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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 05:51 PM
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Bastard Money Wasters! Should have to repay every dollar!
Report: Millions wasted on gov't travel By HOPE YEN, Associated Press Writer
41 minutes ago



WASHINGTON - Federal employees wasted at least $146 million over a one-year period on business- and first-class airline tickets, in some cases simply because they felt entitled to the perk, congressional investigators say.

A draft report by the Government Accountability Office, obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press, is the first to examine compliance with travel rules across the federal government following reports of extensive abuse of premium-class travel by Pentagon and State Department employees.

The review of travel spending by more than a dozen agencies from July 1, 2005, to June 30, 2006, found 67 percent of premium-class travel by executives or their employees, worth at least $146 million, was unauthorized or otherwise unjustified


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071002/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/government_travel_waste
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valerief Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 06:05 PM
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1. This is one spit in a an ocean of war waste. nt
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 07:16 PM
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3. Yes time for the spittoon. These arrogant fuckwads flying first class because they think they are
somebody on our fucking dimes grates the wrong direction on me.
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Bitwit1234 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 06:31 PM
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2. Just think add all this money up and
the Children's Health Bill would be funded, Social Security would be solvent and a hell of a lot of other social service programs in this monstrous administration.
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 07:16 PM
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4. Yes, but don't forget taking back the richie rich tax cut.
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