WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House leaders have dropped plans to spend $550 million in the Air Force budget on passenger jets used by lawmakers and senior government officials, officials said on Monday.
The fact that they felt entitled to have the planes at all - and to spend that much money on them - especially in the middle of a recession, is what's particularly damning. That, and the fact that one plane suddenly ballooned in to four with apparently no oversight except public outrage is indicative of why the people of the United States are coming to believe more and more that our government considers themselves an oligarchy that is somehow above their "constituents." It's that kind of drunken spending that are making people have tea parties in protest.
The bottom line is - that's our tax dollars their so casually spending. If Washington would simply learn to say "no," then we could all get a huge tax cut. It's so easy for politicians to spend someone else's money.
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