Cha-Ching
So … putting pencil to paper, the Trump administration is trying to make a new law that says he does not have to disclose how much it has cost the taxpayers for him to travel about like the Prince of Siam (I have no idea what that means but my grandmother used to say it all the time.) until after the 2020 election.
Let me give you an idea about how awful this is.
The government spent about $96 million on travel by Obama over eight years, according to documents obtained by the conservative group Judicial Watch. A report by the Government Accountability Office, which serves as the congressional watchdog on federal spending, estimated that Trump’s travel cost $13.6 million in just one month in early 2017. That total included the costs of travel for Secret Service and Defense Department personnel, and the costs of renting space and operating equipment such as boats and planes. If spending continued at that pace, Trump would have exceeded Obama’s total expenses before the end of his first year in office.
I added some stuff up for 8 years of this crap and – voila! – that’s one billion, three hundred and five million and some change. We could move the whole Trump family to Mars for that, which ain’t a bad idea.
And then you consider that most of that money goes directly to Trump for his hotels and golf courses and Mara Lago, and hair spray and what not, then steam starts coming out your ears.
And he’s still blaming Obama for everything.
To paraphrase Sen Everett Dirksen – A trillion here, a trillion there, pretty soon your talking about real money. Not sure how he’s going to make a law telling us its none of our business unless he’s appropriating those congressional duties in his fevered mind
Deficit sleepy eyed slumber
While were counting down the days to November’s great comeuppance. We should also take into account the House’s biannual tribute, spread out on bended knees with great flourish and generosity upon the steps of the Pentagon.
Tech industry layoffs rose 351 percent in 2019. That could be a sign a recession looming
According to the data, job cuts in December 2019 decreased for the second month in a row, to the lowest total since 27, 122 cuts were announced in July 2018. Yet for the decade of the 2010s, 2019 ranks as the fourth-highest year for job cut announcements.
https://www.alternet.org/2020/01/tech-industry-layoffs-rose-351-percent-in-2019-that-could-be-a-sign-a-recession-looming/
1IQ4.5 is running a criminal enterprise in plain sight abetted by the do nothing Republicons in Congress. Two articles of impeachment ready to be sent to the Senate, while Donnie commits two or three crimes a day or hourly. Lock and load Speaker Pelosi to bury Moscow Mitch in the reality of impeachable offenses committed by the ***king moron. Invite Congresswomen Waters, Wilson, Ocasio-Cortez, Jayapal, Omar and others to take a list to the public air waves, compile a list of Donnie’s self implicating tweets, and make it sexy for the media with video of Rudy G confessing for the ***king moron. Your work is not done until we the people are asking Moscow Mitch and Leningrad Lindsey what the hold up is on the Senate doing its Constitutional job. Take aim, Madame Speaker, you’ve got this.
2Meet some of the happy oligarchs who made $millions from IQ4.5’s craziness this week.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/01/09/meet-the-ceos-cashing-in-on-trumps-aggression-against-iran/
3I once tried to project the junket costs, as you’ve done, for a friend who drank the Kool-Aid. He wouldn’t believe that 45 would EVER spend more than President Obama. There’s no reasoning with these folks.
4A good question to pose to joe the delusional ( mcconnell becoming moderately cooperative -yeah right) ex senator from mastercard is a two parter.
51) Does he think that the obama/biden admin was right in ignoring all of the past criminal activity of the previous administration in the name of “moving forward” ( ignoring adage of the past shapes the future)?
This reinforced the reality of the law only being applicable to the poor the wealthy and powerful get immunity. Great way to undercut any respect for the law and concept of justice.
Affluenza written on a grand scale.
2) and will he propose to let all the criminals in the present administration skate on their crimes if he does get into the white house?
You can’t take the gold toilets with you.
6But Trump is gonna try.
I’d say this is good reason to get the House Oversight Committee subpeona machine in high gear. Add some articles of impeachment as well, say, 2-3 dozen?
7Rick@5, metal and cold, certainly not gold. The seats Donnie and his crew of criminals deserve also include room & board. And no, not at taxpayer expense. Not this time. Should be enough to RICO from their ill gotten gains to cover the costs of their 4x8s and the security they deserve.
8I want the House to keep piling up new articles of impeachment until they are taller than the creeper of the Senate.
9RAT45, in less than three years, by himself, has spent at least $130 million of your tax dollars on golfing excursions only.
Add in all the Nazi rallies, overseas junkets at trumpco resorts, plus the hundreds of trips by trump crime family members, and we’re around at least a half-billion/$500 million dollars, so far.
That’s more than FIVE times Obama’s total for all eight years. Prorated 8for8, it would be at least twelve times Obama.
So the jackass is ‘better’ in one measure.
Given another year, until Jan 2021, with intensifying electioneering, and it’ll be over a Billion buck$ pissed away. If he were to win, the sky is the limit for a second term.
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10Hey Slipstream, it’s 82 degreesF and mostly sunny out here in low rent redneck paradise. Warmer still mañana, probably have to fire up the aircon.
So it keeps coming back to whether Faux Corp viewers care.
How many times have we seen incidents that we thought sure to sink Cheatolini, only to watch in horror as nothing happened to slow the flow of garbage…
11Don’t forget him stiffing cities who have the misfortune to have him visit?
https://publicintegrity.org/politics/donald-trump-police-cities-bills-maga-rallies/
Maybe a way to seize campaign assets for failure to pay?
12San Antoine seems like a good place to start?
Sandridge: ten below here. Got a guest room?
13Trump today:
$450,000… my salary… usually it goes to drugs…
https://twitter.com/HKrassenstein/status/1215342732660613121
14The Prince of Siam was the story of “The King and I”
15So Mr. Feeble Fingers does not have to disclose anything about the costs of his constant vacationing at his various properties. I guess he has never heard of those outfits on the internet who automatically keep count of his outings, or that people with pencil and paper who can figure all of this out. He can look at the American people and grunt “neener-neener” all he wants but his butt is definitely in a sling on this one.
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