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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 05:36 PM
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Bush administration wasted millions on government travel
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/02/bush-administration-wasted-millions-on-government-travel/

Bush administration wasted millions on government travel.

A Government Accountability Office report reveals “federal employees wasted at least $146 million over a one-year period in business or first-class airline tickets.” The report found that “67 percent of premium-class travel by executives or their employees…was unauthorized or otherwise unjustified. Among the worst offenders: the State Department, whose employees typically fly abroad on official business.”
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DURHAM D Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 05:40 PM
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1. Will this be the new Travelgate???
NO!
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ThomCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 05:42 PM
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2. Of course not. They're republicans.
The media doesn't hold republicans accountable unless it's a sex scandal.
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Solly Mack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 05:44 PM
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3. and will a penny of it be paid back?
No
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Quantess Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 05:45 PM
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4. Not surprised in the least.
They're such obscene money wasters.
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Thothmes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-02-07 08:02 PM
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5. Travel
I am reasonably sure that the charges can successfully leveled against just about administration you care to choose since the early 50's. Doest make it right, but the federal bureaucracy ability to squander the tax payers money is limitless. Just my opinion.
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