An interesting story this past week in The Washington Post details Sen. Harry Reid’s extravagant trip to China this past April. The trip, which included some Republicans, cost the government at least $66,000 worth of per diem and “miscellaneous” expenses. Family members and staff also traveled on the taxpayer’s dime.
It’s no small wonder Congress has single-digit approval ratings – Harry Reid can’t seem to find the time to pass a budget, but he has no problem organizing sightseeing trips to foreign nations.
Not tabulated in the official expense report are the costs of transportation, specifically, the costs of a military jet flying over and back. The Pentagon bills around $10,000 an hour for such planes.
So figure a round trip to China is about 30 hours in the air and the bill for the plane – paid out of a special slush fund for these things – would be about $300,000. And that doesn’t include the various flights within China once the trip started….
Read more from Joe Miller on WND.com.
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What FOOLS WE ARE!!!!
THIS WOULD BE IN OUR FAVOR IF REID WAS KIDNAPPED IN CHINA. AMERICA WOULD BE BETTER OFF WITHOUT ALL LIBERALS. GOD BLESS AMERICA
Now that is something I can completely agree with! Fools. If we weren’t, we wouldn’t have this filthy family of trash in the once “white” House. This trash, I will say “black trash”, has done more damage, and more harm to America than every enemy she has ever had in her great history! No one, and nothing has ever been so damaging to America, than the trash now that sits and ruins everything it and they touch or even so much as cast a look at. And it was the fools that actually watched the purple, lying lips flap, and did not bother to think before they ran like little lemmings to the polls and voted for it! It. Fools, foolish, stupid, dimwitted, brain dead, brain damaged………..the list goes on and on, but when boiled down, it is plain downright stupidity of stupid white Americans who allowed, even contributed to the ABORTION NOW IN OFFICE!!!!!!!! We are “lead” straight into a hell of our own making by this idiot who only knows how to SPEAK, and NOT LEAD, unless he is LEADING US INTO HIS M U S L I M I C HELL, so that he and his muslime brothers can over run us and turn us all into obedient little muslimes, and steal from us every freedom that our forefathers fought and died for over 200 years ago, and every war fought since then, where our ancestors fought and died also, making it all useless and all FOR NOTHING because of the total, and complete stupidity of the American FOOLS OF TODAY! ALL TO PROVE THAT WE ARE NOT “RACISTS”! As if giving freedom to the slaves back then was not enough, now they want more. More off what? If more means “islime”, then, NO THANKS, I”ll KEEP MY CHRISTIAN LIFE STYLE AND MY CHRISTIAN NATION, and you FILTHY MUSLIMES CAN LEAVE ANYTIME YOU WANT! AND TAKE THE UGLY, PEICE OF TRASH THAT IS SPREADING HIS AND YOUR DISEASES OF ISLIME WITH YOU!!!!!!!!!! AND DON”T LET THE DOOR HIT YOU IN THE ASSES AS YOU LEAVE!!!!!!! islime. from hell and satan! I DON’T WANT IT!!!! I DONT WANT IT, OR HIM, Or HIS UGLY BUBBLE BUTT WIFE OR OFFSPRING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And if that sounded racist…………too bad, too sad, your dad.
Reid is like obummer always on the tax payer dime and a senile old bastard.
Dingy Harry knows how to screw the American taxpayers after all he came poor and will go out a millionaire.As far as some republicans going with him they to should be held accountable.To take your family on a vacation on the taxpayers dime is inexcusable.I guess they were envious of the Obummers.
These junkets are far too expensive to be allowed without a detailed justification and should only be authorized by an oversight panel in Congress by equal numbers from both party's and unanomous consent.