“Trump’s gang of imitation moguls seems to have forgotten that it was supposed to be working for the “forgotten Americans.” It’s hard to make that claim when you use a private jet 24 times, as Price did, according to Politico. This cost a total of $300,000, and we paid for it.”
“We recently learned that Mnuchin wanted to use a government airplane to shuttle him and his wife Louise Linton around Europe during their honeymoon. This would cost taxpayers $25,000 per hour. Some sane person denied the request, but months later, Mnuchin and Linton managed to finagle a government jet to view the solar eclipse in Lexington, Kentucky. "
“DeVos, the Education Secretary, is a billionaire who uses her own private jet. That’s progress on the ethical front, I suppose. But the U.S. Marshals who provide her constant protection send their bill to the same Americans who are paying for Price, Pruitt and Mnuchin to live out their fabulous fantasies of federal employment. So far, protecting Betsy DeVos has cost Americans $8 million.”
“That sum, already enormous, seems even greater when you consider all the Republican preaching about fiscal responsibility. Trump’s budget chief, Mick Mulvaney, wanted Meals-on-Wheels eliminated. We don’t have money for health care, we certainly don’t have money for foreign aid or public housing. That would make us socialists. But, my God, we can’t have Tom Price taking a train Philadelphia!”
Most personal transportation for government employees could be carried out on military transport. I’m not saying troop transport. There are different levels of military transport. But by God, these people who think they are so important that they need Air Force One to go on a honeymoon, or check in with an office in a different city are making the American people pay taxes for their ego trips.
Goldwater and Kennedy planned on traveling on Goldwater’s plane around the country to debate each other in the 1964 Presidential Election. They were good friends (even though they were political opposites). Unfortunately, Lee Harvey Oswald put an end to those plans.
As a government employee, I was required to take whatever flight was the cheapest, even if it meant spending all day traveling, because my time was apparently worth nothing, and for the last decade of my career, I was at the top of the General Schedule pay scale. Multiply that be the thousands of employees who travel everyday. I fail to see how a few cabinet members’ time is so important that they have to have private jets, not to mention their use of the executive military fleet.
Baslim the Beggar Premium Member over 6 years ago
Truman used an Air Force transport. A C-54, originally for FDR, called “The Sacred Cow” and then had a DC-6 to use.
Masterskrain Premium Member over 6 years ago
Today they are known as “Trump Family Airlines”.
Silly Season over 6 years ago
http://www.newsweek.com/trump-pruitt-price-devos-669853
“Trump’s gang of imitation moguls seems to have forgotten that it was supposed to be working for the “forgotten Americans.” It’s hard to make that claim when you use a private jet 24 times, as Price did, according to Politico. This cost a total of $300,000, and we paid for it.”
“We recently learned that Mnuchin wanted to use a government airplane to shuttle him and his wife Louise Linton around Europe during their honeymoon. This would cost taxpayers $25,000 per hour. Some sane person denied the request, but months later, Mnuchin and Linton managed to finagle a government jet to view the solar eclipse in Lexington, Kentucky. "
“DeVos, the Education Secretary, is a billionaire who uses her own private jet. That’s progress on the ethical front, I suppose. But the U.S. Marshals who provide her constant protection send their bill to the same Americans who are paying for Price, Pruitt and Mnuchin to live out their fabulous fantasies of federal employment. So far, protecting Betsy DeVos has cost Americans $8 million.”
“That sum, already enormous, seems even greater when you consider all the Republican preaching about fiscal responsibility. Trump’s budget chief, Mick Mulvaney, wanted Meals-on-Wheels eliminated. We don’t have money for health care, we certainly don’t have money for foreign aid or public housing. That would make us socialists. But, my God, we can’t have Tom Price taking a train Philadelphia!”
drivingfuriously Premium Member over 6 years ago
I don’t have an airplane, just a truck and a dispatcher.
Sadandconfused9 over 6 years ago
Most personal transportation for government employees could be carried out on military transport. I’m not saying troop transport. There are different levels of military transport. But by God, these people who think they are so important that they need Air Force One to go on a honeymoon, or check in with an office in a different city are making the American people pay taxes for their ego trips.
Godfreydaniel over 6 years ago
People who were born on third base (yet think they hit a triple) always seem to want the taxpayers to get them home……..
Charlie Tuba over 6 years ago
Goldwater and Kennedy planned on traveling on Goldwater’s plane around the country to debate each other in the 1964 Presidential Election. They were good friends (even though they were political opposites). Unfortunately, Lee Harvey Oswald put an end to those plans.
katzenbooks45 over 6 years ago
As a government employee, I was required to take whatever flight was the cheapest, even if it meant spending all day traveling, because my time was apparently worth nothing, and for the last decade of my career, I was at the top of the General Schedule pay scale. Multiply that be the thousands of employees who travel everyday. I fail to see how a few cabinet members’ time is so important that they have to have private jets, not to mention their use of the executive military fleet.