Ticket To Ride

 

1. "While some excursions were legitimate fact-finding missions, others appeared to have been little more than “pricey vacations” wrapped around speeches or seminars in which the lawmaker was joined by family members,...”

   Damn, these guys are acting like regular business people.

   I like the idea of avoiding any appearance of wrong doing, but I think people would bitch to high heaven if these guys paid for all this out of their own staff funds.

   Hey, I need to do a fact finding trip to Barbados to see if there are any salmon runs there that might compete with our runs here in the PacNorthwest.

   

   Posted by Rickvid       06/07/2006  at  01:55 PM  



2. Screw the fact finding missions - if politicians weren’t sucking up to corporations and lobbyists

   they’d be making more rational laws

   they’d be sucking down a hell of a lot less money [i.e. making politics once again a PUBLIC SERVICE]

   taxes would be lower - rather than having to finance all the politicians perks

   prices would be lower on most things as the corporations and lobbyists would not be hitting us with the bill for the money to curry favor with politicos

   Posted by wardmama4       06/08/2006  at  10:26 AM  

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