poor babys~

Kickity kick!

Elected officials, judges and any regulatory agencies should be banned from corporate jets.

Perhaps then they'd be more considerate of their constituents.

away until they quit Lying and do their jobs for the American People.

Where the fuck do they go?

balances go? Hmmm.

Although really it might be trips home to see their voters, er, corporate sponsors.

What need is there for members of Congress to fly first class?

Hint: The money saved is being penny-wise.

Might get a worthwhile Passengers' Bill of Rights out of their experiences.

Well a girl can hope, can't she?

I usually don't go after them like this, but fuck that.

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http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/lifestyle/2014/05/prince-william-flies-coach-on-american/

and Ron Dellums got in trouble for flying first class. Dude was way too tall to fly coach.

This is greatness.

For shits and giggles I just looked to see how much it cost
to fly 1st class from DC to CA

average price $2025.00
round trip

coach average cost $620.00

round trip

coach for domestic travel. But we are allowed to keep our frequent flyer miles so it is not hard to upgrade.

I have a relative that is a member of Congress and he flies to the State of Washington twice a week.

He buys coach but with his frequent flier miles upgrades to first class.

It's not costing taxpayers a dime for him to fly first class!

As usual, this is just PR stunt and has nothing to do with running this fucking country.

God, this shit just pisses me off....

You are asking me to accept that the travel allowance, $256,000.00<$0.10??? People who receive a quarter million dollars a year for travel and think nothing of it have everything to do with running the country. When you consider their "allowance" is equal to what 25 people receive in a year from SS it's not surprising they have little concept of how many of their constituents live.

God,that shit just pisses me off...

I can assure you the person I am talking about does not.

And he is well aware of how his constituents live. That is how he beat his opponent the first time he ran. He went door to door for months and talked to them.

And he still does it.

while serving in Congress. Maintain a residence in your district but move your family to Washington, or leave your family behind and maintain a residence in Washington. I would prefer to see the representatives keep their residence back home and only work 3 1/2 to 4 days a week in Washington. I feel this gives them more connection to their home district/state. I also would like to see them housed together in something like a Four Seasons and have no per diem except meals when traveling back and forth. I think if representatives /senators from both parties were forced to eat together and spend time together in hotel common rooms, we might have a little more collegiality. They would be living more like upper level sales people.

My relative actually sleeps in his office and showers in the gym. It was too expensive to rent an apartment and have a residence back home.

When he first got there, he shared an apartment with 3 other congressmen, but even that became expensive.

At one time he worked quite well with repugs...the last few years it has been almost impossible for him to find anyone with common goals on even uncontroversial items.

Sad.

amongst a bunch of rotten ones.

And tis better to be pissed off than...

I have seen him on the DC to Providence flight several times, always in coach.

Make sessions quarterly for a month at a time and make them stay in their states until then

afford an apartment on their $175,000 salary? Then, there are those corporate jets.....