This was sent by one of my agents from my old office. More government abuses and stealing of tax payer money. It’s S.O.P. on Wall Street and in Washington. Also, did you read about Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain who was finally pushed out? While Merrill Lynch was going down the tubes as clients and shareholders were losing insane amounts of money he was paid around $70 million and he spent over $1,000,000 of company (shareholder) money to redecorate his personal office. I’ll find something and send to you. These elitists in both parties are running America like an empire and empires have a bad history. I really don’t care about the promotion of Newt here – the more power any of these people in government or business get, the more abuses occur – power corrupts. Let’s help our clients put their money in places where this cannot happen – direct investments.
Newt Gingrich, a Republican, served in the House from Georgia from 1978 and as House Minority Whip in 1989. He was Speaker of the House from 1995 to 1999. During that time he never made use of military air craft.
Nancy Pelosi, Democrat from California, current Speaker of the House. The Pentagon provides the House speaker with an Air Force plane large enough to accommodate her staff, family, supporters, and members of the California delegation when she travels around the country. But, Pelosi wants routine access to a larger plane. It includes 42 business class seats, a fully-enclosed state room, an entertainment center, a private bed, state-of-the-art communications system, and a crew of 16. Pelosi wanted “carte blanche for an aircraft any time”, including weekend trips home to San Francisco . Pretty nice but very expensive perk! Her Air Force C-32 costs approximately $15,000 an hour or approximately $300,000 per trip home.
And she has the guts to confront the Big Three CEOs for flying their corporate jets to Washington!
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