Reason #8402 Why I Hate Republicans
They will screw you every chance they get and try to make you think they’re doing you a favor.
“Today, I will write a personal check to the U.S. Treasury for the expenses of my travel on private charter planes,” Price said in a statement. “The taxpayers won’t pay a dime for my seat on those planes.”
“… for my seat …” Cute, huh?
He pays for his seat and we pay for the rest of the airplane because … well, we are suckers. Price did not charter a seat. He chartered an airplane. So next time he can charter an airplane seat, a mess of helium balloons, and a sack lunch.
And while we’re doing this, let’s talk about another damn reason I hate Republicans.
In Puerto Rico we are having what Sanjay Gupta called a “humanitarian crisis.” Humanitarian crisis happens in third world countries, not the United States of Damn America.
And amid his talk of of restoring the Paris Hilton/Ivanka Trump inherited tax credit, Trump tweeted this morning.
We can’t afford to rebuild the homes of American citizens? We have to stop and think about that because … well hell, they’re in an ocean, a really, really big ocean.
What the damn tarnation hell is wrong with Republicans?
In Texas, we have Governor Greg Abbott, and the minute the cameras left town he put his grubby fist around Texas’ Rainy Day Fund and refuse to help rebuild the Gulf Coast. Good Lord, J J Watts and Deshaun Watson did more to help than my own state government.
Okay, I’m gonna go find something to laugh about now. It’s Friday!
Thanks to everybody for the heads up.
I noticed that Price’s “apology” is not what most people would consider an apology. He basically said, “sorry you got upset,” not his responsibility.
1He paid back 52 grand and the bill was over 300 grand. Nice work if you can get it.
On another plane (no pun intended) Roy Moore assured his election. He didn’t bother to pay taxes on over 150 grand of income from speaker’s fees. Nothing ensures a wingnut electoral success like crime.
2ps Price lied several times trying to explain commercial flights weren’t available.
3And the honorable General Honore, the guy the Rethug administration had to send in after Katrina, has nothing but pungent things to say about the way the Barking Yam DID NOT handle the crisis in Puerto Rico.
It aint just Price of Zinke or Pruitt, its the whole damn list!
4Hi, JJ; i was so pleased to see that cruise ships are now included in the Puerto Rico and other Caribbean islands assistance. You did good!!
5http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ryan-zinke-charter-plane_us_59ce157fe4b06791bb0fc6d8
Burn the capitol down!
6And does anyone have the slightest doubt what would have happened if Hillary had been president? 1. FEMA and NOAA would have been fully staffed with competent, experienced people, and ready to go. 2. She would have known that aid would be needed immediately and would have ordered that it be staged beforehand and ready to head out the next day. 3. She would have had a plan that covered food, water, medical needs, communication, transportation, and been making sure it was working, with someone competent in charge of federal efforts,coordinated with local. And 4) she would be thinking ahead to figure out what could be done in rebuilding not only to help people in next months but to plan for future.
To my incredible joy, I scored two PRIMO seats to her talk here in a week. My question for her, if I get to ask, is what she’d suggest for PR moving forward. I bet she has something to say, even if Mango Mussolini is not inclined to listen!
7Donnie’s new big plan is to send a 3 star to Puerto Rico. Looking backward, they’ve also belatedly determined that some transportation regiments are also vital. They have yet to address their first misstep: where are the Air Force logistical planners? These are the guys & gals who can stage a 250,000+ deployment to Iraq. Believe me, Donnie, they can direct the relief effort for 3.5 million American citizens.
Apparently Gen Kelly is too busy failing to keep Donnie’s twitter fingers under wrap to drill into his thick skull exactly what resources are available and how to best deploy them.
8Hang them all. With the scratchiest rope you can find.
9The source with knowledge of Price’s intentions said that the secretary will pay $51,887.31, about 13 percent of the $400,000 that Politico estimated was spent on as many as 26 chartered flights. Price confirmed that he would pay for his “portion” of the total cost in an interview with Fox News Thursday afternoon.
Giant Air Force cargo planes can land just about anywhere as was proven in VietNam and the ME.
10What is not happening in PR is a shame. These are Americans, not Americans in a foreign county but in an American Country! Do something now , this is why all states have a national Guard, get them there, clean the roads and then drive the supplies around, I am fuming about this!
11Price socks it to taxpayers for $300K and thinks he’s being generously angelic by paying back a fourth of that. Sorta like his boss slashing millions from the National Park Service and then loudly donating his quarterly salary to them for battlefield park maintenance. Big whoop, robber barons.
