9/27/17: We all know Republicans hate to see tax dollars wasted. Luckily, Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price is hard at work saving tax doll…
Damn!
Politico reveals that Price has a fondness for taking charter flights everywhere he goes. One charter took him to St. Simons Island, an exclusive Georgia resort, where he and his wife own property.
Another deposited Price in Nashville, Tennessee, so he could go have lunch with his son. The cost of that charter: $17,760. Cost of a commercial flight from D.C. to Nashville and back that same day: $333.
Another charter saved Price a grueling drive of thirty minutes from St. Simons to his next engagement.
Total cost to taxpayers for Price’s charters, so far:
$400,000.
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Dr. Tom Price: The man loves to fly. |
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9/28/17: Trump is ready to tout any good news he can. Today, he tweets: “GDP was revised upward to 3.1 for last quarter. Many people thought it would be years before that happened. We have just begun!”
Who it was who thought it might take years, one can only guess. The economy grew at an even better 3.5% in the third quarter of 2016.
Obama was in charge.
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9/29/17: Trump & Co. spend the day grading their own homework. Recovery in Puerto Rico is coming along fine! Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Elaine Duke tells reporters, “I’m very satisfied.” It’s been “a good news story in terms of our ability to reach people and the limited number of deaths that have taken place.”
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“This is an island surrounded by water, big water, ocean water.”
President Trump
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Trump assures reporters, as with healthcare, that helping victims of natural disasters is harder than anyone knew. Did they realize Puerto Rico was in the middle of an ocean! Well, it is!
“This is an island surrounded by water, big water, ocean water,” he adds, like a geography expert talking to three-year-old’s.
In the afternoon he takes questions from reporters. “Puerto Rico, as you know, has been going really well,” he claims. “The loss of life, it’s always tragic. But it’s been incredible the results we’ve had with respect to loss of life. People can’t believe how successful that has been, relatively speaking.”
“This is a ‘people are dying’ story.”
The mayor of San Juan does an interview with CNN and begs for additional help. “Well maybe from where she’s standing it’s a good news story,” the mayor says in response to Asst. Secretary Duke.
When you’re drinking from a
creek, it’s not a good news story. When you don’t have food for a baby, it’s
not a good news story. When you have to pull people down from buildings – I’m sorry,
that really upsets me and frustrates me. Dammit, this is not a good news story.
This is a “people are dying” story. It’s a life-or-death story.
It might have been cool to have Secretary Price fly to Puerto Rico to help. That man loves to fly!
Alas, Price gets canned after Politico reveals he has been taking unnecessary military flights to
cities like Geneva, Berlin, and Tokyo. This brings the total cost to taxpayers for his joyriding to just under
$1,000,000.
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