TV’s, Cameras, a Lexus: We Paid For It!
WSJ: Taxpayers Footing Lawmakers’ Bills: And the worst part is it’s legal:
A Wall Street Journal review of thousands of pages of…records for 2008 expenses showed most lawmaker spending flowed to areas such as staff salaries, travel, office rent and supplies, and printing and mailing.
But it also turned up spending on an array of products, from…car leases and electronics to a high-end laptop computer and $22 cellphone holder…
The records show that some lawmakers spent heavily in the final months of the year to draw down allowances before the end of December — a time when U.S. households were paring their budgets and lawmakers were criticizing Detroit auto executives for taking private aircraft to Washington to plead their case for taxpayer funding.
How typical. I guess someone has to support the Political Class. Might as well be the People, right? Bastards!