And the lack of response to Puerto Rico is a humanitarian outrage and a disgrace. People are miserable, sick, and some are dying. There’s no gas to power generators for dialysis patients. Let’s have Donnie & Ivanka try to feed some kids with no electricity, running water, drinkable water, or food, and no gas to get to a store and nothing in the store if you could get there. Now multiply that by a few million. Send in the bloody military to clear roads, distribute supplies, and help people!
12Trump’s approach to disaster relief is another example of American exceptionalism. Where are all his right-to-life supporters clamoring for him to help the Puerto Rican citizens? So tired of the bigotry. Next act: watch his cronies carve up the island for their own benefit. Vultures.
13Remember a certain lying scoundrel named Rumsfeld? Yeah. That guy. He said something to the effect, “you go with the army you have, not the one you want.” He lied and then he borrowed Guard units from 50 states, Guam, Puerto Rico, and everywhere we had sticks. Bamz brought many of them home. But Bamz had to work with a non-working Congress. So after multiple deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq, it is difficult to speculate as to the disaster readiness of any units anywhere. Not much information as to the status of the PR’s 44 facilities post hurricane or their recovery from the Rumsfeld effect. But “not good” is a likely estimate; a guess based on the fact that Coast Guard units on the East Coast are activating cadets for disaster relief in Puerto Rico.
Dolt45 and his gang were bragging about some 1 million meals (not yet distributed) but “on site.” That’s to feed 3.5 million people. Donnie isn’t too good at math.
14Um… these are Republicans. You were expecting something else, maybe? Why? A lifetime of watching them fumble up everything they touch has pretty much depleted any outrage I could feel. How many more examples will it take before we all realize it is THEY who do not love this country.
15I just wrote out a check to the US Treasury for my quarterly taxes. I wonder what would have happened if I sent them what I thought I owed them?
Or deducted what I believed was my fair share of Price squandered tax dollars?
16The actual price on Price’s junkets are double and triple the numbers that y’all are using here.
Reliable sources put those Price costs at well over $1 MILLION of taxpayer’s money, and that’s for just SIX MONTH’s worth of his flight costs (and he’s just one of many).
No definitive word yet on how much extra Price is spending on other perks for himself, family and friends.
You can, of course, multiply this by most of the other Trump officials now parasitizing OUR government.
Then we have the excessive taxpayer expenses associated with the Trump Klan itself, which are at least one hundred times more than Price’s.
All this in just eight months.
From the Rescumlikkkan dominated Kongress we hear only…crickets…about this, and those formerly all-important buzzwords: federal government deficits and fiscal responsibility.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/9/28/1702577/-Bombshell-Tom-Price-s-private-flights-have-cost-taxpayers-over-1-Million-since-May
“Earlier today the theoretically remorseful Trump Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price announced he would be paying back taxpayers for his use of chartered jets to traverse the country—only for it to be revealed that he would “reimburse” taxpayers only about $50,000 towards the $400,000 cost of those flights.
Within hours of that revelation POLITICO dropped yet another shoe: The costs racked up by Price’s penchant for private travel since he took the job earlier this year aren’t just $400,000. It turns out they’re well over double that.
The White House approved the use of military aircraft for multi-national trips by Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price to Africa and Europe this spring, and to Asia in the summer, at a cost of more than $500,000 to taxpayers.
The overseas trips bring the total cost to taxpayers of Price’s travels to more than $1 million since May, according to a POLITICO review. […]
Price’s wife, Betty, accompanied him on the military flights, while other members of the secretary’s delegation flew commercially to Europe.
17Why the Health and Human Services secretary required extensive military transport for overseas trips while other members of his staff flew on the same days to the same destinations on commercial airlines continues, even now, to be unspecified.
*** And Price’s added travel expenditures have, in a half year, already dwarfed his own prior demand that his agency cut its yearly travel budget by $660,000. Apparently he did not intend his own personal travel expenses to count.”
Anyone ever heard of drones? You know, those pesky cheap things that could deliver water, food, and medicine to every man, woman, and child on the island. But, of course, everything will be safe and protected from vandalism if PR just keeps it stored on the docks. A little innovative thinking wouldn’t go amiss here.
18Price is stepping down. Five will get you ten he will be firmly ensconced as a Big Pharma lobbyist in the halls of the capitol before you can blink yer eyes two times.
19Inferior Suckretary Stinky claims his chartered jet travel is above the law and if you don’t like it, tough noogies. He is impotent and acts the part.
20Re: Gov. Abbott
Remember that Rainy Day Fund is full of our money – not his.
21I wrote a tweet wondering if there is 1 single honest, decent, ethical snacilbupeR, even 1! I begged to be told of 1, just 1. Not several, not a majority. I asked the denizens of the Twitterverse to please name Just ONE. No answer. That is grim. Exceedingly grim.
22Good riddance to bad rubbish, proof that money doesn’t buy class or integrity this whole bunch.
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