, which pays for the day-to-day operations of our military forces, including equipment maintenance and support, purchase of spare parts and training -- and from the Transportation Working Capital Fund."

Craig, Senator Larry (R-Idaho) Army Times October 18, 1999

12 posted on 03/27/2002 8:29:21 PM PST by Alamo-Girl
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To: Bommer; sweetliberty
Thank you for the kudos, Bommer!

Sweetliberty, post #12 may help with your question.

13 posted on 03/27/2002 8:32:53 PM PST by Alamo-Girl
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To: NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
Oops, forgot this:

“Critics say that, while it is necessary for the leader of the world's last superpower to travel overseas, it is not necessary for him to drag along the massive entourages of bureaucrats, aides and businessmen that Clinton did -- the net result being a wasteful depletion of resources from an already diminished U.S. defense budget. Clinton's jaunts were so frequent and so large that the GAO could audit only three 1998 trips for its review: trips to Africa, Chile and China." 165. Park, Scott WorldNetDaily October 18, 1999

14 posted on 03/27/2002 8:35:37 PM PST by Alamo-Girl
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To: Alamo-Girl
Good stuff, A-G! Glad to see you're still active here.

You may remember me as MadasHell.

15 posted on 03/28/2002 9:11:20 AM PST by NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
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To: Alamo-Girl
Thanks Alamo-Girl. I appreciate it.
16 posted on 03/28/2002 4:58:06 PM PST by sweetliberty
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To: NotJustAnotherPrettyFace; sweetliberty
I'm glad the information was helpful! Hugs!!!
17 posted on 03/28/2002 10:22:44 PM PST by Alamo-Girl
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To: clinton haters
indexing
18 posted on 03/29/2002 7:34:42 AM PST by Liz
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