This is QUEEN PELOSI'S NEW JET. And the Democrats talk about Palin's dresses?
Queen Pelosi wasn't happy with the small USAF C-20B jet, Gulfstream III, that comes with the Speaker's job ... OH, NO.
Queen Pelosi was aggravated that this little jet had to stop to refuel, so she ordered a Big Fat, 200-seat, USAF C-32, Boeing 757 jet that could get her arrogant zionist fat ass back to California without stopping. I understand that a former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich, flew commercial most of the time.
Many, many legislators walked by and grinned with glee as Joe informed everyone of what Queen Nancy's Big Fat Jet costs us, the hard working American tax payers, literally thousands of gallons of fuel every week.
Since she only works 3 days a week, this gas guzzling jet gets fueled and she flies home to California every Friday and returns every Monday, at a cost to the taxpayers (YOU and ME are those taxpayers!) of about $60,000, one way!
As Joe put it ..."unfortunately, we have to pay to bring her back on Monday night and that costs us another $60,000"
Taxpayers, that is $480,000 per month and that is an annual cost to us of $5,760,000.
No wonder she complains about the cost of this war. It might cramp her style and she is styling on my back and yours. I think of the military families in this country doing without and this woman, who heads up the most do-nothing Congress in the history of our country, keeps fueling that jet while doing nothing.
Queen Pelosi wants you and me to conserve our carbon footprint. She wants us to buy smaller cars and Obama wants us to get a bicycle pump and air up our tires. Who do these people think they are???
Their motto is ... Don't do as I do ... JUST DO AS I SAY!
If you think this is outrageous, forward it to all those on your email list! Keep in mind the figures above do NOT include the cost of plane or crew ... just the fuel!!! One has to wonder what the total package costs us?
And on top of that ... now she wants to tax our IRA's & 401K's!
The Speaker of the House began military air travel after 9-11. It was decided that since whoever holds that office is 2nd in the line of succession that it is a good idea to have him/her use military air travel. Plus there's probably some savings to the taxpayer to use a fleet and personnel that we are already paying for anyway rather than chartering a private jet.
John Boehner and Paul Ryan used them too, any outrage about that?
-- Edited by PowerStroker on Friday 18th of January 2019 05:35:47 PM
... By the way, didn't Mellania just take one of those to New York for no government purpose whatsoever?
You talking about @FLOTUS? The wife of #1?
You're kidding, right?
FIRST LADY MICHELLE Obama's family trip to South Africa and Botswana in June cost taxpayers well over $424,000, according to new accounting based on Air Force manifests obtained by Judicial Watch, a taxpayer watchdog group.
The use of Air Force aircraft alone for the June 21-27 trip cost $424,142, said the group, and that doesn't include the food, lodging, and ground transportation for the 21 family and staff members.
"Only an alert & knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial & military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods & goals, so that security & liberty may prosper together". Dwight D.Eisenhower.