Copenhagen Climate $ummit
January 26th 2010 04:48
Ah, yes. The House expense reports are in. The total cost (excluding Obama's entourage) to the US taxpayers for that little trip to Copenhagen last month? $1.1 million.
Just $1.1 million for a quick trip? Hey, that sounds fine. It's not like the US is in a RECESSION or anything, right? It's not like we have 10% unemployment. It was important -- CRITICAL, even -- to use truckloads of those scarce taxpayer dollars in order to attend such a monumental event. We just had to be there in large numbers to prove how doggone serious we are about this issue.
And, of course, I'm sure Nancy Pelosi and her merry band of dimwits flew over in those special new planes that don't use fuel and don't emit hydrocarbons. Am I right? Only a complete and utter hypocrite would fly halfway across the world on several airplanes that spit and sputter emissions into the atmosphere just so they could attend a summit to talk about how to reduce emissions in the atmosphere. Surely, our "leaders" aren't that hypocritical, are they?
And, finally, even if they did spend over a million dollars that our crippled nation doesn't have -- and even if they did fly to a global warming summit on planes that pump emissions into the atmosphere -- at least they solved the problem, right? Surely such a huge commitment resulted in some significant accomplishments. Uhhhh...no -- not by a long shot. It resulted in the diplomatic equivalent of bupkis.
Oh, yeah. Our country's in great hands with this bunch in charge.
Total hotel, meeting rooms and "a couple" of $1,000-a-night hospitality suites topped $400,000.
Flights weren't cheap, either. Fifty-nine House and Senate staff flew commercial during the Copenhagen rush. They paid government rates -- $5-10,000 each -- totaling $408,064. Add three military jets -- $168,351 just for flight time -- and the bill tops $1.1 million dollars -- not including all the Obama administration officials who attended: well over 60.
Flights weren't cheap, either. Fifty-nine House and Senate staff flew commercial during the Copenhagen rush. They paid government rates -- $5-10,000 each -- totaling $408,064. Add three military jets -- $168,351 just for flight time -- and the bill tops $1.1 million dollars -- not including all the Obama administration officials who attended: well over 60.
Just $1.1 million for a quick trip? Hey, that sounds fine. It's not like the US is in a RECESSION or anything, right? It's not like we have 10% unemployment. It was important -- CRITICAL, even -- to use truckloads of those scarce taxpayer dollars in order to attend such a monumental event. We just had to be there in large numbers to prove how doggone serious we are about this issue.
And, of course, I'm sure Nancy Pelosi and her merry band of dimwits flew over in those special new planes that don't use fuel and don't emit hydrocarbons. Am I right? Only a complete and utter hypocrite would fly halfway across the world on several airplanes that spit and sputter emissions into the atmosphere just so they could attend a summit to talk about how to reduce emissions in the atmosphere. Surely, our "leaders" aren't that hypocritical, are they?
And, finally, even if they did spend over a million dollars that our crippled nation doesn't have -- and even if they did fly to a global warming summit on planes that pump emissions into the atmosphere -- at least they solved the problem, right? Surely such a huge commitment resulted in some significant accomplishments. Uhhhh...no -- not by a long shot. It resulted in the diplomatic equivalent of bupkis.
Oh, yeah. Our country's in great hands with this bunch in charge.
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And as S.L. said they are getting everything they can now before we go bankrupt or kick them out of office, ever which comes first. I think we are bankrupt now though.
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