Re: 3 new jets for the millionaires club


"Mike" <foehammer72@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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$332 Million For New Luxury Jets To Ferry Congress
View Discussion Last Updated: Wed, 08/05/2009 - 1:54pm
Although lawmakers repeatedly chastised the private jet travel of
government-bailed auto executives, the nation's so-called public
servants have covertly allocated hundreds of millions of public
dollars to buy fancy new airplanes to ferry them around the globe.


The three Gulfstream 550 jets?each costing about $65 million?will be
purchased with a $332 million allotment that Congress conveniently
slipped into a defense bill. Passed in the House last month, the
measure originally included nearly $200 million for one executive jet
but the House Appropriations Committee added an additional $132
million for two more, according to the Capitol Hill paper that broke
the story this week.


The multi million-dollar addition specifies that the two extra elite
planes be assigned to the District of Columbia units that fly members
of Congress and top government officials. To circumvent earmark
disclosure laws, the $132 million allotment was classified as an
?expansion? of an existing Defense Department program so the
legislation need not reveal what lawmaker requested the additional
funds.


The taxpayer-financed planes are luxury business jets touted for
their
exceptional comfort and up to four distinct living areas, three
temperature zones and a choice of a dozen floor plan configurations
with seating for nearly 20 passengers. Public servants evidently feel
they deserve no less, even though they?re supposed to fly commercial
and many do.


The aircrafts are operated by the U.S. Military and members of
Congress, especially Speaker Nancy Pelosi, have been exposed for
abusing the perk. Earlier this year Judicial Watch made public
Department of Defense files documenting how the Speaker wastes
valuable taxpayer dollars by using the military aircrafts as her
personal airline to ferry her and her relatives around the world.
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What do you think airforce one is worth? And remember there is more than one
of them. Airforce one is the designation not the plane. Last I heard they had
2 or 3.

Fraser


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