Nancy Pelosi and the House want to spend $550 million to purchase eight Gulfstream and Boeing Air Planes. While we weren’t looking the lawmakers doubled the order requested by the Obama House. Obama requested $220 million to replace 4 passenger jets. While I think the President of the United States and him immediate family should have a plane ready to go on a moments notice, Congress can fly commercial or use Air Force planes already in use. Speaker Pelosi is flying high on the taxpayers’ dime without a care to the cost.

The members of Congress are not so important that flying commercial airlines is beneath them. And I am talking about flying coach not first class even if they pay the difference. So many of the members have proclaimed themselves to be the hardest working people in American and are thereby entitled to having a private plane at their beck and call.

 

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Queen Nancy Pelosi

This is yet another example of the arrogances of our elected representatives. They are our representatives not our bosses. Is it just me but if you spend millions of dollars to get a job that pays $150,000 or so a year, would your friends and family not call you an idiot? Yet we just let Pelosi and the rest of Congress fly around on the taxpayers’ dime.

As is the norm during the August Recess, members of Congress schedule trips aboard. If they need to go overseas, fly commercial or hop a military flight headed that way. Or even better, use Cisco and have your meeting via teleconference. Think of all the carbon you will not emit not to mention the money we will save.

There is Bipartisan opposition in the Senate to purchasing the planes. But only time will tell if that is just for show with the 2010 mid term campaigns just 5 months away or if they will actually take and stand and stop it.

Senator John Thune (R., S.D.) said that buying new planes is “a classic example of Congress being out of touch with the realities of deficit spending.” Sen. Claire McCaskill (D., Mo.) said, “The whole thing kind of makes me sick to my stomach. It is evidence that some of the cynicism about Washington is well placed — that people get out of touch and they spend money like its Monopoly money.”

And of course only liberal logic would say that spending $550 million will save the government money down the road because it will be less expensive to operate and maintain the new planes. That is the same twisted logic used to create ‘Cash for Clunkers.’ Go and price a used car. You will faint at the price.

All the “Green” talk that the loony left espouses does not apply to members of Congress or former Vice Presidents. Oh they are not opposed to private planes they just don’t want us to have them. If they really believe in all the Green BS, then they should only fly commercial, military or better yet drive a Prius and set an example for your base.

America we need to wake up, take names, kick butt and take our country back from these idiots we keep sending to Washington. If we don’t, then Speaker Pelosi is going to continue flying high on the taxpayers’ dime.