While We Are Told to Sacrifice, Congress Travels the World at Taxpayer Expense

It seems that we are constantly being told by this administration that we have to sacrifice. We need to sacrifice to stop global warming and we have to sacrifice for healthcare, the list goes on and on. But their is one group of people who don’t seem to feel that the sacrifice that we are asked to make applies to them. And that group is the very people who ask us to sacrifice– the politicians. Taxpayer funded travel by politicians has risen tenfold since 1995, and in recent years the rate of growth in taxpayer funded travel has skyrocketed. The spending on overseas travel is up almost tenfold since 1995, and has nearly tripled since 2001, according to the Journal analysis of 60,000 travel records Not to be outdone by the Bush administration the Democrats have taken it to a new level. Hundreds of lawmakers traveled overseas in... [read full story]                    

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