I thought I was upset when I heard that Nancy Pelosi spent $40,000 last year on flowers for her office, but now I find that many House members lease expensive SUVs and we pay for it. These are the same folks who refuse to drill oil in ANWR, refuse to eliminate the .50/gal gas tax (the oil companies only make .08/gal and they do all the drilling, refining, shipping, and distributing), and want us to radically change our lifestyles to reduce "man-made global warming".
What is it with these people? Can't they make do with a little less? Regular folks are having to trim back their household budgets, but the elitist politicians never seem to think basic economic principles apply to them. Many times while Will and I have read a chapter from Story of the World (Modern times) I have noticed that revolutions seem to occur when the regular people are treated like dirt while those in charge live in luxury. I don't yet see us at the brink of revolution, but there are a lot of ominous clouds on the horizon.
And it's not just the car, but gas, registration, insurance … the works. And there's no limit on how much they can spend. Congressman Charles Rangel was recently seen getting out of his Cadillac DeVille, which he leases for $774 per month. ...Congressman Gregory Meeks' Lexus LS460, which Meeks leases for $998 per month. All those leases are picked up by taxpayers through a little-known program available only to members of the House of Representatives.
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Is there a way to "check" on a state's representatives? I would be greatly interested to see costs incurred by our state's reps.
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