On 18 Jan 2005 09:07:41 -0800, "Too_Many_Tools"
wrote:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...shpost/a16499_

If you were Osama bin Laden (aka Osama bin Forgotten), would you be
tempted to crash the party?

A sidenote -
While this admisitration is unwilling to buy adequate armor for the
troops because of insufficient funding, they were able to find over $40
million for a week long party whose security costs are expected to be
at least double the party's cost. If you are a taxpayer like myself,
you are paying for the cost of security for this extraganza.

Which armor is the administration not purchasing? Please be specific
and current.

Btw..can we google back and look at your outrage about the Clintion
years and their spending on partys, travel and security?
How about a couple of examples for you to mull over....

The GAO said Clinton's six-nation trip to Africa from March 22 through
April 2 last year cost $42.8 million, not counting Secret Service
expenses, salaries of government workers involved and agency planning
expenses.

A total of 1,302 government employees from 12 federal agencies or
departments, including 16 members of Congress, accompanied Clinton to
Africa. The biggest share of the cost, $37.7 million, came from the
Defense Department's budget.

White House spokesman Joe Lockhart called criticism of the African
trip "paritulcarly shortsighted," saying the senators "are trying to
find a political issue to raise and are mission the point of the whole
trip."

The GAO report also found that:

-Clinton's five-day trip to Chile in April 1998 cost $10.5 million. It
included 592 officials from 13 federal agencies or departments.

-The China trip, from June 25 through July 3 last year, cost $18.8
million and included 510 officials from 11 agencies or departments."

"Clinton had big parties, tents on the White House Lawn, and huge
formal dinners in the White House all through his eight years in
office. He never stopped wining and dining the Washington press corps.
And all that was at taxpayer expensive. Clinton is also estimated to
have spent a good part of a billion dollars flying thousands of his
hangers-on around the world at taxpayer expense. Hillary had a
government plane to campaign in at taxpayer expense, even though she
held no public office."


Partisan hacks such as yourself really need to cover your asses better
before handing out such obvious opportunities to expose you as a fool.

Gunner

"At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child -
miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied,
demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless.
Liberalism is a philosphy of sniveling brats." -- P.J. O'Rourke