Thursday, March 21, 2013

Tax and Spend

Ohio pension board refuses to cancel taxpayer funded trip to Hawaii.
"In a feisty meeting Thursday, the School Employees Retirement System board rejected calls to cancel a trip to Hawaii and dismissed a proposal to limit trustees’ annual out-of-state travel expenses to $6,000 per board member."
There's always more stolen money for more trips. As reading my blog, the DDN follow ups:
"Members of the state pension board that is sending three members to a conference in Hawaii have made 67 other trips over the past four years to New Orleans, San Francisco, New York and other vacation destinations, a Dayton Daily News investigation found."
It' must be fun to spend other people's money like that. The DDN delivers again.
"The most frequent flyer is Barbra Phillips, a bus driver from Ashland city schools who made a dozen out-of-state trips at a cost of $49,553. A review of her travel receipts shows Phillips enjoys medium rare steaks, Starbucks lattes and crème brulee while she is on the road — expenses covered by the public pension system."
I often criticize the DDN, but I have to give them credit here.

Article claims that House Republican would "sharply cut spending". That's a lie. At no time will the government spend less one year than any year previously. The propaganda campaign is in high gear.

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