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.
Sorry it took me so long,hee,hee.
AND HERE ARE 2 OTHERS THAT I FOUND
In the meantime, I'm bumping others who might be able to quickly lay their hands on some facts and link them here.
CONGRESS: ROGER CLINTON IN SHAKEDOWN Report ties Clinton's brother to airport bid
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
Sweetliberty, post #12 may help with your question.
“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
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